It Grows Like This

Sure, Gura's title question was rhetorical, but I thought I'd answer anyway. Our garden was re-designed a few months back, and everything is finally filling in. I'm surprised at how much pleasure I'm taking in it; every day new things pop open. A gifted photographer could make so much more of this than I'm able to, but I thought I'd share some of my fave flora anyways.

Here's one of the espaliered apple trees. It will bear many a fuji apple at some point. This is good, since the girls are more than capable of eating, collectively, a dozen apples a day. The next picture is one of the flowers in the butterfly garden. How much would Mariah like that? She's so jealous right now:



There are a bunch of these whateverbells (I made that name up. If that's not what they're called, it should be) in the front yard. The other picture doesn't do justice to this weird flowering plant. It's so interesting, what with the extra-glossy leaves, white blossoms and then the clusters of little blue ones, too:



Here's my favorite. My only formal request for the garden was a magnolia tree. And here's the first chunky ol' flower. Can't wait 'til it opens up:



My parsley and basil are out of control. The basil is almost waist-high at the moment, which means I need to make...bruschetta? Rosemary, two kinds of sage, thyme, and some other herbs are also a-growing:



I love this spiky, reddish plant. There are a couple of these; they look like they'd kill you if you fell on them. And, finally, one of the new tomato plants:



This concludes the Nesting Ground Garden Tour. Which, I'm fully aware, was just as exciting as my homemade paper wallet.