Someone Else's Flowers

Summer Shrubberies

The baby shrubs are picking up some size and offering up the first of what in years to come will hopefully be copious amounts of bloom. I planted seven of these Bottlebrush Buckeyes, Aesculus parviflora. This is the biggest and gets the most sun. The rest are still twigs. Living twigs at least.

Hydrangea paniculta 'Pinky Winky' is doing well in the ridge top garden. It starts white and turns pink. These are rather round flower heads for a H. paniculata. They definitely don't look conical like all the pictures online. It's a mystery. I'll have to see what happens next year.

The Oakleaf Hydrangea, Hydrangea quercifolia have grown the best of all my twiglings. They are full on shrubs now.

This compost pile hydrangea bloomed with such a huge head I saved it. I assume it to be Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle'. That is a very likely candidate for trimmings of something that could land in the compost. Now it lives in the garden.

It's not all white out there. We have other colors in the sunny utility meadow, the roadside vegetable garden and in my roadside beds.

The colors of the hundreds and hundreds of daylilies run the full gamut available.

But in the big picture there is still a whole lot of green. The tall flower meadow really gets going in August. It is a late summer into fall extravaganza of awesomeness. I try to be patient because after that it gets cold.

Now is the time to enjoy the shrubs of summer and to ponder where there might could be more and adding a bit to the color selection.

The Bottlebrush Buckeye

On My Way To Dinner

I go by the Gooseneck Loosestrife

Up past the driveway side bed

Beside the hillside bed behind the strawberry patch

Then all the way to the east end just to have a look

And linger a moment by the big daylily bed

Because some where in there is my supper. Tonight I had baked zucchini crisps.

And I tugged this one armed carrot out that will go in tomorrow's salad.

It's not that far to go fetch dinner and the view along the way is nice.

White And Blue

And Uncle Ernie Too.

Big Dill

It's 4th of July weekend and on cue the floral explosion of the wild cultivated gardens is underway.

The roadside vegetable garden won't be left out. A full row of perfectly spaced, self seeded dill has burst forth in bloom.

There is plenty of red glare.

And puffs of grass amid all the sparkling waves of color.

Out By The Scenic Byway

I do my part to slow the traffic down.

A Few Daylilies

They're here.

In probably every color in the available spectrum.

There is the vibrant orange of Asclepias tuberosa too. My editing has revealed the first self sown one of these I have found.

She wants to buy and plant more dayliles. I promised to weed a space next to a year old bed of new daylilies so she wouldn't spray it and kill every thing. I saw Beebalm, alliums and Angelica in that space she wants to fill with more daylilies. I saw daylilies in there that were planted and abandoned.

I brought a Goat's Beard home to my garden. Then I found another much bigger one when I went on a short walk to scout the first section of my new path extension into the forest behind the cozy cabin.

The new path extension will begin just past these azaleas that are having a decent bloom for the first time since I planted them five or six years ago. Is that how long it takes for a deciduous azalea to settle in? Good thing I'm here for the duration.