I miss my vegetable garden. Since we live between two homes I can't have one because I couldn't take care of it. I'm not sure what to suggest to add for color. Perhaps check out the nurseries online and find your zone area. I'm sure theres plenty of beautiful flowers and things you could plant in and around it all.

i just don't have the patience or the time...my flower garden is a couple hanging baskets..

i forgot i have a bunch of hostas...but they ytake care of them selves..

I have tomateos,peppers, and hot peppers, and  mint.  I have a avocato tree, and a mango tree. some plantains too.

Well, let's see.   We've planted radishes 3 times.  Don't think will plant anymore.  The hotter the weather, the hotter the radish becomes.  But they were good while they lasted.  Planted onions.  Regular table onions, white onions and vidalia onions to pick later this fall.  Yellow & red beets, which I've already pulled and canned.  Kolrabi, Green beans, which I'm about to pull the plants, as I getting tired of picking and freezing, them.  We have 14 tomato plants of about 7 variations.  They are coming on strong and fast, so I'm making sauces, juice and just plain freezing some.  (As well as eating them on BLT or as a side.) We have 9 pepper plants.  Jalepeno,  2 Habenaros, Yellow Bell, Red Bell, Orange Bell, Green Bell, Serano, Dark Purple.

Brussell Sprouts, cantelope, zucchinni, cucumbers, acorn squash.  All of which I've been canning and freezing, but now the Japenese Beatles are envading my plants and I'm trying to save them from succumbing to them.  My peach tree is done producing.  My nectarine tree, has nice ripe juicy fruit, but very few.  So just picking them and washing them off and putting the crisper to pull them out as we want one.  I had an herb garden on my deck, but the beatles got them too.  So, I've had to go to the farmers market and buy my herbs, especially my cilantro.  I can't cook with out that or garlic.  Some of my apples are ripening and could probably pick by the end of the weekend and start some applesauce and such.  My pears are loaded, but they don't mature much before Labor Day or maybe the middle of September.  All I know that from the time I get up at 4:45am to the time I go to bed, which often times it is 11:00pm or better, I'm exhausted, but this winter I will really appreciate all the work I've done to put up the produce.  We have sweetcorn out at my son-in-law's farm and I will be freezing that tomorrow night.  So, I must sign off, so I can get some beauty rest and get up and start at the post office by 7am (which is an hour away, since I am still in training.  So I have to leave no later than 5:50am.)  I've put up several jars of dill pickles, bread & butter pickles & fruit salsas and pie peaches.  Also picked and froze 9 qts. of black raspberries and hopefully, hubby will remember to go out and pick my gooseberries before the deer get them.  Tomatoes will be a daily chore until I am plum sick of them.  I have one more batch of pickles to get done by tomorrow evening as well.  Oh my, I have my hands full.  Wears me out just thinking about it.  I'm sure I'll get at least one batch of chaw-chaw done before I call it quits w/the tomatoes and hot peppers.

 

You are most welcome to come help me out.  LOL.

 

Doe 

I could and will probably do so towards the end of the season, when I think I've put up enough for the winter.  Finances are really tight until I get the whole ordeal with the photographer settled and my repairs done from the July 21st storm.  I started my two PT jobs and anxiously awaiting my first pay checks.  My wine business slowed down a bit in the summer, so little income there, but it will pick back up next month. 

my dh and i have a nice herb garden of chives, parsely, sage, basii, thyme, oregano, marjoram and 4 kinds of mint.and-- a aromatic curry plant. Jean

Doe- Thats one heck of a garden! Wow!  I loved it when I had tomatoes. I made the extras into sauce.