Garden pics

Once again my benign neglect has allowed our perennials to flourish. As always there was a list of plants to move and divide and prune but they remain pretty much untouched. I did do a little pruning around the edges but the center of the beach roses are six foot tall.

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Self sown chaos. This started with a few of this and a half dozen that and time has done the rest.

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Once cleared of volunteers the beds will hold summer herbs, vegetables and such.

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Eventually it all fills in. Coreopsis in front of the Barberry.

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Let there be roses. I remember when they were a grid of six inch plants.

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That common Bayberry on the left. There’s square yards of Onethera, a kind of semi-wild primrose, ready to bloom in a week or so. Bright yellow, here for a month or so.

Here’s a bit of boat stuff:
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Spyder tacking out of Jones Tide Pond, fresh from Beaton’s and ready for a new season.

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The Beaton’s built tender to the Silent Maid. I hope to see her under sail this weekend. The photo is from John de Rouville’s shop on Toms River.

Her Summer Cruise to Maine starts soon. John Brady has started a Blog. Follow along here.