Roses

I've always looked forward to Saturdays and Sundays, that's when I get to play in my garden the whole day, or almost the whole day. As my usual Saturday morning routine, I went around my garden with a camera. I snapped a few pictures in the morning light, it seems to bring out the best colors in flowers. Later I inspected my vegetables.

Drat, I discovered that the peas I sowed last week had all been eaten by small birds. This, despite the fact that I did cover them with a nylon net. I had hung it too high off the ground and it detered the crows but not the little birds. I normally welcome these birds in my garden, they are absolutely adorable and cute, but cuteness can only admit them so far. I let them eat my tomatoes but not my peas. Luckily, I did order a lot of peas from Shumways, so I had replacements.

I then watered my garden especially the spots that the watering system does not reach. I sow my seeds very densely so a drip system might not work too well, but it does help when I go on vacation.

I picked fresh lettuce for lunch, we usually have fresh fish from the farmers market and the lettuce are just absolutely fresh. I picked some New Zealand spinach as well as regular spinach. I also picked some peas to add to the lettuce for crunch. I wash garden lettuce three times under running water to ensure bugs and other matter are dislodged. After that, it's sufficiently clean, besides these lettuces are growing in container so there isn't a lot of dirt splashed on them by the watering system.

Here is a close-up picture of aragula, spinach,and New Zealand spinach among leaf lettuce.



Lettuce


Rose picture, a dreamy romatic look, I tried to focus on the tendrils and not the petals, the petals are supposed to be out of focus, but it did not work

The same rose with the tendrils and petals in focus

Took this one early in the morning


Splash some water on this rose, I pretend it was dew and took this early in the morning


Rose tree