This has not been a good year for Daylilies. The heat expedited their bloom season, foliage turned yellow and brown prematurely, and the flowers lacked their usual vibrant colors. My Chicago Knock-Out has been the last to hang on and these two are its final blooms of 2010.
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white heat …
It’s been 90s here in NY for several days. Some plants don’t like, others flourish. An elderly gardening woman neighbor a couple of blocks away gave me a dry, hard, brown root last autumn and said ‘it doesn’t look like anything now ….’ I knew it would, planted it and have been watching the real [...]
Big Storm, Little Rain
Last night’s storm blew over several container plants and took the top out of my tallest Butterfly Bush. The wind was fierce, there was lots of thunder and lightning, but the rain was mediocre by comparison. For the past week it’s been 90+F every day and gardening must be done before 9 AM – the [...]
garden is where ….. ?
This blog is inspiring topics for me — ways to present plants and growth as themes. I think of all the reasons I love plants, and the ways they manifest as themes in life, and the meaning of the world. I try to increasingly embrace new art and methodologies, new ways of growing & sowing [...]
cool plant development …
I like doing these entries by ‘theme’ but here are some general pics of what is happening around my little land It has been hot after a wet spell so growth escalated. Re Lya’s mention of memorial day – no matter that this is a gardening site, to me the garden is a celebration [...]
The Start of Summer in the South
One of the first things I learned when I arrived in Georgia, a few decades ago, is that Summer starts on Memorial Day (the last Monday in May) and ends on Labor Day (the first Monday in September) – who cares what the rest of the world does? I also learned that one cannot wear [...]
The Brighter the Better
This spring Pacific Northwest gardeners seem to be crazy for chartreuse. I only say this because the small nursery I own is constantly running out of plants like Hakonechloa ‘Allgold’ and H. aurea, Hosta ‘Feather Boa’ and Campanula ‘Dickson’s Gold’…basically, anything that can pass for yellow-green is scooped up. I wonder if this is a [...]
weigelas
There are a lot of things to photo but these strong shrubs all came into bloom – some blooms are on their way out; sometimes the plant doesn’t bloom consistently as in first one branch and then another …. that’s it from the empire state today ……
a different kind of plant …..
We went to get manure yesterday at Howard Quimby’s in Marlboro, NY. Howard is 90 and he has had this farm since the 1940s. He’s a hip guy who does a variety of farming things, including growing grapes which he sells to local wineries and raising goats, which, unfortunately for me, he sells to people [...]
Hydrangeas
Because I have a sunny garden, Hydrangea was not the first shrub I thought about when I started to downsize, bought a new, smaller house and became a gardener a few years ago. But my son Alex, who had bought a new house a year earlier, had this great big Hydrangea next to the rain-pipe along his carport (a [...]