John Cabot Roses bloomed pink last year, blooming red this year. Maybe a soil problem?
I need to throw a garden party.
Goldenrod is my calendar girl. She announces that summer is waning.
In celebration of all these pretty little posies.
Helianthus - 5 foot tall perennial sunflowers - blooms in huge clumps, celebrating the August heat.
Everywhere I turn, bright bloomers are making me smile.
Clematis do a fine job of covering a deck that is desperate need of painting.
I think this is the very best these gardens have ever looked!* No thanks to me. I imagine the new sprinkler system has inspired them to go hog wild. Because they were never that well cared for when I was schlepping hoses back and forth. :)
With consistent deadheading, you can enjoy a whole summer's worth of Columbines.
Deadheading really helps. Do you go after spent blooms with a scissors?
Heirloom Hollyhocks are just getting started.
I'm relentless when it comes to lopping off their heads... I'm even guilty of weed-wacking the bigguns.
Radioactive pink Coneflowers with some waning Catmint.
... because nearly every perennial will 'fight back' when they are deadheaded ~ by gracing us with another collection of pretty flowers.
Buckets and buckets of bombproof Coreopsis peek out from beneath some larger perennials.
This is the 10th year of gardening at my home.
New {last year} Clematis is coming into her own, decorating one of my scraggly trees.
I never really took that seriously... the saying that it takes 10 years to grow a garden...
It doesn't. Every year is amazing. But, this is my first experience with a well-aged flower patch.
Gazillions of 'seeded themselves' wild Strawflowers but no traditional blue. What's with that??
And, boy, oh, boy is it making this gardening geek happy. I hope you've enjoyed the show.
One utterly delightful Mexican Sunflower
PS: Man, it's hot out there. I'm kind of amazed they're all doing so well in this hot sun. Because Bad Dog and I are way happier inside with the a/c cranked to the max.Happy Tuesday, everyone! Stay cool.
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