the 20th avenue garden re-emerges

Adrienne Sutton's garden is looking pretty good these days. The Pacific Northwest continues to amaze me on many levels, its productivity being one of them. This garden takes a lot of work, but a moderate climate and the steady amount of rain we get make the garden grow like mad. What's cool is we can grow almost anything here - corn, tomatoes, beans, strawberries, cherries, raspberries, peas, carrots, asparagus, radishes.... We just got an olive tree, and if they ever perfect a PacNorWest avocado I'll be in heaven.

We are currently harvesting lots of radishes, asparagus, leafy greens, leeks - all the early season stuff. But what's most impressive in the garden now are all of our flowers - spring up here is stunning. Below are some pictures I have been taking over the last month. For those of you that are my FB friends, you've already seen these.

Flowering red currant is a native up here and one of the first things to bloom. We have about 10 of these in the garden.

This is the other first-flowerer of the season - the native salmon berry. Grows like a weed and produces semi-sweet beautiful salmon colored berries.

Next come the tulips, which have stunning color on a sunny day.

This guy looks like an upside down tulip, but in fact is a lily.

Then the cherry tree comes to life and bursts with white flowers.

This is one of my favorite plants in the yard - don't even know what it is, but it is stunning!

Next come the azaleas and rhododendrons...

And now the next round of bulbs are coming up - irises!

Things are looking fly around here - you should come visit!