Nootka Rose

Today there are lots of little pink blooms on the Nootka rose (Rosa Nutkana).

A different kind of school fundraiser

Last week I received some plants I had purchased from my son's school fundraiser. They were selling tomatoes and peppers planted by people from the local homeless shelter. The fundraiser was a combined event with profits going both to the school and to help the different parts of the shelter, such as its soup kitchen, thrift store, garden market, wood lot and Christmas tree lots.
I can't wait to see how our plants do. We came home with Betterboy, Celebrity and Roma tomatoes and one Northstar Bell pepper.

By the way, my son found the name of the spider in yesterday's post. It was an Apache Jumper.

Four little plants and a spider

I brought home four little plants from the Thyme Garden. They are from left to right (with their tag descriptions):

Brown's Butterfly Geranium - double dark maroon flowers with a touch of pink
Tennessee Coneflower - endangered species; pink flowers with forked tips
Polar Summer Mullein - striking white foliage with spikes of yellow flowers
Lobelia Queen Victoria - red flowers; hummingbird favorite



And the boys found a little spider. It is toward the bottom left of the post, with a red back.

Mother's Day at the Thyme Garden

The Thyme Garden in Alsea celebrated Mother's Day with its annual event over the weekend. People brought picnic lunches, perused the art booths and wandered the grounds of the nursery. And the weather turned out nice on the day we were there.

A sunny post on a cloudy day

This is the Whitespires Church (1891) in the Monteith Historic District in Albany, Oregon.