And Yet More Garden Stuff

Here are some more pix from around the garden, just miscellaneous stuff I have photos of and wanted to share.  They may give you more of a taste of what this place is like.

I'm afraid the second large Sugar Maple (on the right) out on the golf course has died.  It's not completely gone yet, but I don't think there's any coming back from this.  Two years ago it was as luxuriantly green as the other big maple to its left.  I expect that this fall we will see it cut down.

Right within our own garden we have a tiny tree, a Japanese Maple know for its red foliage.  It has adopted a horizontal growth form, but we don't know how large it will get.

I also spotted a pot of Pansies tucked back beneath some taller plants at the back of the garden.  Pansies are one of the spring flowers here, but suffer from summer heat, so I expect Mrs. F.G. put them back there to protect them.  They may bloom again in the fall.

The towers that were put u p and planted a few weeks ago are already cascading with plants.  They provide a place where Mrs. F.G. can experiment with plants that otherwise have no space.

I'm still astonished at the colour of our Peonies.  With our lack of heavy rain which beats Peonies down, and our lack of any heat wave (!) they are lasting longer than usual.  I think the colour comes out even batter on cloudy days.

Out freont we have our little patriotic display, a small but important statement we wanted to make.

And in 'scenes from a life in a wheelchair' we have a bask in my wall where I ran into the wall with my footplates!