August 2015 – Kleckner Oasis

Garlic Chives Whiteout

Garlic Chive plants are sending up a lot of white flowers. These flowers are magnets for bees and other pollinators.

Some of the ponds I have lack water most of the year. They help stop excess water from the thunderstorm that just passed through here.

Orange Bell Peppers are starting to ripen. They have so far went from green to yellow to orange.

The Red and Yellow Delicious Apples will be ripe in about a month. The trees are loaded with fruit this year.

The Monarch Butterflies have been really obsessed with the Zinnias this year. These flowering annuals stay attractive for months.

The Persimmon/Pecan Orchard has slowly been growing through the years. A lot of flowering plants have been planted among them.

Kokuso Mulberry has been a bushy growing tree. The leaves tend to be large and unlobed.

I have been growing Pole Beans on Cattle Panels for the last few years. I am currently growing green beans and dry beans on them.

With the steady rains, I have been harvesting a lot of Green Beans. The purple beans turn green when cooked.

It looks like a Garden Spider is protecting my Purple Beech. There has been a large population of these spiders this summer.