I’m taking a break but will re-post some favorite shots while I’m gone. We’re approaching lavender season in Sequim and our annual festival is next month. This is one of my favorite lavender farms, Jardin du Soleil.
Category: Flowers
Color
I’m taking a break but will re-post some favorite shots while I’m gone. This is the Skagit Valley during its Tulip Festival in spring.
Berries to be
It’ll be a few months but we have blackberries to look forward to.
The everything store
Sunny Farms is something of an “everything” store. In addition to the nursery and farm store, there are groceries, a small deli, butcher, produce, and supplements. This time of year the nursery comes to life.
The area in front of the store is packed with life: hanging baskets, flowers in small and large containers, shrubs, and trees. I find it hard to shop there this time of year without bringing home some sort of “growie” that I hadn’t intended to fall in love with. Next door in the nursery are veggie starts and a variety of deciduous, evergreen, and fruiting trees and bushes.
It doesn’t help those with weak will that they make their stock appealing. It’s dazzling after a long winter.
Native bloomer
Red-flowering currant is just beginning to bloom. It’s one of the first native shrubs to herald spring.
Daffodils!
After we moved here our neighbors asked if we would like some daffodil bulbs. My “yes!” was met with a bag stuffed with hundreds of tiny bulbs. The neighbors have since moved. I can’t think of a nicer gift than to remember kind and generous neighbors when their flowers bloom. Thank you, Miriam and Gene!
La Vie en rose
Wild nootka roses are usually in full bloom by late June or early July. If they find a good spot they can grow like weeds. But by August they’re mostly gone and the hips that follow the blooms begin to swell and ripen. By September the bushes are covered in bright red rose hips. This year we’ve noticed late blooms. One here, one there. Not a lot of them, but still…enough for a few last satisfying sniffs of one of my favorite summer scents. The beautiful weather we had over the last couple of months must have something to do with it.