Wheat Grass

This is wheat grass growing in my backyard.  It is a perennial in Colorado.  I plan on drying the wheat chaffs to use along with my dried hops in the Wild Grain Soap Bar for my Natural Soap line.

Tomatoes

You can see that my Roma tomato's are coming on, so I am pleased.  I also planted San Marzano, Yellow Pear, Sweet 100's,  and  Patio

tomatoes.

Rain, rain and more rain

We are getting a lot of rain here in the Denver area.  I took a picture from my front porch looking out to the street.  I wanted you to get a feel for how it was pouring.  Now this doesn't go on all day, it's usually in the afternoon, but it's a good amount.  Don't know if you can see the water running down the sides of the street or not.  On the bright side, the plants are LOVING it.   There are so many wonderful nutrients in rain water.  The weather people are saying that it should subside tomorrow evening, meaning one more afternoon of rain.  What I find amazing is when I get up at 5:30 in the morning, I can hear my neighbors sprinklers ch..ch..ching along.  What is wrong with these people?  Don't they know how/when to shut off their sprinklers?  They will be the same people that wonder why they have mushrooms coming up in their yards.

FRONT PLANTER

 
These tall flowers are in the front yard by the split rail fence.  Yellow coreopsis in the background on the left,  then red hot pokers, two different colors of delphiniums followed by daylilies.  When the sunlight hits these flowers they seem to sparkle.

Apache Plume

What a terrific perennial. 
I love this Apache Plume
in the middle of my Stella d'oro
day lilies (which, by the way,
bloom all summer).  It is such 
an underused shrub. You only 
need one, it's a show stopper, 
and this is only it's second year.

Garden Goodness

Freckles romaine, spinach, kale, swiss chard and snap peas from the garden.  It can't get any fresher or faster to the table than that.
Bon Appetite

Summer is here!!!

Welcome to my backyard. 
It's going to be 90 degrees
today. Everything 
is watered, the poppies are
blooming, the veggies are
growing... life is good.