Looks like my Cousin Kim’s plants are quite happy & healthy in their handmade flowerpots… and a mug! Probably enjoying some time outside with the rain coming down too! Thanks for sharing Kim!

A beautiful afternoon setting up in the garden… yes, the same garden as this weekend’s ART IN THE GARDEN. I got my tent & shelves set-up… I will bring all of my pots later. But while I was there, it stuck me how beautiful the garden location is… Mother Nature’s artwork even before the weekend’s art arrives!!! Such a great setting for an art fair… thank you Tom & Amy for hosting in your yard full of your own curated art collection!

With featured garden art by Kristin Conneely @kdconneely & Retta Hentschel @windowsido.

It’s kinda crazy my how fast the flowers on my purple hyacinth bean vine actually transform into these beautiful pods!!! It seems like it was overnight! And what a wonderful aubergine color… before they dry to brown & it’s time to collect the seeds to grow again next year!

Sweet banana peppers & one imposter! I love having friends
with gardens that have too many veggies! Thanks for sharing your harvest Cory!

It’s that time of the summer… when my purple hyacinth bean vines start blooming! So easy to grow, so easy to collect seeds for next year! You get treated with nice green leaves, purple flowers floating off graceful stems…. followed by shiny aubergine seed pods. Such a fun plant… so easy to care for… grows so fast. Makes me smile every day!

Look at me gloating just a little… perhaps “the curse” has been broken?
Too soon to tell… but enjoying them in my garden now!!!

More rain this morning… more colors & textures from my back porch!

Some fun flowers blooming in the front garden currently.
My friends call the “Bears Breeches.” Not sure if that’s correct…
but they’re very cool nonetheless!!!

For those who have “followed“ for years… you’ll know about my never-ending quest grow my favorite Black-Eyed Susan’s in my garden. Everyone claims that they are the easiest flower to grow & they take over quickly. However… I’ve tried several times in different places… new plants, seeds, divisions from friends, over & over again… but to avail. Until now… so excited that these cuties are now blooming in my garden… and they survived the winter & came back this year!!! Not to gloat… but perhaps the “curse” has been broken???

Garden fun!!! Kristy & Matthew in Stevens Point, Wisconsin are participating in their local garden walk this weekend. And featuring a few of my ceramic novelties in their garden. Always fun to see some pottery, birdhouses & rusty metal popping up amongst the flowers! Thanks for sharing Kristy… and have fun showing off your garden!!!