Night

spinach, cilantro, arugala, mustard greens, lettuce and kale

a good sign for anyone's backyard. read Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets

black swallow tail butterfly caterpillars eating dill

pepper plants (anaheim, jalapeno, banana, poblano)

food!

beets

banana peppers

kale

another kind of kale

lemon balm, two kinds of sorrel and english mint

carrots, beets and onions

collard greens

potatoes and shallots

butterfly flowers and edible flowers

cosmos

i dont know the name. it came with the house. very drought tolerant

cosmos

butterfly garden, with white yarrow in the foreground





cockscomb in the butterfly garden

edible flower

lettuce in bloom

society garlic flowers

“The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity” - George Carlin

our one fennel plant. we dont eat it, but the black swallowtail butterfly caterpillars love it. there's five of them in this picture.

another angle of the black swallowtail butterfly caterpillar

side view

chomping away at the fennel

an earlier stage of the black swallow tail butterfly caterpillar. this one is on our dill plant.

after the caterpillar stage, comes the chrysalis stage, just before the butterfly stage

the black swallowtail butterfly. it has to dry its wings first before it can fly.

happy family

almost ready to fly for the first time

saying goodbye. tears and hugs.

Beet it

There's not much permanence to the garden and it is constantly on the grow. Here's a bit of what we've had going on during the winter. Our evergreen tree looking lettuce is strange and beautiful.






























The kale below is almost two years old now...I can't get over the stalk!
















and of course..compost.

Fruits of labor

Our first strawberry flower.