Heritage Days in the Garden

This weekend the Interpretive Center celebrated the 175th Anniversary of the Oregon Trail.  We had many visitors to the gardens, including a few from the past!  

Father and daughter 

Taking a closer look 

Two garden explorers

We played at vegetable game - matching the seeds to the vegetable.  

The visitors didn't seem to disturb the residents of the garden, they were busy doing their work all day long.

Beautiful rose hips, almost ready for harvest

Speckled Moon and Stars watermelon with Calendula 

Watermelon blossom and lobed leaves 

Almost ripe! 

The corn is just not growing, probably because of the watering issues earlier in the summer. 

Leek seadheads

Short Cleome

And my camera just can't stay away from the Zinnia's!  They were the star of the garden today as the subject for many photos from our visitors

Things should start to quiet down in the gardens with fall approaching in just about a month or so.  Enjoy these last days of summer in your gardens, and we will see you soon. 

Just Checking In

We arrived in the garden this morning to discover that the irrigation system hasn't been working. Luckily the parks department was there taking care of it and turning the water back on. On the bright side, there wasn't a lot of weeds to pull, and we were able to harvest lots of seeds today. Now we just have to wait and see how the rest of the veggies do over the next month or so.

Cabbage and Calendula 

Four O'Clocks 

Visitors in the Garden - Oregon City Festival of the Arts

Today was the Three River's Artist Guild summer art show at the Interpretive Center.  We had artists set up all over the grounds and in our little garden.  Visitors walked through the gardens taking pictures and asking questions about our little project, and asking advice about their own gardens too.  We talked about veggies, fertilizer, pests, roses, herbs, soil ....  really about any and all things garden related.  If you didn't make it out today we will all be there on Sunday too. 

And if you missed it, here are a few photos from the garden today.  

Orach gone to seed. 

Amaranth. 

Pink Hollyhocks. 

Insect visitor on the lavender. 

Scarlet runner beans. 

Encore bloom by one of our Moss Roses. 

Pink Mallow. 

Sweet Peas. 

Feverfew and Love in a Mist.

Cabbage and Calendula.

Squash bloom - look closely and you will see a bumble bee in the throat of the flower. 

And last but definitely not least - a few of the beautiful Zinnia's we have in the garden this year.  So photogenic!  

Soon I will be sharing photos of our harvest, so be sure to check back.