Sedum 'Matron and 'Autumn Joy' in Fall

This nearly translucent glowing sedum is 'Matrona' After it freezes, its dark foliage seems to glw from within, taking on a pearly yellow after clocking itself in darknes most of the summer.

It is much showier than the 'Autumn Joy'. Don't you think?

Free Range Tomatoes

Yesterday I caught about ten minutes of Garrison Keillor doing his NPR show segment on "Guy Noir, Detective". In it Guy is investigating something to do with free range organic bourbon whiskey.

It was silly, especially the certification requirements for the "free-range organic"label.

So here I have my first tomatoes, and they are not tomatoes I started as seed in the dark of late winter. No, they are seeds that came in with some municipal compost two years ago and which have sprouted and reseeded two years now in my shrub border, in the unlikely location alongside my alleyway.

There you have it. Free range, certainly. I have just sort of "captured" them.

Like Jurassic Park, "Life will find a way."

I think I'll save seed this year, sort of like an heirloom.

More farm market art:

And I don't usually cut bouquets for indoors, but it's Sunday.

Have a good one.

Sedums

The hot weather is really bringing out the best in my sedums. So a lazy post here. This first is the common 'Autumn Joy'.

'Matrona'

'Zenox'

Containers: Tiny Gardens

Gardening on a small scale was a big part of the Outagamie Master Gardeners Garden Walk. There were lots of examples of tiny gardens which were quite well done.