Hackberry Trees, etc, #4

We are talking about gardens from all corners of the world, and all places in between. Lots of invasives make their way here too. We came from here:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/994468/

Hi Sharon,
Thanks for new thread.
Yes, last is mine.
The weather sounds terrible, but I'm very impressed with the response of the daylilies. Trust the weeds to take advantage of the situation.
Breakfast and barbecue tomorrow,
Nite. Off to bed.
Charlie

Garden #3.Giant bellflower (Brantwood) and delphinium (in bud)
Trace of mullein and red hot poker (just planted)

Oriental poppy Allegro

Purple mullein.

Big betony.

Get a lot of mileage from perennial salvias.
Older one: East Friesland. Like the violety color.

Annual filler. Had to really dig up this area.
Lavatera (Silver Cup).

Great photos Charlie...I love that oriental poppy Allegro.....

Leaving tomorrow, but before I go, here is a sunset shot from earlier tonight....

Fantastic picture Sharon.
The zones of orange-yellow really stand out against the darker background.
They also give a kind of glowing effect, like the hotter and colder colors emitted by a fire.
Sounds like you're going to pretty busy in Chicago.
Sure to be fun too.
Look forward to more pictures and info when you return.
Charlie

Peony (Karl Rosenfeld), with OP behind

Giant bellflower (Brantwood).

Charlie, my friend...
i sure have missed your pictures and your posts!!
Now I am going to scroll back up and see what you have been up to.....

Haute cuisine: Racoon style.

Hi Sharon,
Great to hear from you.
Hope you got everything done in Chicago
and you've not returned to too many weeds.
Been so humid last few days here, have been lying low.
Sounds that your weather was not so great up North.
Your friend, Charlie

Sharon,
Racoon one - maybe don't click on image for a larger view!

Too late, already did!!! Aaarrrggghhhhh....cute little guys, but dastardly...

Weeds weeds weeds and daylilies need to be deadheaded. It is so so so hot here, too. And I will need to wait till tonight to water because so many need water.

It will take me the rest of the weekend to get caught up, maybe longer.
I have my little grandson till tomorrow, so not much posting for me at the moment!

Enjoy
That's the young guy - not the weeds!

One small portion of my mess...

and the roses

Picture #1
Sharon - you mentioned deadheading.
Difficult to walk through the bed to do it?
Have a problem myself with not leaving enough access to parts of a bed.
As said been too humid for much work outside - OK now.
I need to tidy up irises in biggest garden.
Picture #2
Very pretty roses.
Though have complaints about getting ripped by roses within a perennial bed,
would say roses are very reliable and and bloom at a very convenient time. They really fill in a (part of a) bed with color.

The daylily bed that you see, as well as some of the others have been established for maybe 4 years or more, at one time there were paths between, and still I can find my way through, but I do need to do some thinning out.

The roses are at points, not so much mixed in to beds, outer corners, or against the house, so they are not so hard to get to. I will make my way through all of it, just not yet. Too hot today, and i am much too tired.

Some of our beds are quite dry - watering.
Sorting out some of my own garden records.
(They are so partial, I must be nuts!)
Went to lunch with couple of gardening friends.
Good friends and very interested to see what they are doing with a small garden: big clumps of medium and tall perennials, but quite spaced out and mulched. Also small trees.
Interesting, but seems in scale. Very neat garden.
Sounds like you need an early night.

I was just thinking how haphazard my gardens are, and now that they are so out of control I find myself on the verge of just mowing everything under.

Not that I will, but it just seems that I lost control this year. Being gone for two weeks so close together, and with the heat and humidity...... has left me overwhelmed.

maybe I should just do that very thing, mow it all down.

Don't think so!
Was thinking it might be easier to paint a picture of a beautiful garden.
But then, if it was painted by a gardener-artist, weeds might appear over time, by analogy with The Picture of Dorian Gray. Only joking!

Ha!!

Hi Sharon,
Just back from barbecue at Carol's brother's in Georgetown, On.
Went to/put on four social functions in last five days; several to do with end of term and beginning of school holiday. Still friendly with people taught with.
Feel their joy and pain! Exhiliration of first day of holiday, then two weeks to wind down and realize one is actually on holiday, then a month of relaxation and finally two weeks with back-to-school hanging over one's head. Wish everybody could be retired. Talked to folk who will be retiring in 2030!
Was gardening in the rain this morning; staking and weeding. Was quite wet and pleasant. Hope your temperatures are better.
Need to get a lot more gardening done.
Back tomorrow.
Charlie.

Well of course I do have some more DL photos.

Retiring in 2030..wow, i can't even imagine!

And another...

And more of course

And another..

And I have other things too, but it was getting dark, so only took a few shots.
Crocosmia..which is not really supposed to grow this far north

And garden phlox, of course

And of course, my roses that never seem to give up....

Nite Charlie, have a good day tomorrow...

Hi Sharon,
Love your pictures. See lots of buds too.
None of daylilies, crocosmia or phlox are blooming here yet.
As per previous picture, do have roses blooming.
Going to be particularly interested in how the daylilies are going to do.
Bought Bela Lugosi three years ago - actually has buds on it for the first time this year.
Won't have van back till tomorrow, so following are from our garden today.
Charlie
Penstemon digitalis 'Husker's Red'.
Really like penstemons (beard tongues), but don't think they tend to like our alkaline soil. This and a few other penstemons do do well here and are long lived. Got a taller and pinkish flowered P. digitalis, this year, called 'Dark Towers'.

More cheddar pink cultivars.
Finding these very useful for sunny dryish spots.

An Astrantia major cultivar. A very hardy, reliable, semi-shade species.
Arend's (fall) monkshood behind.

Never know whether to use maltese cross. Not incredibly showy, but always described as an old English cottage garden plant.

Planted this spring: Big Sky Series (Sundown).
Have about a dozen of the new Echinacea hybrids, still only in bud (some). Got almost all last year and going to be interesting to see if the Monarch butterfies use them. Know the migrating Monarchs love the older E. purpurea cultivars, like 'Magnus' and will never replace those.

This Brantwood turned out to be a white sport (mutation)(I assume).
Not that big on white flowers, but a scattering is nice.