Creating a Vineyard and Garden

Wine grapes, roses, and more

Today ’s photos come from Donald LaGrand .

I want to share with everyone the progress on my passkey plan layout of the gardens here in Somerset , California . The photos are from throughout the twelvemonth .

We have a fiddling over four acre of property , and two acre are being transformed into a massive garden layout . There ’s a rose garden , a California native garden , a lavender garden , arock garden , a butterfly stroke garden , a hummingbird garden , and half an acre of Barberagrapesthat we harvest every year and sell to the local winery .

It ’s been three years since we set forth this labor by establishing the substructure plants first , like the many trees we have planted . The 44 rose were planted bare base in February of this year . They were slow getting lay down , but once they were , they grew to 2 feet tall and produced many prime .

It ’s a labor of love , and the blueprint is ultimately starting to show its beauty as the plants begin to establish themselves and are on video display as you walk through garden in the morning with a cupful of umber in one hand and a pair of clipper in the other .

Happy gardening everyone !

Some of the trees set early in the development of the garden display their fall vividness .

originative use of old stumps , turned into planter .

Rows of grapes , with risky buttercups flower in the grass between them .

Therosesare blooming already . They ’ve been planted on a spacious spacing so they ’ll have room to reach their full , mature size .

fold - up of a efflorescence from one of the rose .

A rose laden down with beautiful blooms .

Grapes ready to harvest !

The grapevine harvest , ready to be trade to local wineries .

Another view of the garden , with the grape depict their autumn colouring .

The beautiful orange blossom of Leo ’s ear ( Leonotis leonurus , Zones 8–11 )

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