Cleome cast out as seed in the spring have been blooming for quite some time. The purple dahlia is having a second flower. Gardy don't dig no tubers. This dahlia will have to survive winter on its own merits.
One of the other Ironweeds that was already here in the crease of the sunny utility valley aims towards peak bloom. It is going to make a lot of seed. I have already found a few of its progeny poking up through the Lush in this part of the garden.
This is also the time when my nemesis, Virgin's Bower, Clematis virginiana blooms. The damn thing is quite lovely. The seeds are that fascinating clematis fuzz. Millions and millions of seeds that make a vine that climbs by tendrils up everything and can turn a garden into a tangled interconnected mess of steel cables. It will smother anything in its way. It roots where ever it touches the ground with a vise like grip. I hate it. It's lovely and I hate it.
It will take years of weeding to be rid of it all, if ever, and it can always sneak back in on the wind. It is more smothering than Virginia Creeper, worse than Poisoned Ivy, more annoying than Blackberries, a faster spreader than Elderberry. Clematis viginiana is my garden nemesis. We will do battle.
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Love the mum. The others look gracious. I use to have & dug those tubers.
I am thinking of the Clematis on the slope....if only the seeds didn't travel and germinate in other spots. I have seen it growing along the roadways in the last few days. It is pretty.
I pinched my mums. It looks like I shouldn't have. They seem to be frozen in time. BTW, I pinched them around the 4th of July and just a tiny amount.
"The damn thing is quite lovely," just about says it all! I battle it and Virginia Creeper.
I am assuming you cut off all the blooms of the clematis? I only had one but I started doing that toward the end of its bloom and it helped. Yours may be too overwhelming.
Yes, weeds can be beautiful too; if only they weren't so damn competitive. The Wall Street bankers of the plant world.
bev
Bev I don't have time for such nonsense, cutting the flowers off, mercy. Might as well just mow it all down. In places it is still a carpet on top of things.
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