End of summer

Well fall's here. So ends the emergency watering season and time to get down to work! The next few months should be full of weeding, transplanting, uprooting, planting, planning and putting beds to rest. Not to mention development of the body overseeing the gardens. If I haven't previously mentioned it, the gardens have expanded to about 10,000 square feet! And some areas are not looking too hot at the moment.

As we move into fall, here are a few flattering photos of the garden from this summer! Hope it serves as inspiration as we roll up our sleeves and get all the gardens up to snuff!

These look like a bouquet together!

Here are some black hollyhocks that I planted a few years ago. I bought the seeds from the UK on Ebay and they finally came up this year!

Rock Garden

For a while my little neighbour Hannah had been asking if she could help in the gardens. So one day in June she and her mom came down and we all planted the rock garden together. She was a great help and it was a fun project!

On a different note, I received some sad news today though: someone is planning to come and take the large boulders and place them in a botanical garden. I'm so sad! What about our Downtown Eastside gardens?? I'll have to import some more boulders from somewhere! I had already been thinking we needed more, not less! We've build the garden plan around the current boulders (there's one here and one halfway up the block), and I'm so disappointed! Oh well, maybe it won't happen. And if it does, we'll roll with the punches.

Here's the rock garden in it's beginning stages.

The hens and chicks bloomed and they were beautiful. I'm really looking forward to seeing the rock garden filled in next year!