Thu 16 Jun 2011
State of the Garden – June 2011
Posted by cheryl under Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
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My chamomile is blooming. Need to figure out how to make tea with it.
Blue-eyed grass, sisyrinchium angustifolium. The camera wouldn’t focus on the flower unless my hand was in the background.
Following drastic pruning at the direction of father-in-law, the unknown rose is blooming.
Lots of lovely lavender. What shall I do with it all?
Tomatoes! About half of my plants have flowers on them now.
Viburnum nudum Brandywine, new this year. I can’t take credit, it came with the buds already on it.
Not chamomile, weedy pretty daisies.
The mountain laurel is almost done.
And for memories’ sake, the chives, irises, and peonies all bloomed and went between last month’s pictures and today.
Oh, and the multiflora rose is blooming, joy.
Lavender syrup? Could use it for making lemonade, and I’m sure there are plenty of other uses.
And for the chamomile, I would assume you’d just dry the leaves and then steep them to make tea, but I don’t have any experience. You could also probably try just steeping the fresh leaves. Tea at the Russian summer house is made by gathering various leaves from the garden. I made some recently with a mixture of fresh raspberry and mint leaves.