The summer perennials are gorgeous this week and the crape myrtles have reached peak blooms. After some rain, there is a deep and diverse color palette. I am hoping your gardens are progressing as well as mine.
On Saturdays, I join the #sixonsaturday group of gardeners from around the world. It is very interesting to see the variety of plants. I hope you will join us. It is very easy to post your own photos. Here is the link https://gardenruminations.co.uk. The gathering is hosted by Jim Stephens. You can find the posting rules on the link.
These two will explain my title for this week. Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummelaria makes a wonderful filler plant as well as a wonderful ground cover. It is a hardy perennial here in the South East USA. It really perks up this urn of Sedum “Autumn Joy”.
The creeping cucumber strictly speaking is a weed but a fascinating one. Melothria pendular is a native here and the vine is delicate. I have not ventured to eat the little fruits. I will leave that to braver souls than me.
Similar in name is a Crape Myrtle “Natchez”. Genus is Lagerstroemia. This cultivar is old timey. There are many popular and more compact cultivars now. I like this one because the red bark shows up so well in winter.
The oak leaf hydrangea cultivar “Ruby Slippers” is beginning to lose some of the ruby color and adopting the bronzy color of the fall.
The encore azalea is in its second blooming of the year. We will have a third bloom before the end of fall.
This prolific Black Eyed Susan is in its third and most glorious to date season. Although this cultivar is not as showy as the “Indian summer” which I have, it is far more hardy. It is putting on a eye catching show.
Grateful for gardening this year as a diversion from the political scene.
Happy gardening!
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Great selection! Glad to hear your garden is performing to expectations and beyond 🙂
Watch out for that creeping Jenny. It’s a hardy perennial even here in Finland. The previous owner must have planted some in a container or hanging basket sometime in 1980s or 90s and it’s STILL here! I hate that stuff and will probably never get it all pulled out, as it’s intertwined throughout the grass. Prolific and determined…not me – the creeping jenny!!!
Have a great week!
Interesting. I have it in containers where it seems quite happy. It has not spread on its own even though I have tried to grow it as a ground cover in shady areas.
I guess it boils down to that category of gardening where the plants forgotten do as well, or better, than the plants you are trying to grow with purpose which only seem to ever struggle. Thank goodness neither of us ever any plants in that last category :DDD
I love the Crape Myrtle flowers and of course this yellow carpet of rudbekias! Do you eat these creeping cucumbers? Here I grow cucamelons (Melothria scabra) certainly close to your variety. But I grow them vertically on a rope.
I also love the crape Myrtle’s. The blossoms are prolific and coat the ground after a rain which we are having this morning. I don’t eat the creeping cukes although I am told that they are tangy in a good way. We grow cucamelons in the Birmingham Botanical Gardens where I volunteer.
Wow to the Rudbeckia!
Your Rudbeckia is simply amazing! My sister has Creeping Jenny in her garden and it takes over, so good to see yours is in a container. 😉 Glad you are having a good summer for the garden. Same here in Germany – plenty of warmth and regular rain. 😃
The black-eyed Susan is a show stopper!
Now that is what I call a rudbeckia, stunning!
I’ll second those wows over the rudbeckia! What a magnificent clump. I can not keep those or heleniums so I have to think of them as one season wonders in my garden.
The rudbeckias have real “wow” factor, they’re glorious.