Your garden in August
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Comments (26)This is a question I wrestle with around this time every year. I like to use mainly perennials, so that narrows my choices a lot. Anyway here's what's blooming in my back border. Starting with the heliopsis and going clockwise, monkshood, phlox, anise hyssop,Lorraine Sunshine helopsis, pearly everlasting, daylily, veronica, campanula. I had planned on potted dahlias providing a punch of colour, but the slugs are destroying them. Toward the back.....a solid coloured monkshood, daylilies, heliopsis, and climbing the fence in the back corner, wild cucumber. In my front island bed.....achillea Parker's variety, potentilla in the background, rudbeckia Tiger Eye, dahlia, gazania, pansies and eryngium. There's also a solidago but it isn't blooming yet. Pudge, this is a different variety of yarrow than you showed. Does yours self-seed quite a bit? I also have a different clump of yellow clump of yarrow that has never wandered or seeded. I wish I knew what it was....See Moreshow us your gardens - August 2013 part II
Comments (65)Greenhaven, I'm so glad you posted pictures. Welcome! You've really done a tremendous job in a short period of time. How lucky to have all that ledge and the way you've incorporated the gardens is really great. It all looks quite natural. PL, Love those sunflowers! I've tried them from seed before a handful of times, but as soon as I get them planted the chipmunks come along and dig them up while mocking me. Jewel weed brings me back to nature walks with my mom. Used to use it on poison ivy. I always thought it was a great cure, but as I got older I realized I'm not allergic to poison ivy, so I'm not sure if my "tests" as a child were valid! It looks great in such a mass like that. I guess I made it just in the nick of time to post for August. Hard to believe tomorrow is September. I know there was some talk in another thread about the smaller butterfly bushes. They're kind of hard to photograph, but I have three in a row forming a bit of a hedge and I really like the way they bloom later. There was also a discussion about heptacodium on another thread where everyone said it would break and most were unhappy with it. That really changed the way I'm treating this shrub/tree. I was planning on limbing it up into a tree, but after reading everyone's experiences I've decided to leave it more as a very large shrub, or at least a non-limbed up tree. The hibiscus are in bloom now on the other side of the fence. Those will stay when we get our new fence later this fall. I've never done annual asters before, but this middle bed of the veggie garden starts as lettuce and once the crop is done I let the nasturtium take over. I threw in some annual asters and I have to say I really like them a lot. One of the back beds with zinnias still going. Another bed back there. Holy cow! The bees are insane with the turtlehead and anemone blooming. Interestingly, the bees swarm to the barely open anemone flowers with 5 or 6 of them all huddled and fighting for space. The open flowers are not touched. The lespedeeza is starting its show. I do wish the clethra would bloom just a tad later so the white would be blooming with the pink. Here's a closer shot of one of the back beds. There's a carpet rose blooming in the bed behind the butterfly bushes. I like the peach and blue combo with the physocarpos mixed in for good measure. Love the fairy rose that comes back strong while so many other plants are withering in the heat! The front slope is filled in with all the colorful shrubs. Lobelia and caryopteris. I put them together because the caryopteris can hold up the lobelia when it flops. Cottage garden gone wild! I really, really, really love amsonia hubrichtii. I'll post this picture again when the amsonia and the climbing hydrangea both turn glowing yellow. Ironweed is great this time of year. Okay, okay, I'll stop! LOL! I get carried away. There is so much going on in the garden now and so much more to come. Such a great time of year....See MoreWhat Is Up In Your Garden In August ?
Comments (48)Pcola, I have 12 Earthboxes (which are FANTASTIC) and 12 self-watering 5-gallon buckets (4th season almost over and they're still holding up beautifully) that are assembled with fertilizer for the entire season in a strip at the top of the growing medium and beneath the mulch covers. I've used both regular 10-10-10 and organic fertilizers over the past couple of years and find the 10-10-10 works the best for these applications. I really like gardening with self-watering containers because, other than keeping an eye on the watering system (making sure nothing is leaking or drip lines haven't come out) and tying up the plants as they grow, there are no weeds and hardly any other maintenance the entire season. It's a lot of work in the spring, but probably not any more than someone else with comparable in-ground space. Other people's experiences will vary, but it's what works for me. I also have melons, cucumbers, squash/zucchini, strawberries and fruit trees growing in 14 whiskey barrels, as well as some other fruiting plants in the ground, and I use organic potting mix/nutrients for those since they're easier to apply and don't have a mulch cover on them....See MoreYour garden pics August 2022
Comments (29)Gorgeous flowers, everyone! Makes me happy to hear you're seeing more birds and insects! I, too, am seeing a lot this year -- if we plant it they will come!...See Moremazerolm_3a
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