Asters, black eyed Susan’s, thyme, lavender and feverfew
Autumn beauty sunflower with a happy bee
Blurry borage with bee
Butterfly on a zinnia
So many grasshoppers this year, but also so many plants and birds that I don’t see much damage.
Cosmos and poke
This larkspur made a surprising comeback. It’s amazing what companion planting and ignoring plants will do. Nature knows how to take care of itself!
Crazy carrots
Riotous abundance, including some of the carrots I’ve let flower (the white umbrels)
Heavily harvested beets ‘n’ greens: once the beets come out, more garlic will go in.
As I’ve thinned tomatoes, daikons have thrived.
Mums the word!
Another abundant and heavily harvested bed of fall and winter greens.
Nearly ripe fairy tale pumpkin hiding among the pumpkin vines and zinnias
Pineapple sage beginning to bloom, with rhubarb chard peeking out.
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Posted by Mitch Mattraw on September 25, 2014 at 4:53 pm
so lovely and peaceful Laura, there’s luminescent sheen, a softness that belies your urban environs, magical!
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Posted by laurabruno on September 25, 2014 at 4:55 pm
Thanks, Mitch! Yes, it’s so lovely to spend time out there, and the more things I plant, the more everything harmonizes. Now I just need to get my butt out there and plant more daffodils! 😉
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Posted by Mari Braveheart-Dances on September 25, 2014 at 5:18 pm
Hello Laura, and thank you once again from the depths of my heart for your Earth Offerings. I benefit from the pictures greatly. It feeds my spirit, truly it does. I am determined to be gardening in some fashion within the year (I do it at my apt, but so little real space – I crave much bigger spaces to work with) – whether in Ojai, or around here, or Asheville – it will settle itself out. In the meantime, I dream and plan, and find joy in my present life and circumstances. I had a lot of garden back in the day (even 5 years ago!). Then I had emotional trauma drama and fell into a swill, coming out now though and dreaming my life! Ya-ya-yay! Part of my dream is to work on the land. I’m pretty soft now, because I haven’t had my own Garden to work in. Your Beautiful Garden Food Forest is my inspiration. Somehow, some day, I’m going to do what you’re doing. Meanwhile, I live vicariously through you – and I get tears in my eyes and joy in my heart when I behold your pictures and your stories. It is awesome to the max, my beautiful Laura. Thank you for sharing your pictures, and for doing what you’re doing. – Heart to Heart, Mari
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Posted by laurabruno on September 25, 2014 at 5:21 pm
Oh, Mari, you are most welcome. Thank you for your heartfelt love, support and joy. I feel it! Much love, Laura
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Posted by Tania Marie's Blog on September 25, 2014 at 5:43 pm
beautiful! love the grasshopper! 😉
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Posted by laurabruno on September 25, 2014 at 10:13 pm
Yes, patience, grasshopper! 🙂
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Posted by sky on September 25, 2014 at 9:46 pm
What a riot of abundance! Nature’s own life force is truly at work in your garden now. The “tipping point” has been reached, now your garden vastly amplifies every effort you put into it.
Like Mari, I, too, enjoy your garden blog and photos very much. I, too, am unable to garden at present, but deeply enjoy photos of and stories about your garden. Your garden journey exemplifies the power of the life force, which you have brought back to life in the grounds surrounding your home.
Sky
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Posted by laurabruno on September 25, 2014 at 10:12 pm
Oh, thank you, Sky. That makes me grin wide! Yes, it has begun to flourish on its own, and the life force now recharges me, instead of me needing to pump every last morsel of free energy into the land. 🙂 It’s much more balanced now — like a dance! Thanks for commenting and for your encouragement earlier in the year when I was ready to chuck it all with the insane and seemingly Sisyphean effort. I’m glad I stuck with it.
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Posted by Dawn Vierra on September 26, 2014 at 4:14 am
happy to see your pictures today…didn’t get outside enough and seeing your abundance and beauty along with all the lovely insects, bees, butterflies…sure made my heart feel at ease and happy….thank you for sharing this…a respite to see it all.
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Posted by laurabruno on September 26, 2014 at 10:28 am
So glad these photos made you happy and at ease, Dawn! I was thinking of you the other day, as a good friend passed through Flagstaff, Sedona, Jerome and on out through the Verde Valley. 🙂
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Posted by James G on September 26, 2014 at 1:43 pm
I love your beautiful garden Laura. Some times I wonder if any of the monarch butterflies that are in my garden stopped and visited yours and it makes me smile. 🙂
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Posted by laurabruno on September 26, 2014 at 1:58 pm
Oh, James, that just made me smile, too! In any case, we can assume the butterfly effect is … in effect. 🙂
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Posted by manyhahama1955 on September 26, 2014 at 2:39 pm
Nice work Laura! Absolutely beautiful! love, sophia
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