September garden picspam
Sep. 5th, 2009 04:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmegaeraThe garden is starting to wind down for the season. Photos behind the cut.
Not too much to see from this distance that's different from the August picture. It's more a matter of losing flowers that are finished (lilies are gone altogether, and the gladiolas and Shasta daisies are almost done), and the spring stuff (alyssum, linaria, snapdragons) coming back to the fore now that the cooler weather is back. Suddenly it's as if I replanted everything [g].
A closer view of the righthand side of the back flower bed, mostly to show off the clematis (whacked back practically to the ground in July) that is once more taller than the fence. And it has buds on it. I didn't know it would do that, but if they actually open before it gets too cold, this will be the first time I've ever had out-of-season blooms on this particular plant. Maybe I ought to whack it back every year [g].
The bleeding heart that ate Puyallup is finally beginning to die back. In another month I will cut it back to the ground for another winter so that the hardy cyclamen hiding under there will be able to bloom in February. It will turn gold first, though, as will the hostas in front of it.
The tubs are starting to look ratty, too -- the mimulus in particular is starting to flop all about. The garlic chives (small white starry flowers just right of center) is blooming nicely. The mint would be blooming if I didn't keep whacking it back [g].
The monkshood is taller than the fence and in bud now. It should be in bloom in a couple more weeks. The pink bergenia is happy the weather has cooled off, too, and is showing its appreciation with several nice flower stalks. I still haven't put the echinacea in the ground yet, but I'm waiting until October, when I clear all the annuals out of the back bed.
The front flower bed, from the front door. The tall white is an aster (close-up below), and the tall green stalk is a volunteer bells of Ireland plant. Other than that, it's mostly just threadleaf coreopsis, and all the spring plants coming back out for a last show. I didn't remember having that many snapdragons in the front bed, but I suspect at least some of them are volunteers. The fairy rose is between bloom spurts, but it's got a lot of buds on it, too, now that the weather has cooled.
From the other direction, including a better view of all those volunteer snapdragons [g]. Also some pansies and calendulas and dianthus, and my neighbor's red lupine and blue campanulas.
My white aster. It was labeled as blue at the nursery, which would have gone terrifically with the threadleaf coreopsis, but I like the white, too. It reminds me a bit of June's oxeye daisies, which, along with foxgloves are ubiquitous along the roadsides here. And it's an incredibly dependable plant.
And that is your September garden picspam [g].
Not too much to see from this distance that's different from the August picture. It's more a matter of losing flowers that are finished (lilies are gone altogether, and the gladiolas and Shasta daisies are almost done), and the spring stuff (alyssum, linaria, snapdragons) coming back to the fore now that the cooler weather is back. Suddenly it's as if I replanted everything [g].
A closer view of the righthand side of the back flower bed, mostly to show off the clematis (whacked back practically to the ground in July) that is once more taller than the fence. And it has buds on it. I didn't know it would do that, but if they actually open before it gets too cold, this will be the first time I've ever had out-of-season blooms on this particular plant. Maybe I ought to whack it back every year [g].
The bleeding heart that ate Puyallup is finally beginning to die back. In another month I will cut it back to the ground for another winter so that the hardy cyclamen hiding under there will be able to bloom in February. It will turn gold first, though, as will the hostas in front of it.
The tubs are starting to look ratty, too -- the mimulus in particular is starting to flop all about. The garlic chives (small white starry flowers just right of center) is blooming nicely. The mint would be blooming if I didn't keep whacking it back [g].
The monkshood is taller than the fence and in bud now. It should be in bloom in a couple more weeks. The pink bergenia is happy the weather has cooled off, too, and is showing its appreciation with several nice flower stalks. I still haven't put the echinacea in the ground yet, but I'm waiting until October, when I clear all the annuals out of the back bed.
The front flower bed, from the front door. The tall white is an aster (close-up below), and the tall green stalk is a volunteer bells of Ireland plant. Other than that, it's mostly just threadleaf coreopsis, and all the spring plants coming back out for a last show. I didn't remember having that many snapdragons in the front bed, but I suspect at least some of them are volunteers. The fairy rose is between bloom spurts, but it's got a lot of buds on it, too, now that the weather has cooled.
From the other direction, including a better view of all those volunteer snapdragons [g]. Also some pansies and calendulas and dianthus, and my neighbor's red lupine and blue campanulas.
My white aster. It was labeled as blue at the nursery, which would have gone terrifically with the threadleaf coreopsis, but I like the white, too. It reminds me a bit of June's oxeye daisies, which, along with foxgloves are ubiquitous along the roadsides here. And it's an incredibly dependable plant.
And that is your September garden picspam [g].
