2013 Year in Review

Highlights of the 2013 gardening year:

Hundreds of Cedar Waxwings filling a half dozen trees before the gardening season begins.

JUNE

 Flooding near Bow River in Calgary. Bad for homeowners near the river, but the rainfall was good for the garden.

AUGUST

Making juice from neighbour's "prairie cherry" trees (not sure what variety) 

 Bumper crop of raspberries. The patch is finally established. The right amount of periodic rains, soil enrichment, pruning and no hail were all factors.

 Red cabbage in foreground.

 Beans. Rhubarb division/transplant.

A tangle of herbs: Chervil, chives, sage, mint, cilantro. This unplanned companion planting (I let the annual seeds grow where they chose).

Most noteworthy was no hail this year!

Beans are now pulled, delphinium and raspberries chopped down for end of the summer.

Mystery Flower

My mom sent these photos of a mystery flower in her garden in southern Saskatchewan. It is a perennial that someone gave it to her a few years ago, but she doesn't know what it is.  If anyone has any ideas what it might be, let me know!

It is the one with white flowers on the ends of tall stems with the leaves bunched up at the base of the plant.

 

Photo of the plant when young.