Summertime at Jello Mold Farm
June 28, 2016
Garden shed at Jello Mold Farm
Here are some more photos from my June visit to Jello Mold Farm. Lots of gorgeous flowers in bloom. I never tire of the beauty held in these fertile acres.
Hydrangeas
Poppies
Dahlias (I put my hand in the picture to give you some idea of the size of these giants)
Greenhouses
Crocosmia
Another view
Love-in-a-mist
Lupine
Inside a greenhouse
Wordless Wednesdays: 12 Views of Love-in-a-Mist
June 24, 2015
This Is June
June 10, 2014
Love-in-a-Mist
“This is June, the month of grass and leaves. . . . I feel a little fluttered in my thoughts, as if I might be too late. Each season is but an infinitesimal point. It no sooner comes than it is gone. It has no duration. It simply gives a tone and hue to my thought.”
— Henry David Thoreau, from his journals
The Earth at Jello Mold Farm Laughs in Flowers
July 23, 2013
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
— Claude Monet
Truck in the flower fields, Jello Mold Farm
There was so much to see at Jello Mold Farm at this time of year. It’s a busy time for flower growers. These Skagit Valley flower fields were bursting with exuberance and beauty. Zinnias, dahlias, sunflowers, bee balm . . . they all shout “summer!”
Zinnias
The blushing pink of Dahlia ‘Cafe au Lait’
Beds of Scabiosa ‘Dark Knight’
Scabiosa ‘Fama White’ contrasts nicely with the ‘Dark Knight’
Harvested sunflowers at the start of the trek to the warehouse
Bee balm, Monarda ‘Raspberry Wine’
View from the end of the row
Sneezeweed Helenium
Cutting raspberry canes for filler in bouquets
Chestnuts for texture
Seed pods, love-in-a-mist
Love-in-a-mist
And always, flower gardens remind me of time passing . . . for everything there is a season.
The last sweet peas
And the last poppies
Walking the Color Wheel: Seattle’s Summer Blues
July 26, 2012
The blue-ribbon days of summer!
Hydrangeas in blues and purples
A bush of blue hydrangeas
Garden art: blue plate in a garden gate
I love the blue stems of sea holly
Borage
Nothing but blue skies (Just kidding — this is Seattle, after all!)
Chihuly Garden and Glass sculpture brings this quote to life: “There is no blue without yellow and without orange.” (Vincent Van Gogh)
Blue window trim, Post Alley
Love-in-a-mist
Sweet blueberries, just picked
Sandra Cintro’s Encontro das Aguas (Encounters with Water) at the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle
A Chaos of Beauty
June 28, 2012
“What a chaos of beauty there is upon a June morning.”
— Louise Beebe Wilder, Colour in My Garden
And here are a few snapshots taken out of the chaos of color and beauty in Seattle right now:
Diaphanous pink Shirley poppy and bud
Pink Shirley poppies
White love-in-a-mist
Blue love-in-a-mist
Globes of allium
Allium
Clematis (I think?)
Foxglove
Foxglove and window curtains
