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How does your garden grow?

Hope you’re in the mood for more flower photos, because things got nuts in the garden this month…

Mandevilla
Bottlebrush, with a few mock orange blossoms in the background.
Moonflower
Asiatic lily, my favorite color scheme.
Another color scheme. These blooms are as big as my hand. The stalks are 6 feet tall. These things are INSANE!
Best year for gladiolas EVER!
Beautiful clarkia, which no one remembers ever planting…
Sure, it’s a normal marigold, but it was grown from a seed! We didn’t cheat and pick up a six pack from Home Depot.
It’s been a great year for sunflowers!
“Red Sun.” I wonder why they call it that?
A Kentucky Derby rose, right on time!
Pumpkin blossoms!

Why should the flowers get all the attention?

An old, old friend.

This is Hoppy. Some of my earliest memories are of riding him, gripping the pole tightly, and watching the world whirl by between his ears.

Hoppy lives at Knott’s Berry Farm, on a 116-year old carousel that’s one of the finest in existence. Truly, it is a national treasure. Can’t wait for the park to fully re-open and give it another ride. I can almost hear that pipe organ playing now…

Watch it spin!