It is much easier to find six photos for my weekly blog now. The garden is becoming more crowded looking and more colorful every day. Last weekend, we held our plant sale and it was a success by my standard. Most of the plants offered were sold and the surplus was donated to a local non-profit.
The deer have done some damage to my tomato plants and to my Echinacea. Other interesting activity this week was a groundhog but I did not have my phone handy to take his picture.
My raised bed continues to produce tasty onions. I have some beets that are making some wonderful progress and I did spy a yellow squash flower. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
I will post my blog on the Six On Saturday blog this week. Here is the link if you want to stop by https://gardenruminations.co.uk
The heavy rains come. Mild pleasant weather. Tasks continue to be garden planting and container managing. Working on shade garden. Working on native plants.
The rains came this week. I recorded more than 4 inches of rain. Soon thereafter, the sweet shrub on the left bloomed. This is Calycanthus floridus.
The pretty bell shaped flower on the right is Penstemon calycosus. That tubular flower makes it a wonderful nectar plant for butterflies and hummingbirds. I started these from seeds last year.
The Mock Orange (Philadelphus sp) has been a challenge. I moved it two years ago and it has resisted. I have had to prune it several times because of dead branches. It is doing better this year.
The Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ on the right is another edit job. I repotted it in the fall and I am grateful that it returned. It is responding well to its new surroundings. I could have waited to take a photo in the fall when the blooming portion turns its beautiful bronze color.
The blue bloom is Stokes Aster (Stokesia laevis). It has done very well in the garden and spreads peripherally in a mannerly way. Beautiful late spring bloomer.
The bearded iris is a beauty. My iris have not bloomed well this year. We did have a significant cold snap in mid March which I think led to this poor show.
Hope you are enjoying your garden !
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Love the delicate flowers of the Calycanthus floridus.😍
And the philadelphus too. It smells divinely right ?
I also have a white flowered cultivar of the Calycanthus which is ‘Venus’.
Yes, the philadelphus does smell divinely..
I’m glad the plant sale went well and that the mock orange has finally stopped sulking about the move and is doing better – the flowers look lovely.
Sulking is the word I was looking for to describe the disappointing behavior of the mock orange.
How sad to think of this as late Spring, given what my offerings are for the day! I really love Stokes Aster!