Well, I’m tuckered in tbis heat, but I snapped a few shots of our Garden Guru’s garden, which is pretty spectacular.
Our neighbor is growing tomatoes, shallots, onions, garlic, zucchine (zucchina is singular, zucchine is plural but what the heck, it’s in the language now as zucchini so zucchini it is) grapes, oranges, kumquats, grapefruit, kiwis, you name it.
There are zukes down in those leaves and we have eaten several already. Zuke fritters, zuke and potato pancake, zuke soup, you name it. Mama will put in the short recipes one day, with my help.
OUR tiny patch, up above, with marigolds to buddy the tomatoes. And on the far left, Japanese shisu, which has taken over the garden! I mean, how much sushi can you eat? (No limit for me – scratch that black wrapping and give me the sashimi!
And we have a new rose, sort of purple, whose name is Bossuet Aigle de Meaux…go figure on that one. We haven’t done our homework yet on weird rose names.
Oh, there is every summer the Bisky Boo as he is called…popping out Catalan-colored blooas until December!
Et voilà – the art of the garden (hey, the plants do it ALL!).
That is a garden to envy!!
Love your hibiscus plant,. I haven’t seen one in that pretty color before.
Well, merci, it is Catalan-colored or the colors of the AS Roma soccer team, haha.
WOW, that’s a very impressive garden Loulou. Keep cool!
The gardener/guru has lots of green thumbs, whatever that means.
WOW!! That is spectacular. And I thought my hubby had a nice garden with his raised beds made of cinder blocks. XO
IT IS BEAUTIFUL, and the raised beds make for no backaches. He might enjoy the book How to Have a Green Thumb Without An Aching Back by Ruth Stout, a marvelous book that mama gardens by…everything in our garden is deep in chopped up straw called chaunvre de paillie…it’s HEMP! Not a weed.
Our experience with zucchini indicates that they are NEVeR EVER singular ! But what a beautiful – organized garden ! We hope you and Mama and Papa and all your friends are surviving the heat. Where are the donks >
Haven’t seen them for ages. Mama will inquire…we miss them,too.
Mother Nature is quite the artist, Loulou!
Oh, that’s a lovely observation. Our neighbor is amazing and boy, do we profit from that.