I don't care how free they are or how much ground I could cover with so many of them. Stella De Oro daylilies are Booor Iiing. They've been tossed over the edge to die and become compost. I just know some of them will live though. You can't kill the damn things.
There are so many more interesting plants out there to choose from like this Clematis stans.
These small shrub like Clematis are now four years old and were grown from seed that hail from the mostly MIA blogger Chuck B. in San Francisco. Look how well they are doing in all that Lush. Just think how nice they will be in the future as a real garden forms around them.
The late summer native wildflowers are starting to bloom. This is very likely Solidago roanensis. It is decidedly different in form than the other goldenrod species here. Even my weeds are more interesting than Stella de Boros. This is a weed that will be allowed to stay. It will be grown and allowed to roam in the garden to be.
The ironweed is another native weed I actually grow deliberately and plan to make more use of as the garden continues to take shape. I'm getting good at recognizing the seedlings. They may be weeds, but in the garden they will be subject to a little more organization.
I might be growing a lot of weeds, but I still have some standards.
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You have the right to be picky and choose what is just perfect for your garden. You have such a good eye! It's amazing that we are already almost through the summer growing season and heading into fall. Enjoy all those blooms!
Siria these are the flowers that signal the end is near. In no time the mountain will be covered in blue asters. They are the last hurrah.
They all look pretty. I always enjoyed the many colors in the Fall time. Most of them weeds as some call them but natures flowers. I do so enjoy the Fall because of so many different colors. You are making some good decisions with what falls out of the ground.
I won't be MIA much longer. And I got a new camera!
Clematis stans sure loves the low spot of a North Carolina mountaintop.
I am not familiar with that Clematis. Wow it is a beauty. I also think your wild flowers are beautiful. Especially the iron weed. I have found a butterfly crysalis on them before.
I love that phrase, 'the garden to be', Christopher...
Stella de Boros - haha! Love your sense of humor. I agree, btw.
bev
And I love Stella d' Oros. What does that say about me?
Save them for me.
Sis 2
Aaack! I guess that means I will have to heel in all those Stella De Boros so they will live until they can be sent to Florida. It may also mean you have fewer choices of what will grow in your sand, heat and humidity. That's a rather big heap you know.
Woot! I forget to tell you Christopher and not-mia Chuck, that the C. stans produced a seedling! Just one, so far, but I sure that is what it is. Not cleaning up until late winter has its advantages.
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