This is just the beginning of blooming, but it's maybe my favorite time in the prairie life cycle. The purple flowers are bergamot (though I can't figure out their relationship, if any, to Earl Grey tea, which is infused with bergamot orange, an Asian citrus plant). I love the bergamot, even more than the popular cone flowers. There are wild rudbeckia, sort of a sissy version of the black-eyed Susan I planted in my garden from the nursery. There are the grasses-- the little blue stem and the "big blue," and everything else seems mostly like potential. I'll post agian when the cone flowers take over-- it is pretty spectacular. Right now I'm enjoying that I can walk out and cut down bergamot, which live longer than other wildflowers once cut, and add a really graceful appearance to the table.
In terms of the vegetable garden, it's actually starting to produce. I even picked and ate 4 beautiful, red cherry tomatoes today. I have three zuchinni and for a week have been picking small batches of snow peas, for use in salads and the occasional stir-fry. The full-size tomato plants are loaded down with small tomatoes and the cherry tomato plants will clearly produce a few batches of salsa. In terms of zucchini-- well, we're covered. The only thing I'm really curious about is the brussel sprouts. I can't wait to see the flower shoot up and all the little sprouts appear. What a sweet day that will be.
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