21 July: morning at Markham Farm

Sunday, 21 July 2019

Markham Farm

morning sun, tea and a pastry at the cottage

We were honored to be able to stay at the cottage, which is really not used as a guest cottage.  It is more of a library.  The real guest rooms are up some stairs in the old farmhouse, and Terri and Bill were so kind to offer us a one story dwelling out of sympathy for my physical problems.

We packed our belongings and drove down to the barn so that we’d be ready to go garden touring later.

by the driveway

Ilsa awaiting company

Teresa of The Planter Box had already arrived from an overnight at Ocean Shores, and Kilyn and Peter soon arrived from their campground at Ocean City.

Peter and Ilsa

We walked all around the garden.

The European bladdernut tree (Staphylea pinnata)

Ilsa, Kylin and me

Teucrium ‘Purple Tails’ and a rose

a bright little bird

Woody, the old blind horse, is over 30 years old.

one of many hydrangeas

garden art

Terri, Teresa, and Kilyn

more hydrangeas

smokin’ smoke bush

another idea I want to copy (if I can find a big enough pot)

We found a frog by Waldo Pond, named because one looks for frogs in the pond like “Where’s Waldo”, and of course, a pun on Walden Pond.  As usual, it took me a long time before the pun dawned on me.

Allan’s photo

More frogs were in the pond. (Allan’s photo)

The beautiful water globe was a Costco find.

Barry

the blueberry field (for the birds)

We went down the trail to the beach.

Allan’s photo

Allan’s photo

Allan’s photo, Teresa and Ilsa

Back to the garden…

Gus

We went down the east slope to see the river of Geranium ‘Rozanne’.

at the bottom of the hill

a side path on the way up

looking down

After our Markham morning, we caravaned in three vehicles to visit Cindy’s garden, just a few minutes away.