Friday, July 18, 2014

Just a little update on the Garden

Mainly pictorial......

It has been so hot, - I am only in the garden early in the morning and in the comparative coolness of the evening.  Except for the middle of the day when I must go out and water pots and move the hoses that drip on trees and shrubs - like the Rose of Sharon which lives close to the house and cannot be watered with a sprinkler.

It is glorious - here is this morning's picture of the fresh blooms.  I have the old faded blooms sitting in a huge glass jar on the porch, in the sun, making natural dye,  along with the jar that holds the remnants of the day lilies that line the front fence.



Now that the Lilies have faded and gone the garden is embracing the yellows that come with midsummer...




and the patio at the back is slowly being devoured by the great vines of the pumpkin and squash and cucumber.  Alas, that is pretty well all they are, - lovely vines whose fruit forms but then withers away.







The Abraham Darby is beginning it's second flush, and the new bee balm I planted this year is a lovely shade of wine in contrast to the scarlet plant that is roaming through the raised bed.







The nicotania that scents the evening so seductively...



and a dahlia my eldest granddaughter gave me on mother's day that has exceeded in height 
any dahlia I have ever seen before!!!!!







 The barn flowers in the far corner of the back garden, where the compost bins live.

and some apricots, not quite ripe but leaning across the neighbour's fence and making my mouth water!!!

Blogger is loath to put pictures where I place them, but there, - one must be content
with what technology one can master
and accept the rest philosophically.......

Today is cooler - tomorrow it might rain.  The garden will be happy, as will I!!

5 comments:

The Weaver of Grass said...

How I wish I could sit in your lovely garden with you in the cool of the evening and smell the scent of your beautiful roses Hildred.

Hildred said...

Ah, I wish you could too, Pat - you would be good company!

Morning's Minion said...

We've had a blessed week of cooler than July's Usual weather. Most years we venture out, as you say, early in the morning and again in the evening when hopefully a breath of air is stirring.
Wondering is your bee balm/monarda might be the cultivar "Raspberry Wine." I enjoyed great billows of that one in my Vermont garden. Kentucky is apparently too humid for it.

Barb said...

Bob just watered our deck plants in containers and used the hose on my back beds. We had some rain this week, but here at altitude, the wind makes the soil dry. Finally my gardens are blooming but nothing like yours. I believe I see a nasturtium vine among the others? Your flowers are loving the compost - I like the colors of your Bee balm, but as you know, mine has turned invasive. I'm pulling out new shoots wherever I find them. Not hot here - I'm still wearing layers.

Hildred said...

I see evidence of the bee balm becoming invasive, - but nothing like the Chinese Underground Railway. I always save a few because they bring those lovely orange lanterns with them, - but otherwise they con't make it through customs..... I will keep an eye on the monarda, Barb.