The severely neglected gardens started really showing signs of stress this past week. We had a dry spell that actually lasted over a week and a half and with so much going on, I didn’t get out to water them until Friday night. One of the clematis vines took so much wind damage that I finally had to just chop it down to the ground. Thankfully, they are such resilient plants once established; the guy is already starting to send up a new shoot. Between Friday night and Saturday, I found some good time to really get in a weed all the beds and try and tidy things up a bit. I’ve been fighting this huge urge to jump in there and start moving a LOT of the plants around to get things looking better, but with the house up for sale, major changes just aren’t in the cards for this poor garden now.
The Sun drops, beards tongue, columbines and lupines are officially all done for the year. What was left of the bleeding hearts foliage is starting to fade under the heat of the coming summer. The daylilies are beginning to blossom one by one. The phlox has opened up and the monarda has seriously filled out in a glorious hot pink. The guara and blanket flowers are still going strong. The butterfly bush looks to be getting ready to put out flowers and Dahlias are getting bigger and bushier by the day, but still no signs of bloom. It transition time in the garden, but at least there are spots of color everywhere and some beds are a bit more colorful the others. I’ve come to discover each bed has taken on the season in which it was created. The right front bed is very much a spring bed, the side is early summer and the long bed is more of a fall bed. The left front bed is probably the best laid, as it had a lovely show in the spring, and last fall it was my favorite. A few additions last year should make it pretty decent in the summer as well. Must take some good notes for the new house beds!
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