July 7, 2011

The great outdoors

We're finally experiencing true summer weather here at 'the farm'. The perennial gardens and the wildflowers in the fields are going through their succession of blooms.
Keeping with my love of blue and purple flowers I have great spires of delphiniums in flower along with clumps of nepeta and different types of bellflowers, all punctuated by white, pinks and yellows in the perennial beds while the wildflowers carry on the colour theme with daisies, buttercups, trefoil and purple vetch.
Some of the grasses in the fields are amazingly tall this season reaching up to 6 feet along the mown paths!

This photo is taken looking over one of our ponds (the former owner dredged around the edge of a marshy area so it looks like a river) looking back towards our house.

We don't actually have a working farm, just what used to be one and when we first bought it as our weekend place it got nicknamed 'the farm' by us city folks.

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