Photos from the Garden

This year is my first attempt at planting a garden. While most of the flower beds are a work in-progress (or work-in planning), there are several containers and two raised beds. Honestly, I was scared to death I would kill any vegetables planted, but everything seems to be hanging in there, despite this heat wave.

I love looking out at the containers on the porch. But, I could do without watering them every day-where oh where is the rain?

Here are some photos from the first week in July.

Tiger Eye Rudbeckia-this one is planted in a container and there are two more in the bed in front of the house. So bright and cheerful!

Raised Bed # 1-includes tomatoes, peppers, melons, onion, summer squash, herbs, lettuce, marigolds, and nasturtium.

Raised Bed #2-pretty much the same plants as Bed #1 (you can see the Rudbeckia, coneflowers, and daylilies in the background)

Sugar Baby melon

Yellow squash

Nasturtiums

Carnival bell pepper plant--these were grown from seed, and currently are less than a foot tall. I'm not very optimistic, but at least one of the plants has flowers, so maybe there are peppers in the future.

This basil plant seemed to grow four inches overnight! At least something here likes the heat.

"Hot Papaya" coneflower-these were too fun not to pass up!

One of the flower pots-the marigolds and snapdragons were both grown from seed. The violets were a freebie on Mother's Day from a plant nursery near Sutton's Bay, Michigan. The snappies turned out to be a very tall variety...

I don't remember the name of this plant, but what a vibrant pink color!

Pink Lemonade petunias

Purple petunias-I love petunias because they attract hummingbirds.

Other plants not pictured include daylilies in the flower bed in front of the Hot Papaya Coneflowers, a big metal container planted with carrots, and a small pot of parsley.