First fruit

The summer vegetable harvest has begun!

Calendula

The third type of flower in the "cottage" garden has bloomed.

Beautiful harvest

Cosmos and bachelor's buttons from the "cottage" garden and lavender and bee balm from the herb garden.

More flowers

A second type of flower has begun to bloom in the "cottage" garden.  I believe this one is "bachelor's buttons."

The bok choy I planted this spring has also started to flower.

So has the nearby cilantro.  This was a "slow-bolt" variety, but our unseasonable warmth is probably the reason it bolted before it was even big enough to harvest the leaves.

The dill is also beginning to bloom.

This is some of the romaine that over-wintered.  Last time, they were closed because it was cloudy.  This is what they look like when they're open.

Look how similar the thistle flowers are to the romaine.  I also noticed tonight that the romaine flowers turn into little puff-balls (similar to dandelions) after flowering, which I have noticed also happens to this type of thistle.

Here is the most exciting new flower this week: zucchini!

Cosmos

Yesterday, the first bloom in my "cottage" garden opened.  Now that it has, I can identify that it is a cosmos.  The seed pack says that there will be red and gold blooms as well.  I picked two yesterday and there are two more today.  So far, they're all orange.  Two more types of flowers are getting to be a good size.  I can't wait for them to bloom to see what they are!

Garden flowers

 

bee balm

Who knew onions had such pretty flowers?

store-bought marigold

This magenta-spreen lambsquarters is getting ready to spread its seed.  Hopefully, it will grow as a weed for a long time in my garden.

This is one of the weeds I posted earlier this year.  It's turned out to have nice flowers.

These parsley flowers aren't the prettiest, but hopefully they'll scatter a lot of seed in the garden.

The lavender is in full bloom.  It looks a lot more impressive in person.

This pineapple sage survived the winter in my closet.  It's still tiny, but it's starting to bloom.  Hopefully, it will get much bigger this year.

The little, yellow romaine lettuce flowers have closed because the sun's behind some clouds.

This is probably the most important flower in my garden right now (to me): tomato!