- A banana squash stealthily growing huge
- An apricot tree with fava beans, squash, herbs, artichokes, and tomatoes
- The withy hide growing beautifully
- Kabocha and delicata squash on the ground, zucchino rampicante on the trellis, Christmas beans, favas, Swiss chard and medicinal plants around a small avocado tree
- Favas: great for the soil, great for the dinnerplate
- Heirloom tomatoes. Why do they all come ripe at the same time?
- Sugar pumpkins are ripe already in the Mediterranean guild. Also figs, paste tomato, dill, fennel, thyme, pickling cucumbers and artichoke.
- Plant guilds of squash, beans, flowers, etc. are flourishing.
- Heirloom green melons hiding from the hot sun.
- By now the wild buckwheat has dried up, which starves the bees. But not here.
- Matilija and Flanders poppies over banana squash
- Monarchs are so plentiful this year that we have to take pains to avoid them.
- Wildflowers host an incredible diversity of insects
- Dill flowers looking like a spectacular firework
- In a balanced wildlife habitat, bunnys do little harm
- All five girls waiting for treats in the Fowl Fortress
- Pumpkins, bananas, bamboo and much more by fescue paths.
- Fresh grape leaves, dill and garlic from the garden for the pickles
- Hot weather? Must be canning season! Pickled cucumbers, zucchino and onions, and peach pit and peel jelly.
- Very large yellow waterlilies
- Native salt heliotrope by the big pond.
- Volunteer tomato in the shade of the Nest, by palm tree bench.
- Wisteria, grapes and zerpheranthum lilies around the Nest
- Blooming banana
- Quail eggs!
- Double heirloom hollyhock
- Egyptian lilies
- Fourth of July rose celebrating the holiday