Early summer I potted a couple zucchini plant starts I was gifted. Now, I know zucchini should be easy to grow, and indeed the surviving plant was healthy and proliferous. It’s just that the bunnies loved it so much! Every time it got a bloom – next few days, gone. It did make a few very small fruits, however the bunny got those too.
Fun, bloomful, but not able to make it to “fruitful”.
What a wonderful sight! Honey bees enjoying the late summer, almost fall garden.
The First Frost hosta has formed seed pods. I am so tempted to harvest them. But knowledge tells me that if I want more First Frost hostas, I need to divide it. And I have no more room for hostas. And the deer just eat hostas to the stem up north.
I will give First Frost a haircut, and let the seed pods go.
If I could have 100 Rainforest Sunrise hostas, I would be delighted.
Gorgeous all season, and late summer lavender blooms on red scapes.
Yes, please.
When a bear likes your solar lights as much as you do, but nevertheless leaves it behind, semi intact, and still working, and you discover it while clearing the ferns from the area that will house next year’s 1 year old pollinator created daylily seedlings. You use a shepherd’s hook – that wasn’t bent by said bear – and holds it (kind of), hoping you will find the hanger, somewhere.
The bird feeder was not quite so fortunate.
One of my favorite times of the day is the first look outside at the gardens in the morning. The sun catching the colors. The dew still on the leaves and pine branches. So beautiful!
Summer in the garden is incredible, but fall is still pretty doggone good.
This morning I ventured outside and what did I see? A ripened South Seas seed pod! I suspect I would have more seeds had I gone out yesterday, as one chamber was already empty, but 4 is still good. Thank you pollinators! I stand in awe of your skills! Enjoy the Autumn Joy sedum!
I don’t remember the Chocolate Drop sedum and the Sundazzle sedum stretching so much toward the sun in prior years. Maybe. I suppose that will be another research project for the winter.
My daughter-in-law puts the shorter sedum in the front of the taller sedum. I have a couple rootings in the seedling box. I may try that.
It was a slow return for the purple shamrock this year. At the beginning of the season I was preparing myself for the end of that era. But it came back by June, and it remains in its usual spot.
The purple shamrock is one of two summer garden plants that come inside in mid-fall. They go in my office – all four feet wide – and greet me every morning with their year-round blooms.
Up north this past weekend, we had a 38°F night. When that starts further down south here, I start to watch the lows. Nights consistently below 40°F and time for them to come in.
I’m hoping that is still a while 🙂
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