A Short Walk In The Garden

I missed a few Bloom Day posts because........ This mostly green stroll through the garden is strewn with flowers if you look close enough. It will have to do for my return to this month's Bloom Day offering. The flowers were not my focus on this walk in the garden. I was trying to capture the mood.

I'm running into another photo storage filing error limit it seems. I never did anything about the last one. The picture taking system for the blog could crash at any time. I have too many pictures to store and not enough perky brain power to want to deal with the technology fix. So, I procrastinate.

I had chemo yesterday. Today I need a nap. So, I will leave you here to go for a short walk through the summer garden on your own. Click on a picture for the slide show. At the end is a nice picture of the Bottlebrush Buckeye and 'Lemon Drop' Azalea in full bloom.

Some Flowers In The Garden

It would be a shame not to show you some fetching pictures of the chicory with Miscanthus 'Morning Light'.  

It is hard not to smile looking at such a pretty sky blue fallen to the ground.

The Bottlebrush Buckeye is now showing.

And the 'Lemon Drop' azalea perfumes the air.

In The Summer Sunshine

Hundreds and hundreds of daylilies are blooming across the mountain top in the summer warmth and sunshine. This is Bulbarella's doing. I just got caught in the expansion.

Daylilies like to expand on their own and pop up in all kinds of places in all kinds of daylily colors.

The roadside vegetable garden is surrounded by a riot of summer bloom.

The Hydrangea 'Haas Halo' has turned white to full bloom. Today it was covered in some kind wild bees.

As I wander slowly, gingerly, through a wild garden learning how to breathe once more.

VFYFP

The view from your front porch. In much better focus.

Where I can see the varmints coming from my bird's eye view from above. I never tire of the view as it constantly changes and interacts with the seasons.

The Vibration Of The Bear

I had one fleeting chance to get a picture and this is what I got. Somehow it speaks to my chemo state of mind. I like the landscape painting quality found in the vibration. Click for a bigger picture.

On Chicory Mornings

 

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There was a timid spurt of energy that started last weekend. I wandered out in the garden to do whatever got done. I wasn't sure what was actually possible.

The first day went well, an hours long, slow walk with some light editing. On the second day I picked up the weed eater.

There was a mowing. The timid spurt of energy was used up. It hasn't helped that I have been to the dentist twice to have two sharp bone spurs that were piercing my gums polished off my lower jaw. They were starting an infection that was noted early in all of the blood that has been sucked out of me. The garden looks better.

The Flowers Draw Me In

I can see them from a distance. A lush green meadow sprinkled with ever more flowers as summertime begins. White and yellow are the dominant colors for now.

The Persicaria polymorpha has reached blooming height. The Stewartia pseudocamellia is having its most flowers ever. Many springs the latent flower buds get frozen. I should go have a closer look. All the flowers don't show up as well in pictures taken from afar.

Iris ensata, the Japanese iris is the last iris to bloom. That makes it a more reliable bloomer in a high elevation garden.

Clyde Redmond, the Louisiana iris hangs in there. I think they need more elbow room to be happy than I have been able to give them. Still, the Louisiana iris are the second best iris blooming in my garden. Clyde liked Maui better.

Out in the sunshine of the roadside vegetable garden, the feral parsnips are in bloom.

Parsnips will self-sow in abundance if you let them. So will a lot of other weed flowers. The vegetable garden is on light duty this year, so all the flowers can be let be.

The sky blue of chicory heralds a change of the seasons and adds to a growing floral abundance.

I am hoping the Baptisia alba will set seed. I want to plant more.

Hydrangea arborescens 'Haas Halo' gets ready to bloom high on the low spot of a North Carolina mountain top. The flowers draw me outside.