North Country gardens–your first photos

Peonies at Kent Family Growers in Lisbon. Photo: Megan Kent

We begin our summer garden scan with an assortment of photos from North Creek to Lisbon, with an emphasis on flowers. Keep those garden photos coming. We want to see how your vegetables and flowers are doing. Don’t be shy. Perhaps you’re doing a patio garden with potted tomatoes and lots of flowers. Send us photos. So much fun to see what everyone is up to out in the dirt. Photos may be emailed to [email protected] and be sure to include your name and the location of your garden.

We had a great email from Megan at Kent Family Growers in Lisbon. The family runs a vegetable and flower CSA. Here’s what Megan had to say about growing flowers:

This has been a pretty ideal spring for many flowers, with carmine red Maltese Cross at it’s peak currently, Delphinium soon to follow and Lilies next in line.  The plastic “high tunnel” is producing Snapdragons, Zinnias, Rudbeckia and Ageratum and the Sunflowers and Celosia are slowly growing their way into the limelight for the fall.  Working with flowers is one of the most enjoyable activities I experience each year and I feel a small loss with every passing of a particular flower’s peak.  During the winter months, the lack of flowers in my life feels like a vitamin deficiency in my body, so I try to take in as much as I can before the frost.

Here’s another one from the Kent farm:

Foxglove. Kent Family Growers, Lisbon. Photo: Megan Kent

In Schroon Lake, southeast of Lisbon, Helene Vanderburgh sent us this photo, entitled “Almost Red, White and Blue.”

Almost red, white and blue, in Schroon Lake. Photo: Helene Vanderburgh

Not far from Schroon Lake, over in North Creek, Mary and Roger Abramson sent us photos of flowering shrubs.

White spirea, North Creek. Photo: Abramson

Close up of red weigela. Photo: Abramson

Red weigela, North Creek. Photo: Abramson

Nine bark flowers, North Creek. Photo: Abramson

Okay, your turn. Let’s get some vegetable garden photos into next week’s garden round up. Again, send those photos to [email protected], include your name and location. Thanks.

Tags: flowers, gardens, vegetables