In the Garden

 

 

Well this month is just about gone and it went flying by for me. Blogging has not even been on my mind lately. Just too much happening here with the family. We worked for four days getting my 82 year old moms water and sewage working. We were glad it was finally working and then our commode started leaking. LOL!
Did you ever have one of those weeks. My printer quit working, the vacuum is ready to stop working all together and now the transmission on the car is slipping. And the camera is slowly dying on me as I mentioned before, and I feel like crying or throwing it across the yard. Or do I just need to have my eyes checked.
It has been a while.  LOL!
Yet in all this I am still blessed because it is all just material things and cannot compared to all the things that are going on around the world and here in the states.
Excuse the venting gardeners.

Now to the garden………


The lilies are almost finished blooming here but my sad looking roses are getting a few more buds since the nights are cooler.The daylight hours are getting less gardeners and I am not happy seeing the days getting shorter.


The “Cherry Sizzle” Zinnias are just now blooming just as the tall phlox  blooms are blowing away.

This ‘Nora Leigh’ panticula variegated phlox is the last to bloom.
I hate to see the phlox blooms fade away. In my last posting they were in their glory.

The shady window boxes are looking pretty filled with Caladiums, Impatiens, Torenia and Creeping Jenny.  Thanks for the plant suggestions you all gave me to get these shady boxes looking pretty. I love this mixture. I am wondering if the Creeping Jenny will survive in the boxes through the winter freezes to grow again next spring?
I will leave them in the boxes and find out. My other window boxes that are in full sun are starting to look sad but it will soon be time to put pansies in them for fall.

Red Cardinal flowers are still blooming in the red garden bed. I love this flower and need to seed more of them. Maybe getting some blue ones to add to the beds next spring.
My “plants to get” list is never ending. How about yours?

The double blooming ‘Crazy Daisy’s  are gone now and

the Shasta Daisies are slowly fading in the beds and need trimmed.


Rudbeckia and

Helenium now are filling in some spots with their fall colored blooms.

In the woodland bed the Ligularia are blooming now.

Dahlias grown from seed are blooming away in this large container. I have better luck with the seeds than I do the bulbs. None of my bulbs are growing or blooming this year.


I have a Cardinal Vine growing in this pot  with the dahlias. But I have not gotten the camera to cooperate with me yet to get a good picture of the Cardinal vines blooms or the Japanese Anemones that are blooming now in the garden.

This “Atom” Gladioli is a little stunner. I am not fond of growing gladiolas because they always break for me. This one did just that after I got a picture of it while it was raining.

The Lord Baltimore Hibiscus blooms are fading now also.
Where has this summer gone?

The Japanese beetles loved my hibiscus…

They are fond of Rose of Sharon blooms also by the way.
I have to tell you that they were few in numbers this year around my garden and I did not miss them munching my roses and other blooms.

Another flower I tried this summer was this ‘Heavenly Blue’ Petunia. This picture does not capture the blue in them very much but I like this one so much that I will be saving some seeds from them.

The shameless “Naked Lady” or “Resurrection”  Lycoris squamigera lilies have come and gone with only the stems to tell that they were even here.


There are always basket and containers of Impatiens stuck around in those shady spots of my garden.

So this is some of the things that have bloomed or are blooming in the garden.

Everyone have a safe and lovely holiday weekend and….

Happy Gardening,

Lona