For the garden, it's been a great June. Just enough rain so I don't have to water. Enough sunshine to dry things out in between.
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| I stuck an extra tomato plant into this sunny pot. I think I'm going to regret this :-) |
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| Perennial foxglove in the shade garden. |
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| I have these two astilbe growing right next to each other, but they are such different sizes! I obviously wasn't paying attention to height when I ordered them. |
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| I moved the remaining bee balm last fall from a garden I've abandoned, and they are doing nicely in their new spot. |
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| One of the containers in the shade on the back patio. |
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| I'm loving this bed --it has tomatoes, basil, cilantro, marigolds, a small leaved/flowered clematis, and then a corn and pea plant that Emma started in her biology class in cotton balls in the fingers of a latex glove :-) The corn is astonishingly big, and pea plant is climbing the tomato trellis and has flowers. We might get some peas! |
I also finally got an ID on a vine that grows behind a bed of species-daylilies. I've posted about it before:
Turns out it's called "smooth carrionflower". I don't know why it's called that, but it was nice to get an ID. Now when I pull it, I know what I'm pulling :-)
All the flowers look beautiful! It's hard to imagine regretting a tomato plant. And carrionflower seems like a good name for a weed.
ReplyDeleteWe can only hope that carrionflower does not smell like carrion!
ReplyDeleteSuch pretty astilbe! I love its flowers, but I have trouble getting it to do well here. Probably because it's in dry shade and I forget to water it:) Carrionflower must be the only weed I don't have here!
ReplyDeleteI have the same yellow Foxglove but it does not do well for me. It kind of languishes and then fades away. Yours look very happy, like they are making a nice clump.
ReplyDeleteYou have a number of beautiful flowers I have had limited to no success with. Foxglove? You can actually grow a *perennial* foxglove? I love how cottage garden-y foxglove looks, but I can never get it to come back! And what is with your astilbe?! Mine is supposed to look like yours, but it's blooms are never anything but a sickly-looking yellowish-white. I'm torn between admiration and envy of your green thumb.
ReplyDeleteI have only recently had luck with astilbe. I think it's because Rob built a drywell right off the porch, for the rain gutter to drain into. It traps the water and the allows it to seep out into the soil --that's where I have the astilbe planted (plus it's mostly shade). This perennial foxglove only comes in yellow, and it's a bit shorter than the others I've seen. I got it from a friend. I've tried planting the other kind and I have the same issue: it never returns from seed.
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