See Previous | See Next This week there are more lilies! Day lilies and asiatic lilies. Though some other bits of the garden are showing the heat. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows more July colors, and the way my garden gets rather a going-to-seed look this time of year – but with colors! Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years makes my garden almost look put together – always show the pretty side. …This week, my garden…
See Previous | See Next Sorry for being late. But, Ta-da! All the July flowers are now here! Tiger lilies and cherry bells, yarrow and daisies and coreopsis. And there’s echinacea too, blooming in the front garden. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows more lilies. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years shows liatris, too, which isn’t quite blooming yet, but should be soon. …This week, my garden is very awake in the bright, bright Sun.
See Previous | See Next This week my garden is looking just right for wild, rambling, misty mornings. With mosquitos. But ignore the mosquitos. It’s much more romantic without the mosquitos. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years confirms that it’s definitely the season for summer lushness. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years emphasizes that July is also definitely the time of the sea of daisies (which has gone a bit rogue this year, but is still sea-of-daisies-like). …This…
See Previous | See Next This week a couple of my fancy roses have decided to bloom. I never get very many of those, but they are very pretty while they’re here. The one in the picture is El Catala. I might get one more bloom out of her (I have a very shady garden) or a rabbit or a squirrel might decide to eat it instead… Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows a bunch of roses that…
See Previous | See Next This week has given us extremes, from raining buckets, to sunny-and-hot. Yucca flowers are some of my favorites, but always so sadly short-lived. And my roses might be slow to turn up this year, but some at least have a lot more buds than usual – I suppose they like being properly (rain) watered. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years mostly gives hope of more roses – and also daisies coming soon. Looking back…
See Previous | See Next This week my peony is trying to take over my garden by lounging all over every part of it that it can reach. The garden is way too big for such a thing to be possible but it’s still making an impressive attempt. Also, my bearded irises are still a no-show. But, in an interesting twist, I have surprise irises instead that last year I didn’t even know I was planting. I thought I was…
See Previous | See Next I’m a bit under the weather this week. But my garden is all rain, rain, rain, Green! Green! Green! It’s like it’s working to wrap us all up in the idea of (slightly soggy) summertime. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years suggests roses and peonies to come. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years would also like to suggest clematis and penstemmon. …This week things are really bushy. (And there are no irises.)
See Previous | See Next This week my garden is leaning heavily into the woodland look, which means: See more pretty green-and-green in my lovely spurge, which is so obligingly vibrant and bright from shady bits of my front garden. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years gives some very insistent hints that my bright-orange rose, Austrian Copper, should be blooming soon, so there’s more than green to look forward to. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years shows more…
See Previous | See Next This week my garden is pretty. Not a very exciting statement, but it’s at the point of the season where I like to just wander around in it and look at the pretty (including my pigsqeak looking all happy pink and bright!). So, I think it’s really nice. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years suggests my earliest roses – Austen Copper 🙂 – might be showing up soon. Though, it should be noted the…
See Previous | See Next This week is the season of petals all over the car! So much rain (yay!) and the lilacs and flowering chokecherry are looking lush and lovely. And my earliest irises are blooming. So pretty and sweet! Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years definitely supports this as the season of lilacs. (Though I’m sad more of my early irises don’t seem interested in flowering this year, as were hinted at from last year.) Looking back…