Yesterday was a very hot and humid day.
I managed to do some weeding for a couple of hours early (not early enough).
At last a sign that the butterflies do like this plant, butterfly weed, asclepias tuberosa.
This is the east end of the bed, there is another orange daylily further west that I should move to this grouping.
More daylilies have opened:
This is one of my favorite colors, Prairie Blue Eyes. It was just a happy accident that the lychnis self seeded nearby.
and this one is Blueberry something and is next to some perilla which compliments it nicely.
This is a clump of unknown daylilies that I moved from the shop wall bed to the front of the house in the dining room foundation bed:
It is amid a bed of self- seeding annuals. This is the seed pod of nigella damascena or 'Love in a Mist'. I have the white variety. I think the pods are as interesting as the blooms but they will self-seed even in the lawn.
I believe this one is Bama Music in front of the new porch near Jackmanii clematis. (I won't lie; that is crab grass surrounding it). I am working my way to that bed........slowly.
I think this one is Fairy Tale Pink. It is in the New Bed (now several years old).
For some strange reason I keep forgetting to take pictures of the yellows.....maybe today I will do that.
Others Blooming:
This is a darker version of salvia farinacea which has self-seeded for several years in this spot. It may be due to the soil or hybridizing with others of various shades, including white.
These are the ones at the end of the other bed that are much pales. See the white one in the back to the right.
This patch of rudbeckia (Prairie Sun) is next to the salvias. It has also been self-seeding from a few years now. I think I have lost the darker band of gold around the green eye but it is still very pretty.
This is a pale yellow Buck rose right behind the salvia and rudbeckia. They are too tall but maybe it will begin to grow again.
I see the volunteer squash is creeping up on all of them.
This is a phlox in the bed outside the kitchen. I noticed that the bloom is somewhat variegated.......
I am throwing this one in to prove I did do some weeding (here with the string trimmer). That is perilla wilting in the sun.
Garden
I take no credit for this squash since it came from the volunteer from last year's yellow squash:
But I did plant the carrots in the whiskey barrel: This is just a sample but it is very nice and sweet.
BTW, I saw a half barrel at the local hardware and it was priced $69.95! Egads! I sure never paid that for this one.
The rest of the garden is pathetic this year.
I managed to do some weeding for a couple of hours early (not early enough).
At last a sign that the butterflies do like this plant, butterfly weed, asclepias tuberosa.
This is the east end of the bed, there is another orange daylily further west that I should move to this grouping.
More daylilies have opened:
This is one of my favorite colors, Prairie Blue Eyes. It was just a happy accident that the lychnis self seeded nearby.
and this one is Blueberry something and is next to some perilla which compliments it nicely.
This is a clump of unknown daylilies that I moved from the shop wall bed to the front of the house in the dining room foundation bed:
It is amid a bed of self- seeding annuals. This is the seed pod of nigella damascena or 'Love in a Mist'. I have the white variety. I think the pods are as interesting as the blooms but they will self-seed even in the lawn.
I believe this one is Bama Music in front of the new porch near Jackmanii clematis. (I won't lie; that is crab grass surrounding it). I am working my way to that bed........slowly.
I think this one is Fairy Tale Pink. It is in the New Bed (now several years old).
For some strange reason I keep forgetting to take pictures of the yellows.....maybe today I will do that.
Others Blooming:
This is a darker version of salvia farinacea which has self-seeded for several years in this spot. It may be due to the soil or hybridizing with others of various shades, including white.
These are the ones at the end of the other bed that are much pales. See the white one in the back to the right.
This patch of rudbeckia (Prairie Sun) is next to the salvias. It has also been self-seeding from a few years now. I think I have lost the darker band of gold around the green eye but it is still very pretty.
This is a pale yellow Buck rose right behind the salvia and rudbeckia. They are too tall but maybe it will begin to grow again.
I see the volunteer squash is creeping up on all of them.
This is a phlox in the bed outside the kitchen. I noticed that the bloom is somewhat variegated.......
I am throwing this one in to prove I did do some weeding (here with the string trimmer). That is perilla wilting in the sun.
Garden
I take no credit for this squash since it came from the volunteer from last year's yellow squash:
But I did plant the carrots in the whiskey barrel: This is just a sample but it is very nice and sweet.
BTW, I saw a half barrel at the local hardware and it was priced $69.95! Egads! I sure never paid that for this one.
The rest of the garden is pathetic this year.
