Photos from the seventeenth week in the garden are up, spanning July 7-11, and have been tagged “Week Seventeen” in my Gardening 2010, Part Three album in my Picasa Web Albums. To see the original bed photos — in a slideshow from week to week — visit my Gardening 2010 photo album on Facebook.
The Indian Princess hibiscus finally bloomed! The wait was well worth it!
A row of all four hibiscus, in bloom.
Pickling cucumber. Uber alles.
This bachelor button didn't recover after the torrential downpour we received last week.
A purple periwinkle, that must have reseeded itself from last year.
The original bed
This blanket flower — the only one of which that has thrived this well, perhaps it's the porch? — is about to bloom.