Welcome to 2011

YES, I am backkkkkkkkkkkkkk.  Been a long Winter, my beloved Patriots fizzled in the end again, been in mourning that, time to get over it!!  OK, enough said about the Patriots.

Diane and I spent some time today at the Gardens.  Below you will see a host of pictures from our efforts.  Most of them won't mean anything to my blog readers, but they do help us memoralize our garden season from year to year.

Happy reading and please do come read as my blog will be updated regularly now.

Sunflowers blooming

Sunflowers growing in the garden, not mine or Diane's, but  one of the other gardens.  This must be 15 feet tall!  The little birds love the sunflowers.

Gloria, this post is at your request

Here is the long view of both Diane's garden (left) and my garden (right) this morning. If you click twice on the pictures, you will get a better view of what is actually there.

Not a lot going on today as far as new flowers open, so I thought I would show you some of the other gardens

As you look through the pictures in the previous post, you can see what other gardeners are doing with their gardens.  You can see how big the raised garden beds are getting compared to last time I showed you them (see the June 20th post).

Views of other gardens in our Community Garden

Here are many different gardens today in my community garden.  The top two of of some pretty flowers in one garden, the white one is a gladious and the purple is a Hibiscus.  One garden has a beautiful little rock garden going on, that big purple plant is a purple basil!  The one near the garden hose (without the flowers in front) is what I call the corn field.  Each year, corn is planted, but no one gets ears.  Our summers are just not hot and long enough (even though today you couldn't tell me that as we are in day 3 of a projected 7 day 90+ high humidity heat wave).

Garden View

This picture is of the garden right next to Diane. This gentleman is a good friend and a good garden neighbor of Diane's.

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Raspberries are Ripe!

I just love the close up pictures of the Raspberies at the Community Garden.  They are not in either my daughter's garden or mine.












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Asiaiatic Lilies in a fellow gardener's garden

I wish these beautiful orange Asiaiatic Lilies were in my garden.  These pictures make me want to order these for my garden next year.  So, so very pretty.

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Raised box gardens

This is one of those half barrels in which we are suppose to grown mint.  Mint is so invasive, it is not suppose to be planted in individual gardens.  Unfortunately, this is a rule that is not enforced.  There are 2 of these for the mint.

There are 4 of the raised box gardens at our community garden.  We even have a raised box for a blind gardener.

Pictures from other gardener's at the community garden

This is called tickseed.  The flowers are a brilliant bright yellow that rise high above the foliage on long single stems. Each plant having numerous blooms that start in may and last well into august. It normally takes tickseed 2 years to get established.  Tickseed is a very easy plant to grow. It can tolerate drought as well as prolonged periods of moisture. It grows in partial shade to full sun in various soil types. The foliage makes an attractive ground cover throughout the year and the flowers add beauty to any flower arrangement.

This is called an Asiatic Lily.  An Asiatic lily is a lily in the genus Lilium. Plants in this genus are sometimes referred to as “true lilies,” reflecting the fact that they are botanically classified as lilies, rather than just being called “lilies” by people who are not knowledgeable about horticulture. True lilies are bulbs, and they have fleshy stems, blade-like leaves, and trumpet shaped flowers. The Asiatic lily is among the easiest to grow.

This is a container of Cornflowers one of the gardener's is growing.  They are a pretty sight.

This picture is a large established Lavender plant.  The lavender plant will produce long-lasting, fragrant flowers in the summer months. The purple-blue blooms, for which lavender is named, will grow on sturdy stalks up to 4' tall depending on the variety. Lavender flower pollen is mildly allergic to some people although this is rare. Bees and butterflies find the aromatic blooms attractive.
 

View of the garden looking North from my plot

This is the view from standing in my garden looking North.  You can see the dividers between the gardens.  It was a cloudy day.

A picture of me and a garden friend

This is me and one of my best garden buddies from the garden.  This is me after 4 hours of weeding.

How close is Logan Airport to our Garden

It is so close that we can see the control tower at the airport from the garden, have a look. The control tower is the only building you can see in this picture, dead center.

Skyline of Boston from the Garden

This picture shows a decent picture of the skyline of Boston.  It was an overcast day today as we are expecting more storms to blow through the region this afternoon.  If you click on the picture, you will see the brown building in the center, with the top that slopes, and has the straight up sides, that is the building I work at in Boston.

Pagoda's on the Entrance of our Community Garden

There is a Pagoda on both ends of the Community Garden.  They are planted with purple grapes, which actually gave fruit last Summer.  You can see the low 4-foot fence, which does nothing to deter the thieves who constantly come over the fence to take the gardners veggies each Summer.  Most frustrating.

An Overview of the Community Garden

There are 42 garden plots in our Community Garden.  The ones that are along the fence are 8x20 feet, the inner plots are about 15x15 feet.  My garden is the one way down in the corner shown here.  My daughter's plot is the one just in the front of the fence plot as shown here.  Not everyone has fully planted their gardens yet. 



Thought you would enjoy seeing what this Community Garden is like.  This is only a small portion of the entire garden.