First flower on this new Morning glory
I think I like the blues the best
this is the wild one that has been in my garden forever
I pull most as weeds but a few survive to flower and I am pleased when they do .
and this one in the front landscape for about 14 years
the pink one pops up around the potting bench
and the white one in a pot at the end of the potting bench
Very glad for a 50's morning , A pleasure to feel cold while watering
Have to water the garden daily , last week 90's
cleared a couple beds , had to water the soil before I could re plant beans and beets.
very happy with my new cattle panel trellis
It is planted with melons and cucumbers. and by all the produce the plants are happy too
Phlox filling the garden with beauty and fragrance.
first of the Hardy hibiscus
Saving seeds on these --very pleased with their unusual form
August has turned hot and dry ....may get rain tomorrow
watered things
picked beans cucumbers and squash this evening
I was gone a few days and the monsters took over
so what is wrong with this picture??
suppose to be pickling cucumbers and the tomatoes are about half size
Lessons : straw under tomatoes invites slugs , they are destroying all the large tomatoes before they get ripe enough to pick .
never had a slug problem before.
I am going to try feeding them beer , maybe they will get too drunk to eat my tomatoes.
Lesson two : baggy shorts with huge pockets are the best for strolling the garden
This time of year I am always finding things I missed while picking.
Lesson three: If the first butterfly of the season is a cabbage white just forget the brasics
had to pull all the broccoli, nothing but stems, cabbage not much better.
On the upside filled my belly with strawberries and blackberries while picking
Almost a week not getting to the garden , the darn mosquitoes have gone crazy , four inches of rain in four days .
I need a bee hat just to take out the compost , the mosquitoes get under my glasses and in my ears . We have to brush them off the dogs back before she can come in the house (they are riding her inside to attack us.)
....anyway cant remember when they have been this bad.
I have been sneaking out quickly to cut some flowers for the house.and today to take a few photos
they cost dearly at least a dozen bites , and I was fully covered.
skullcap
this daylily was dug this spring and just dropped into a pot waiting a new placement , did not stop it from blooming like crazy.
the tall marigolds have started blooming
the bell clematis is blooming bigger in the second flush
finally a dark sunflower
Hyssop in full bloom makes for happy bees
delphinium in the cutting garden ...now in the house.
the crocosmia burst into flower just in time for the forth
they look like garden fireworks.
the four-o-clocks putting off some nice colors
summer sunflowers everywhere, showing their bright faces.
Daylilies and beebalm in full bloom
