my garden looks like this today
Jun. 13th, 2009 02:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmegaeraBehind the cut because, well, eight pictures [g].
The front garden. The pink is dianthus, the blue is a dwarf campanula. The purple edging the street end is petunias. I would also like to point out that my neighbor's half of the flower bed is cleared and planted now, and looks much nicer. J asked for my help in picking out plants. I not only got to go to the nursery and spend someone else's money, but she also let me play in her dirt with her when we got back with them. A win-win situation, IMHO. The big plant in the pot is a tomato (in the only warm-and-sunny-enough microclimate I possess), surrounded by portulaca.
A closer view of part of that bed. The white and red-and-white to the far left is the sort of dianthus that is sold as an annual (it's perennial in my garden). The yellow to left center is calendula.
The back garden. Not much to distinguish at that distance, but it's coming right along. There's about fifteen different kinds of flowers blooming in it at the moment. Just no big "oomph" flowers since the iris and the clematis are all but over.
A closer view of the lefthand end, including the last iris blossom for the year, marigolds, yellow columbine, alyssum, snapdragons, hardy geranium, and chives. The tall plant back between the iris and the clematis vine is rudbeckia (black-eyed Susan) which has buds but isn't in flower yet.
This is The Bleeding Heart That Ate New York [g]. It came from a four-inch pot four years ago. It's obviously very happy where it is. There are hostas between it and the grass which I may have to move before they're overwhelmed completely, although the bleeding heart does shrink a bit later in the season after it finishes blooming. They both turn a lovely gold in the fall before all their leaves drop, their stems shrivel, and the bed looks completely empty for several months. I have to keep reminding myself those plants are there when I want to put stuff in that bed in the very early spring.
This is the bed opposite the bleeding heart. The tall plant is a monkshood, which looks like a true blue snapdragon on steroids (it tops out at about Taura's height) in September. Then more hostas, and the pink flowers are my favorite hummingbird attractant, coral bells. I forget the variety, but the foliage has a silver tinge to it, where it's visible out from under the hostas. Not very many things like these two shady beds, but the things that do, just go absolutely bananas. The three hostas in this bed started out as one quart-sized pot four years ago, and the coral bells started as one four-inch pot at the same time.
And two individual annuals that I love and replant every year:
Just your standard edging lobelia, except that it's in mixed colors, which is much prettier than your standard dark or light blue, IMHO. I just love blue and purple flowers.
More dianthus, of course, but the main flower here is linaria, the flowers of which look like tiny snapdragons, although the foliage is very dainty and delicate. Sorry the picture is kind of fuzzy, it's breezy outside today, and linaria bobs in the faintest breath of air. It's one of my alltime favorite annuals.
There's a third annual in my icon, too. Its scientific name is mimulus, but its common name is monkeyflower. I took that picture today, too, of one growing in the tubs on my back patio.
And that's my garden on June 13, 2009!
The front garden. The pink is dianthus, the blue is a dwarf campanula. The purple edging the street end is petunias. I would also like to point out that my neighbor's half of the flower bed is cleared and planted now, and looks much nicer. J asked for my help in picking out plants. I not only got to go to the nursery and spend someone else's money, but she also let me play in her dirt with her when we got back with them. A win-win situation, IMHO. The big plant in the pot is a tomato (in the only warm-and-sunny-enough microclimate I possess), surrounded by portulaca.
A closer view of part of that bed. The white and red-and-white to the far left is the sort of dianthus that is sold as an annual (it's perennial in my garden). The yellow to left center is calendula.
The back garden. Not much to distinguish at that distance, but it's coming right along. There's about fifteen different kinds of flowers blooming in it at the moment. Just no big "oomph" flowers since the iris and the clematis are all but over.
A closer view of the lefthand end, including the last iris blossom for the year, marigolds, yellow columbine, alyssum, snapdragons, hardy geranium, and chives. The tall plant back between the iris and the clematis vine is rudbeckia (black-eyed Susan) which has buds but isn't in flower yet.
This is The Bleeding Heart That Ate New York [g]. It came from a four-inch pot four years ago. It's obviously very happy where it is. There are hostas between it and the grass which I may have to move before they're overwhelmed completely, although the bleeding heart does shrink a bit later in the season after it finishes blooming. They both turn a lovely gold in the fall before all their leaves drop, their stems shrivel, and the bed looks completely empty for several months. I have to keep reminding myself those plants are there when I want to put stuff in that bed in the very early spring.
This is the bed opposite the bleeding heart. The tall plant is a monkshood, which looks like a true blue snapdragon on steroids (it tops out at about Taura's height) in September. Then more hostas, and the pink flowers are my favorite hummingbird attractant, coral bells. I forget the variety, but the foliage has a silver tinge to it, where it's visible out from under the hostas. Not very many things like these two shady beds, but the things that do, just go absolutely bananas. The three hostas in this bed started out as one quart-sized pot four years ago, and the coral bells started as one four-inch pot at the same time.
And two individual annuals that I love and replant every year:
Just your standard edging lobelia, except that it's in mixed colors, which is much prettier than your standard dark or light blue, IMHO. I just love blue and purple flowers.
More dianthus, of course, but the main flower here is linaria, the flowers of which look like tiny snapdragons, although the foliage is very dainty and delicate. Sorry the picture is kind of fuzzy, it's breezy outside today, and linaria bobs in the faintest breath of air. It's one of my alltime favorite annuals.
There's a third annual in my icon, too. Its scientific name is mimulus, but its common name is monkeyflower. I took that picture today, too, of one growing in the tubs on my back patio.
And that's my garden on June 13, 2009!
