The solstice has come and summer begins in the garden. I love watching the transition from the early Spring plants and flowers, with their vibrant greens and fresh new growth, over to the flowers and colors of Summer, brighter colors and yellow-green foliage.
Summer also brings the fruits and vegetables!
Window hostas 
An outdoor display 
Virginia creeper 
Front-side garden 
Blueberries! 
Shasta daisies! 
Crown vetch and creeping bellflower 
Peony bloom has ended. 
Shady fern 
The Secret Garden 
Climbing Rose 
Shady side ivy 
Willamette hops 
Blue Moon Wisteria 
Bleeding hearts on their way out. 
Shady thinking spot 
Mushroom logs 
A bounty of kitchen herbs. 
Poppies and strawberries 
Poppy! 
Berry bushes thrive! 
This bed needs some work. The asparagus has not been doing well. 
Partly shady, slow-growing plants 
Root veggies and eggplants 
Tomato vines 
Here they come… 
Raspberry bushes 
Red raspberries. Nice and tart 
Potatoes reach for sun 
Perennial flowers (echinacea) about to bloom 
Under the star magnolia 
Hydrangea corner 
Elderberry shrub 
Perennial flowers 
Elderberry, honeyberry, and wild bergamot 
Sunchokes reach for the sun 
Lupine with seed pods 
Honecrisp apple 
Crabapple 
Bonus daisy 
Garden daisies 
Milkweed for the monarch butterflies 
Huechera flowers 
Hydrangea flower head 
Yarrow flowers 
Unripe jostaberries 
Unripe gooseberries 
Unripe gooseberries 
Red currants 
Black currants
