Several years old four o'clock. 8.27.22

 This four o'clock comes back every year.   It never gets winter protection or watering.  It started blooming a few weeks later than the others, but will bloom all through fall. nIt's much larger than the first year plants.

Dwarf Tomato Crop. 8.27.22

 Here are the dwarf tomato raised beds.  Unfortunately I picked tomatoes before taking the photo.

I couldn't be happier with how they came out.    High raised bed, dwarf varieties, drip irrigation, cardboard mulch.  Working very nicely.

Oh Dear. Oh Deer. 8.22.22

 

I'mostly learned to coexist with them.  Every tree's lowest branches are at about 5 or 6 feet now, because Bambi ate all of the lower leaves and branches.

Flowers. 8.20.22

 Here are some of the flowers.  The zinnias haven't had as much of a chance this year but are still a favorite.

Reblooms on Alstroemerias

More Rudbeckia and Echinacea flowers.

Figs, figs, figs. 8.20.22

 Two fig trees are producing like crazy, Desert King and Lattarula.  Sicilian white is producing smaller figs, but not bad and is a younger tree, shaded by a larger Linden tree.

Desert King.

I didn't photograph the Sicilian figs.  There were also two ripe figs on the Brunswick fig tree.  Photo below, the largest, brown-ish is Brunswick.  Desert King is the largest green, Lattarula is the smaller green.  

The small colander is Sicilian White but mostly Lattarula.  The large colander is Desert King.

I made a batch of fig jam.

I froze puree for five batches of fig bars, yummy!