Pacific Northwest Gardening: Garden Pics: Braving the HEAT to Save our Blooms!!, 1 by Rarejem

Rarejem wrote:
Lordy, behinder than ever!!!!!

I can't even comment on an ounce of stuff that I would like to! All the pics are just wonderful!

Highlights that can't go without coment:

Judi, your "cat in heat" had me laughing so hard I had tears coming out of my eyes!

RC, Totally drooling over your beautiful coreopsis still! My "moonbeam" which is a darker yellow than it is supposed to be is several years old and jumped the path last year to start a lovely new batch on the other side. The only other coreopsis I have had luck overwintering is one that I started by seed, and it is lovely, but appears to be quite agressive where it is planted (rich and wet). It is what I have attached the pic of.

Jan, I have seen deer eat tomatoes, and the rotton things take just one bite or two, and then move on to the next one, but

Katye, I would believe the dog theory too. Learned the hard way that you don't teach them (actually, you don't even HINT) where the goodies might come from, because they have NO problem with picking their own. Blueberries, check. Tomatoes, check. Strawberries, check. Grapes, check. The tree fruit is the only safe stuff, and my puppy still came back from the vegie garden with a tummy ache the other day from spending too much time under the plum tree.

Ok, well, I was going to show a pic of the coreopsis, but can't find it to save my life, so will post a frog instead. Little cutie that scared me to death the other day.