When everything's huge, you realize it's late summer. The yellow daisies, rescued from an empty house, the white chrysanthemum several years ago bought as a seasonal little thing, now permanent. The sedum Autumn Joy ready to go pink in September, the Montauk daisies will bud white after that.
At that point the front yard will be all about pink and white with a bit of purple remaining in the Russian sage. Some yellow will remain from the nameless daisies which I won't deadhead because the goldfinches love the seeds. Earlier in the year the color scheme's yellows and purple.
I have to lift iris again, since they hardly bloomed this year, even my fancy rebloomers. I think the groundcover is choking and covering the rhizomes which means foliage and no flowers. Need to do some serious yanking out of groundcover and replant the iris. Cooler weather needed. Also energy.
And with next year's crops in mind, I'm starting to save and dry Roma plum tomato seeds from my farm toms.
My own are still green, too soon. But I'm thrilled that the tomato blight which made home growing impossible for several years, seems to have disappeared. Nothing worse than mild blossom end rot to cope with.
Don't you love how I yarn on about crops and disease and blight as if I had a back forty, rather than a few square yards and pots, which I have to defend from rampaging landscapers?
And down the street the gnomes seem to be multiplying. Good year for gnomes.
The fulfillment we get from what we grow is not necessarily size-related at all.
ReplyDeleteTrue. Look at city dwellers with window boxes. They're seriously proud of them. Quite right, too.
DeleteThe gnomes here are not growing well. What’s the secret.?
ReplyDeleteI must ask mt neighbor. Probably the right sort of fairy dust is needed.
Deleteit is funny how the dominant colors change through the season. spring is pink and purple and white, summer is yellow and orange and red.
ReplyDeleteSome people (and you are one of them) have the ability to grown an incredible assortment of things in a very tight space. Your garden always DOES look like a huge expanse with all the different specimens throughout. Our little balcony forest is still in a state of upheaval as Resident Chef seems convinced the painters will show up 'any time now' and the furniture is still parked in the middle of the living room floor. It's been 2 1/2 weeks and no sign of them. We've waited nearly 3 years now - so one wonders if another year or two is in the works. Hurry up - and wait.
ReplyDeleteI can guar.an.tee that if you move the furniture out again, they'll be at your door.
DeleteMaybe if you just talk loudly in the hallways about having put it out again, that would work?
That's my exact thought - move it out and they'll come but unfortunately the person that does the furniture moving doesn't subscribe to that theory.
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