Last year we started to create a new garden space in our backyard. After a lot of work, it’s looking like a garden of plenty now.

This is how it looked several years ago when we bought the place. The house included a fenced dog run with a heated doghouse.

Some of the beds in our newly-created garden are bordered by rocks collected on our property, and others are store bought. Smaller rocks we collected on our rock hounding adventures decorate the edges of the raised beds. See the obsidian from Glass Buttes?

What’s growing in our garden

This year we have lots of flowers filling in the spaces between the fruits and vegetables. The flowers include sunflowers, Bachelor’s buttons, sweet alyssum, clematis, hollyhocks, nasturtium, and poppies.

The sunflowers grew so tall, we had to clip through the bird netting to allow them to reach their full height.

We’ve had a great crop of veggies including kohlrabi, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, and beets.

The raspberries we put in last year are finally producing. We had a few strawberries this year in the garden and they were tasty and sweet.

The garden is fenced with two kinds of fencing and bird netting, but we still find unexpected visitors. This tree frog looked very comfortable around the beet plants.

Our fruit and vegetable garden has filled out and the rest of the landscaping has too. Here’s what it looks like now.

The spruce trees are huge and the birds love them. The Russian sage, the large shrub with purple flowers in the middle of the picture, is more than six feet tall.

Like many of you out there, we are putting more time into gardening this year. Our repurposed dog run has been transformed into a garden of plenty.

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