My CONDO SUMMER GARDEN in Sweet HOME Chicagoland! (PHOTOS) #chicagoland #condo #garden

Ξ June 21st, 2012 | → 0 Comments | ∇ home, home and garden, me, My dog, nature, Obi, personal, Photography, summertime, United States |

Beautiful day today–clear–in the 80′s F, especially good too, because a task I had needed to do got cancelled–opening up some unstructured time for me–and the dogs.

Spouse’s garden is looking pretty rad. The Purple Smoke tree in particular is a favourite of mine.

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In the backyard – Purple Smoke Tree – 6-21-12

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‘Obi’ -6-2012 – Schaumburg
backyard

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Hosta – 6.21.112

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6-21-12

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Creeping upward… trellis

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Raven and Obi – backyard 6.21.12

OK. That’s pretty much all in back right now–that’s thriving after this brutal weather, anyway. There’s much more in front but I don’t really hang out there. It’s an odd sunlight situation both in front and back because of the way this funny old condo building is built.

We (the condo assoc.–not me personally) fired our on-site groundskeeper and and are not buying much in the way of foliage so what spouse does–the scale, seeing as we own only one condo here not all six units, for this building. He does a real lot. People thank him though, which is all the encouragement he needs, I think.