2009-07 Late July around the yard

Just a couple of pictures before I shut down because of the heat! It's going to be 100F out this week. Fortunately, Portland usually only has two weeks per year that it ever hits 100: the last week of July and the First week of August... right on schedule. And I have so much work to do too! Stupid Summer.

I've built all the bench frames for my greenhouse, though some need some slats for the top still. Here's one...


One of the tiniest flowers I've grown, Eschscholzia caespitosa (I think).


Another of the tiniest flowers, Mimulus guttatus (I think), the tiny kind.


Another tiny one, one of my Neo's, 'Shoujou'.


Last, something that isn't so tiny, the orchid I've had the longest: Oncidium 'Sherry Baby' (I think). I took a single rootless pseudobulb out of the trashcan at Maplethorpe Orchids in Santa Cruz in Spring 2000 when I was a penniless college student. Now, it has 13 spikes, up from 11 last year, and it desperately needs a bigger pot.


Now I just have to keep all my plants alive through the deathly heat to come... How soon is October!? (That's not soon enough!)