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