Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Garden Update

Our garden is growing as if it's had too much rain!  Butterfly season has arrived, along with flowers that provide beautiful fragrance.  I can't keep up with the weeding, so we've hired some help!  Here are a few of what were blooming over the last three weeks.

A very bright Painted Daisy.

A small but beautiful Spiderwort, one of the Transcantias.

These are some of the huge bright pink 'napping' peonies, double blooms so they don't serve the bees like are white ones do, but very pretty.  Sadly, they are so large and heavy that they fall over and lie on the ground to take their 'nap'.  The lawnmower doesn't like it.

These royal blue Iris are just stunning, a garden highlight before our day lilies start blooming.

Can't leave out the white Iris, they'd feel left out.

A tiny pink wild Geranium.

And tiny pink blooms on a 'wild' rose bush, wild in the sense that we just ignore it and it keeps blooming.  Don't know where it came from.

And here's a mystery plant for you.  Does anyone know it?  Believe it or not, it's an Allium, known correctly as Allium siculum, but the common name Mediterranean Bells seems much nicer to me.  The blossoms face downwards, and the hornets obviously like to visit.

This is what the garden looks like as a whole, lots of green plants growing like mad.  In a month it will be day lilies up front, and a month after that it will be the 8 foot high false sunflowers along the back.

If you're interested in the veggie garden, here it is, or most of it.  Mostly a garlic crop, along with my row of enormous rhubarb plants in the back.  A few tomatoes on the left, but blight keeps wiping them out.


14 comments:

  1. Beautiful flowers, FG.

    Our local nursery provides blight proof tomato plants here, FG. We love them.

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  2. Oh all your flowers are doing well and look so pretty. Looks like lots of rhubarb too. I know what you mean about the weeds, I can't keep up either!!

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  3. Love that mystery plant. Beautiful. Carol

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  4. what glorious colours, and love that mystery flower. Blue iris, rich colours, and peonies, they are my favourites. Sadly we do not get cold enough for them to grow here.

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  5. Good morning!:) I knew you were interested in plants after your comment, and you have a lot of pretty flowers in your garden, a joy to see. I have never seen the Mediterranean Bells here in Portugal,...such an unusual plant.

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  6. Wow that sure is some impressive gardens you have, great photos as usual.

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  7. You do have a great deal of weeding to do for that beautiful flower garden. I am glad you hired somebody to help you. Those are definitely HUGE rhubarb leaves! :-)

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  8. Beautiful, Stew. Your photography is excellent. And, boy, do you have some seasons over there!! Btw - I'll be doing more on the Jacobites in due course - thanks for all your wonderful comments, really appreciated.

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  9. Gorgeous flowers! Your garden is very big and very lush. I guess you've been getting lots of rain there too. It's such a beautiful season and passes all too quickly. Enjoy. Pam

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  10. Such a beautiful time of year!
    I'm not sure what year they put the Baldwin Steps in.

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  11. gorgeous blooms, super gorgeous colors!! you are lucky to have help, we have tried to find someone to weed and deadhead with no luck whatsoever!! your vegetable garden looks healthy, mine is dreadful so far - thus the reason i have not shared pictures!!! next year, i don't think i will be starting with seeds but rather plants from the garden center!!!

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  12. WOW I can sure see how all that gardening could become overwhelming and especially this time of year with everything growing so fast. Really nice to see all those different kinds of flowers. As nice as it all is I can understand your move to Meaford even more. Sometimes things just get to be too much and especially so now in these Senior years.

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  13. Your place is so very similar to ours. Lotsa green
    MB

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