Summertime at Jello Mold Farm

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 Wednesday: 12 Views of a Summer Morning at Jello Mold Farm

Wordless Wednesdays: 12 Views of Love-in-a-Mist

This Is June

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

“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

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

“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

Bloomin’ Summer

Here’s what’s blooming on a recent neighborhood walk.

Love-in-a-mist

Crocosmia

Purple poppy

 

Spotted lily

Desert candle

I am continually astounded by the beauty and diversity that surrounds me.

“Each time I go outside the world is different.  This has happened all my life.”
     — Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser, Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry