Shut up Bush Babe!
I think I have been prattling on too much lately… words, words, words. Blah, blah, blah! I’m quite sick of the sound of myself.
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So, instead, to give our eyes a break, I give you…
Spring at Granite Glen!
Our peach tree came out spectacularly a week or so ago…
it looks pretty ordinary most of the year… 
and then, for a couple of weeks 
it reminds me why we have kept it smack in the middle of the wide open backyard here…
Of course, while we were away at bull sales recently, it rained. Poured. And every single bloom is gone. Lucky I took some photos, or you would never have believed me!
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BB Question: What’s your garden doing at the moment?
17 Comments
Leslie
Oh how very lovely.
Ok – you’ve spurred me on. I’ll go right now and buy the latest kit from DSP and scrap my magnolia tree from outside my window. 🙂
The plumcot blossoms were brilliant! For about a week, until the bad windstorm…
Debby
My garden is dying.
jeanie
Oh isn’t it beautiful? Brings back memories of picking up rotten peaches stung by flies every season…
Portia
We are getting to the end of growing season. The tomatoes and zucchini are still growing but at first frost they will be gone. Last Thursday I took in the last of the green beans and peppers and pulled the plants. The lettuce was washed out by the rain last weekend.
I’ll miss the fresh veggies until next year. It’s just not the same when you have to buying them.
Muddy Boot Dreams
Hey BB we are on opposite sides of the earth. So sadly we are saying goodbye to Summer, today is the first day of Autumn here. Goodbye to all the flowers, and the green grass.
We will have to live vicariously through your blog for the next few months. At least until March, then we will see some growth again.
Jen
Kate
Beautiful pictures!! It’s fall here. All the leaves are changing and falling off. It’s so beautiful this time of year. My garden is dead. It frosted early this year so everything pretty much died. But it’s okay, i love fall. Unfortunately the two best seasons in Utah, spring and fall, last about a week. Then summer and winter last FOREVER. At least it makes me really appreciate spring and fall while they last! thanks for the pics! Enjoy your spring 🙂
Wrensong Farm
I love how as I am heading into Fall you’re heading into Spring….keeps things in perspective. My garden is still producing but is tapering off, the trees, blueberry bushes are starting to change color. The rains have definitely started. Thanks for posting some beautiful Spring pics!
Jenni
Goodness, if you’ve been prattling on lately, I don’t know what you’d call what I do sometimes. (Okay, most times.) These are beautiful photos, though!
Right now my sunflowers are all looking pretty scraggly after the full week of rain we had week before last. I don’t think they’ll quite recover. Those are the wild sunflowers. The crop sunflowers all around us are looking quite lovely, though. I wonder when they will be ready to be harvested. I should ask our neighbor down the road since I know he owns one of the fields. Maybe I could even get him to give me a heads up so that I can get pictures of them harvesting. I don’t even know what that looks like or entails with sunflowers.
Jayne
Fingers crossed you’ll get some fruit!
steviewren
As usual, lovely pictures!
Lynette Weir
Hello Bush Babe!
As a ‘lurker’ this is my first comment to you! Found you through a link somewhere else – not sure where…
My garden is a native garden with the addition of a poinciana tree – because in northern NSW you just HAVE to have one of these – lovely summer shade to sit under on those hot muggy summer days.
My flannel flowers have started to flower, the kangaroo paws are covered in long stems of flowers, grevilleas for the birds and just coming along into bud and flower are the powderpuff lilly pillies and those once a year gorgeous native rhododendrons!
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I am enjoying your stories and photos!
Lyn
I'm Julie
Either way, BB, words or pictures… it’s all lovely. Can’t wait to see pics of that tree laden with fruit!
Here in Southern California, my summer garden is dying and looking pathetic. But in a month or so, will all be replanted with autumn/winter veggies. We are very lucky to have mostly year-round gardens here, minus the really hot spells in August/September.
Alison
Oooohhhh they are gorgeous photos. I especially love the one 4th from last. Even the tiny strand of spiders web(?) is stunning.
Our garden is very green and pleasantly self sustaining at the moment!
Bush Babe (of Granite Glen)
Alison – thanks, I love that one too!
Julie – Jeanie has just informed me that the tree is an almond tree. So I have no idea what the heck I’m talking about! The flowers were real purty though… I shall take my inspiration from you to prompt a vege garden at GG!
Lynette – welcome, welcome, welcome!! Thanks for visiting and ‘coming out’ in the comments dept! Love the native garden and ADORE the poinciana… *sigh* miss my city-planted poinciana greatly. We have frosts here and they don’t like frosts. *sigh!*
Steviewren – you are too kind darlin’!
Jayne – see Julie’s answer… have yet to sight fruit that haven’t been attacked by birds… it’s living on borrowed time this tree!!!
Jenni – I look forward to hearing you ‘prattle’ and seeing your photos of sunflower harvesting…
Wrensong Farm – thanks! PS Are you related to Steviewren?? Just askin!
Kate – I too adore Autumn and the season change… PS Love that you had a great Aussie-experience lately! No we aren;t all like that – there are plenty of ratbags, but the good ‘uns are great, great people!! Heh.
MBD – I love the contrasts of all our worlds. That’s what is so intriguing about blogging, I reckon. Same but different!!
Portia – you are adding to my inspiration to try the vege patch again!!! *Deep breath!* I can do it!!!
Leslie – I’m coming over to see how you went!!!
Hugs all for making the effort to comment on my blossom post!!!
BB
A Novel Woman
Ah, lucky you looking forward to Spring. Here in Quebec the air has turned nippy noodles, to quote my youngest, with a hint of wood smoke. The maples are turning red and gold and orange, and I heard the geese overhead this week, a sure sign of Fall as they make their way south for the winter. If only we could all do the same….I heard we’re in for another brutal winter with as much or more snow than last year. At least I can read your blog and escape that way!
Pencil Writer
Love the flowering tree whether almond or peach or whatever. Great photos (we’ve come to expect that, of course!)
My “garden” is mostly in pots (or the compost pile) and is beginning to wane. I need to harvest my basil, chop it, add a little water and freeze portions in ice cube trays (which I yet need purchase) and then pop them out and seal them in ziplock plactic bags to put in the freezer so I may have “nearly fresh” basil when I want to cook later on! (Got the idea from Martha Stewart’s food magazine.) Suppose I could include some of the oregano plants, but I don’t know if I’ll bother…they wintered over last year, so here’s hoping they’ll do it again! The jalapeno plants are still producing HOT peppers, the shallots are still taking care of themselves–as they have for years–out in the garden spot, recently flowered and will most likely divide and continue on. The green leaves make for lovely flavor on backed chicken. My children like it and when much younger asked for the “chicken with grass on top.” It apparently did look like I’d cut the grass and sprinkled it over the chicken breasts . . .
Picked a tomato today and hope the rest will mature soon. (I imagine they will. It still makes it up to 80 degrees or so during the day and has only been down to about 57 degrees at night so far.)
Fall is one of my favorite seasons, though I like it better in Utah where there are more apparent color changes in the hardwoods in the valleys there, as I recall. Spring is my other favoirte season, so I envy you there, BB.
Pony Girl
There is an awful tree bush thing growing over my patio stairs. I have no idea what it is, the needles on it look like some kind of pine, but in the fall, it gets juicey red berries, like huckleberries. Then they drop all over my patio and I have to crunch through them! And their smashedness gets tracked everywhere! I try to rake the mess….it just mashes them more. It’s an awful inconvenience here every fall. Sigh…