your August garden picspam
Aug. 6th, 2009 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmegaeraA week of record-breaking temperatures takes its toll. However, there are some nice things -- and one lovely surprise.
Behind the
The freshly-deadheaded front garden (well, mostly -- deadheading threadleaf coreopsis (the clump of yellow speckles) is an exercise in futility, so I don't). Mostly petunias, and the fairy rose, and my neighbor's gorgeous purple penstemons (the bees are fanatical about them -- they crawl all the way inside until you can't see anything but their hind ends). The dead-looking stalks in the middle are going-to-seed poppies (I want the seeds, so they have to be ugly for a couple more weeks), the white is mostly alyssum, and the pink in the back is an Oriental lily.
The back garden, which has not been deadheaded or weeded since the hot spell from hell. The gold mounds are gem marigolds, the tall gold daisies are rudbeckia, the pink stalks are hollyhocks (close up further down) and gladiolus, the blue speck is a morning glory! (more below)
Pink hollyhock and gladiolus, white 'David' phlox, more going-to-seed poppies.
The Very Happy Lily, which to give you some perspective, is in front of a six-foot-tall fence. It's an Oriental and smells divine from clear across the yard -- I forget the variety, having bought it at the Seattle Flower and Garden Show, which is where all my lilies originated. It's been in the ground a couple of years.
My first-ever success at growing morning glories in this yard!!! (not that it's all that successful -- this is the 2nd blossom so far, although there are more buds, but it's better than the sprouts that never got more than six inches tall last year -- they never died, but they never got more than six inches tall -- really bizarre). I have grown morning glories elsewhere (mostly in California and Ohio) with much success, but they're a real challenge here for some reason. The white flowers are snapdragons, the yellow rudbeckia again. Phlox buds everywhere, too.
The Bleeding Heart That Ate Puyallup has shrunk some, here towards the end of the season, but it's still a nice big green clump. Lavender blossoms on the hostas in front of it are almost over. Purple and white petunias and lobelia, yellow and red monkeyflowers (a really bad combination -- will not repeat that one) in the containers, plus several kinds of mint and chives in the smaller pots.
The monkshood tops the fence, more hostas almost finished blooming, etc. With added cat. That's Morgan, who hopefully will pitch the grass he's consuming in the picture before he re-enters the house. The small pots on the stool are bachelor's button seedlings that will bloom through the fall.
I am pleasantly amazed at how well I did growing things from seed this year. The poppies, monkeyflowers, rudbeckia, alyssum, marigolds, hollyhocks, morning glories, and about half a dozen others. I'm getting better at this sort of thing...
And that is your August garden picspam!
Behind the
The freshly-deadheaded front garden (well, mostly -- deadheading threadleaf coreopsis (the clump of yellow speckles) is an exercise in futility, so I don't). Mostly petunias, and the fairy rose, and my neighbor's gorgeous purple penstemons (the bees are fanatical about them -- they crawl all the way inside until you can't see anything but their hind ends). The dead-looking stalks in the middle are going-to-seed poppies (I want the seeds, so they have to be ugly for a couple more weeks), the white is mostly alyssum, and the pink in the back is an Oriental lily.
The back garden, which has not been deadheaded or weeded since the hot spell from hell. The gold mounds are gem marigolds, the tall gold daisies are rudbeckia, the pink stalks are hollyhocks (close up further down) and gladiolus, the blue speck is a morning glory! (more below)
Pink hollyhock and gladiolus, white 'David' phlox, more going-to-seed poppies.
The Very Happy Lily, which to give you some perspective, is in front of a six-foot-tall fence. It's an Oriental and smells divine from clear across the yard -- I forget the variety, having bought it at the Seattle Flower and Garden Show, which is where all my lilies originated. It's been in the ground a couple of years.
My first-ever success at growing morning glories in this yard!!! (not that it's all that successful -- this is the 2nd blossom so far, although there are more buds, but it's better than the sprouts that never got more than six inches tall last year -- they never died, but they never got more than six inches tall -- really bizarre). I have grown morning glories elsewhere (mostly in California and Ohio) with much success, but they're a real challenge here for some reason. The white flowers are snapdragons, the yellow rudbeckia again. Phlox buds everywhere, too.
The Bleeding Heart That Ate Puyallup has shrunk some, here towards the end of the season, but it's still a nice big green clump. Lavender blossoms on the hostas in front of it are almost over. Purple and white petunias and lobelia, yellow and red monkeyflowers (a really bad combination -- will not repeat that one) in the containers, plus several kinds of mint and chives in the smaller pots.
The monkshood tops the fence, more hostas almost finished blooming, etc. With added cat. That's Morgan, who hopefully will pitch the grass he's consuming in the picture before he re-enters the house. The small pots on the stool are bachelor's button seedlings that will bloom through the fall.
I am pleasantly amazed at how well I did growing things from seed this year. The poppies, monkeyflowers, rudbeckia, alyssum, marigolds, hollyhocks, morning glories, and about half a dozen others. I'm getting better at this sort of thing...
And that is your August garden picspam!
