Welcome to my Starting a garden Post #21 🌻🙂 I always like to welcome you to my garden with some flower pictures 😍
Today I wanted to share some 2 color Rudbeckia. Some Rudbeckia has two colors - this one is Red on Red.
Here is a Yellow on Red Rudbeckia.
Its interesting that some of these yellow Rudbeckia have a brown accents while the others on the SAME plant do not 🤔
I included this photo because I thought it was neat that the leaves under the opening bloom look like a green bloom. A flower under the flower that is coming 😎
We have a lot of Queen Anne's lace. I took this series of photos that shows how they open up.
Closed.
Opening.
Full open.
Past its bloom. Going to seed.
Now into the garden...
Seems all of the country is struggling with hot weather and lack of rain. My peppers are loving it 😋 This is a bell pepper.
I also have some Jalapenos.
And some mini bell peppers. All of these were planted from seed indoors this early spring/winter. All the seeds were saved back from peppers we consumed. I should clarify they are loving the sun, they are also loving getting watered almost every day 🙁
Why do we garden?
My wife and I started a garden this year. We moved to the country after living in the city for all of our time together. My wife has never lived in the country. I lived in the country until I was 13 but haven't since. And by the way that has been a long time ago 😊
This weekend we had some help in the garden. Some second cousins (children of my wife's cousin) over. They loved the garden. There are actually three kids in this picture two standing and one on my wife's hip.
The kids loved picking some produce and then helping prepare it for our meal. We love gardening because of this connection to the earth, to our food, to our community by sharing the harvest.
And I suppose the connection to my childhood. Both my parents grew up on farms and all their kids (my siblings) were born on the farm. None of us kids farmed for a living after growing up.
Thanks for visiting my garden this week 🌻☮️🙂
Bonus pics:
Lovely sunset over the Adirondack mountains.
Looking the opposite way, the sunset reflected on the low cloud cover on the eastern horizon.