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| Showy zinnias. |
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| Lisa harvesting in the zinnia patch. We learned about using landscape fabric and planting through it. What a game changer, as Erin from Floret would say. |
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| We are always trying to work smarter. Lisa uses the short green stool to pick from. The black trailer holds many buckets of fresh water with flower preservative so the flowers can go right in. Flower sales purchased the trailer. |
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| Rocky is weeding onions, they don't compete well with weeds. Lisa in the zinnia patch on the left. |
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| Caught Lisa with a handful of orange zinnias. |
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| The trailer is packed full with flowers ready to be in the shade of the flower house. |
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| The wheeled tables Lisa and I built in the flower house are the correct height with full buckets. Lisa sewed the hanging swag of flower seed packets. |
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| Love all these colors. |
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| Our glads have landscape fabric in their walkways and are not having to compete with weeds this year. I'd say they are loving their growing conditions. |
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| The maroon leaves are mahogany hibiscus. Grown for their foliage, not their flowers. |
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| Lisa starts to unload the flowers. |
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| White, pink and cranberry colors of cosmos mixed in with zinnias and marigolds. |
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| Zinnias have many different petal counts. Some are fairly flat, others are packed with numerous petals. |
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| Purple and red zinnias. The red ones have petals with an underside that is pale. If they aren't all the way open, the pale side shows on the edges of the petals. |
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| I really love these ones. They may go in my new card collections. |
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| Lime green with bright centers. Some zinnias are more frilly than others. |
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| And another. |
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| One more of the lime green ones. So fresh! |
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| These are in the cactus category of zinnias. Frilly petal ends verses the orange one on the right that has rounded petal tips. |
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| Ruffled pink and green gladiolas. |
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| Green moving to gold sunflowers. |
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| It's a crazy good zinnia day. Bright pink with a touch of pale yellow in the center. |
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| Lime green to yellowish with a variety of centers. |
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| The gladiolas are very vibrant and happy this year. |
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| And very tall! |
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| Terry is trimming and sorting the purple onions for the day. |
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| A small frog in the bottom of a bucket with a tad bit of water. |
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| Today's string beans. Green and purple and oh so tender. Notice how slim they are? The yellow green beans were added to the bags later. |
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| Many hands make for light work. Bryan, Terry, Alex fill our large bags as Angie documents. |
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| Today's harvest box is stuffed! (Remember only one bouquet per box. Two are shown for their beauty!) |
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| Some of the zucchini haul for the day. This is after the boxes all have their allotment for the day. |
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| Round zucchini. Anna loves them for zoodling. |
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| Today's list of goodies. |
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| Anna and Ethan making zucchini fritters for lunch. Oh my gosh! |
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| Today's Yukon Golds all cleaned up and ready to put in the boxes. A labor of love to get them all clean. |
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| Another one of Anna's yummy dips. |
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| A special day with two main courses. Veggies galore. |
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| And a pesto pasta salad. |
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| Fritters! |
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| These thin tendrils are from the purple cleome flower that has lighter colored petals. It is also called spider flower. Hmmm. |
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| A few of the bouquets in the flower house. |
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| A purple and lime green bouquet. Purple and lavender gladiolas, zinnias and a few purple and white splotched asters. |
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| Zinnias, cosmos, asters and gladiolas in my favorite colors. |
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| Sunflowers, dahlias, zinnias, gladiolas. |
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| Dahlias, zinnias, gladiolas, frosted explosion grass, dara make for a stunning display. See you next time on the blog. Lorrie |
