The recent rains and continuing warm temperatures have allowed the garden to keep blossoming. It is lush and full of blooms. Keeping up with the weeds is another story.
Seedheads are becoming more abundant which the birds especially a group of goldfinches seem to be very happy about.
The black-eyed susans are definitely the showstopper again this week. These are a new addition from a local nursery. I misplaced the cultivar name.
The oak leaf Hydrangea quercifolia is beginning to show the bronze coloring of the fall foliage.
The limelight hydrangeas have been magnificent this year. The American beautyberry is just visible to the left. They are fronted by bearded iris and roof iris. The bluebird house was occupied twice this year.
The hardy mums are beginning to bloom. The cultivar is again an unknown.
The lorapetalum had been a 12 foot shrub but it was decimated by the December freeze. The new growth seems healthy so the trunks were cut back to two feet.
This is the other Rudbeckia which has done so well. The “Indian Summer” did suffer from the winter cold and several plants were lost but those which survived have been so beautiful.
Hope to have you join us on Saturday morning for our Six on Saturday group. Here is the link https://gardenruminations.co.uk/
Happy Gardening!
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Glad to hear you’ve had some rain. It made it’s way to us too 🙂
Everything is looking lovely – have a great weekend.
How wonderful that the bird box was used twice this year, that is always encouraging. Love the Rudbeckia.
My oakleaf and limelight hydrangeas are right in line with yours. Beautyberry is just beginning to form berries.
Those shrubs have had a very good year. I am expecting spectacular shows from them this fall.
That Rudbeckia really is splendid.
I am making a list of natives I don’t have yet, and the list is growing. Rudbeckia are such good sports, putting out so many flowers! I also want yellow coneflower and monarda. Goldenrod. Asters. I took some seed from campus last fall, but it did not take. Try again!
The Rudbeckia are fabulous.
These rudbeckias ! 😍😍 gorgeous.
Thank you. I have liked “Indian Summer” but this is a different cultivar which the nursery recommended after the deep freeze killed most of them. I am searching for the name.
Mine is R. fulgida ‘Little Goldstar’ and comes back every year but my winter isn’t the same as yours.
Oh the rudbeckia are definitely show stoppers! The oak leaf hydrangea is also a lovely shrub. Your lime light looks quite pretty, too. 🙂
Oh goodness, that is an amazing wall of rudbeckia! How long did it take to get to that size?
Thank you. I bought them in April from a local nursery. They were planted in April and began blooming in July.
That’s one year’s growth? I’m very very impressed now 😀 And vaguely wondering just how enormous they might get next year!
Yes. The growing conditions for them has been ideal this year. We have had consistent rainfall and warm nights. The soil has been enriched by the compost we add each spring from our own bin.