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.
A beautiful sight – a ripened daylily seed pod. The spiders seem to like it too. Hopefully, the seeds are viable.
Ever so slowly, the Autumn Joy sedum are starting to pink up.
A couple interesting things I noticed in the garden this year –
This very healthy hosta has a small area of variegation. I have seen this in years past pictures too. i’m wondering if one of our bee or bird friends accomplished something new next to the existing hosta, or if it has to do with sun exposure. It looks very healthy. That puckering has always been like that. It also easily gets things trapped on the leaves – but that has always been that way too. Some snowy day in January I will have to do more research.
This past week I also noticed the Ivory Queen hosta has a few white blooms with purple veining this year. Usually they are all purple. My husband even pointed it out.
Interesting. I don’t mind white blooms but I am curious.
I’m guessing sun exposure may play into that one as well. That hosta gets a lot of sun exposure, most intensely in mid June to mid July. I try to shield it with lawn chair placement during that time but eventually I will swap it out. Just not sure with what. A daylily would be too vulnerable there.
Maybe a low growing sedum would do well there. Maybe one of the breakage rootings.
I say no to some very “good” stuff, so I can make time for better stuff. Sometimes there isn’t a choice, but when there is – think. Time is finite. Use your voice. Make that choice. And then … Rejoice!
Here’s some Rejoice in the Garden time
Susan's Daily Garden 