still too dark,mmm camera???I always get great shots with it???
cottage garden or too haphazard?
Hugger, I really like all your birdhouses and I have "a few" but I always get Nasties building their wasp nests etc. I'm not sure what I'm doing to do about that.
I have a mouse nest in one...LOL...yes I get wasp nests in some of them,most of my bird houses that sit in my landscape are just decorations,i have 5-6 that i hang on trees for Carolina wrens,I put them out in the woods and such
Hugger & Museum, got any new pics? I enjoyed your pictures so much.
cottage garden run a muck
i love the full look
potting chairs,and the back of the toilet planter that faces the road
Had to "tidy" the garden a bit, the fairy roses just will NOT bloom for me, so they had to go. It is a little spare right now, but still okay. The roses are kind of taking a break right now.
I liked this picture, too.
Huggergirl, your pictures are beautiful!
oh your landscaping is beautiful,sometimes I wish I had a little less...But it is getting easier the more that it fills in ..I did wsing 1st time last winter ,OMG Im hooked growing my own with no hassels...LOVE IT
photo of winter sowed in milk jugs and what I started under lights
WHAT is that gorgeous deep blue flower?
Larkspur, I have it every where,it just pops up,well after I help scatter seed.
i keep trying to get a few other colors going ,but seems to me the deep purple is very hardy... it is a nice vivid deep purple ,as you can tell Im the Haphazard gardner,If a seed sprouts in the middle of the sidewalk ,I wont pull it...Soo where ever the seed falls thats where it will grow,i used to keep everything all neat an tidy...so glad I dont anymore,ive opened my eyes to eclectic cottage rock garden....LOL...Daves also helped me,to realize it does not have to be all perfectly placed to be pretty. a photo from earlier in the spring ...boring...LOL
Help Hugger, I truly LOVE your garden. I'll have to look for some of that seed because the color is soooo deep and BOLD.
Love that pathway through the garden area, so beautiful! I could spend all day there...
And, that larkspur is beautiful, amazing!!! I have a few delphinium here and there, but seeing them blooming enmasse, well, that's something to envy!!! Maybe my few little babies will drop seed and spread for next year?
Tamara -- your flower beds are gorgeous.
museumgirl - have you ever 'fed' your roses bananas?? literally bury the peal, or whole banana near the shrub....
i have done just the peels -- works wonders.
Museumgirl, your home looks so loved from your flowers to your seat by the front door!
Hugger, your flowers by the garage are very pretty and that bank is very nice. Remember, wherever you have flowers you do not have to mow!
No mowing... AMEN! My last house I had managed to get ALL the grass out and just have flowers and paths. THIS house has an abundance of grass and I sure wish it didn't. Maybe next year we can take out the front yard. I want a semi-circle drive with a 1/2 circle flowerbed within the that curve. THAT would be a LOT easier to maintain that this.
Terese
what do the bananas do to the roses? I assume it is a fertilizer of sorts.
Thank you everyone,I just love the Blooms of summer,makes my heart sooo happy.
rudbeckia rustic colors ??,I love the multi petals
Huggergirl, I love that full look too.Your yard is beautiful!
Dee
Yes, what do the bananas do? Do they kill Japanese Beetles, because that would be great!
thank you everyone
bananas provide potasium id bet...dosent kill JBs,that would be too easy...LOL
psych,actually Larkspur is in the Delphinium family,buy seed now and start sowing it next month and you will have babies that willl winter over,and you will have a bumper crop,i did winter sow several milk jugs too,thats easy also then you have big hunks of seedlings to trans plant.
can I just use 1 gall. nursery flower pots for winter sowing, since I do not use 1 gall. milk jugs, I love Larkspure, In my home country we had them on the side of the road. Thanks.
Etelka
this is my picture of Angelonia and Agastache
Thanks Hugger, I'll do that!
Wow, they're beautiful plants in large drifts like that! I will need to start more for next year! I have hollyhocks for the first time ever, this year. Boy, did they get big!
You can't get a flower that says "cottage garden" more than a single pink hollyhock.
A dear friend brought me seeds from Vermont.To my surprise, even my superior "killing" skills couldn't stop those hollyhocks! I l just love them. My grandmother always grew a big patch of them behind her house in Tennessee. They make me feel nostalgic!
4-O'Clocks are supposed to be poisonous to JB's. I have them in a different bed, opposite my rose bed.
http://www.ehow.com/how_4597259_feed-roses-banana-peels.html
tcs,do jbs munch on the 4oclocks ??
museumgirl,i have black HH and double red ,the red I have are kinda short,but they are shaded a bit by the sunflowers...ck out other colors,some might be different heights ???
im,finally getting drifts of plants growing,and i too love that look,I always cleaned up my gardens too much,not anymore,let it go too seed,well I collect the seed heads and then sow seed where I want it .and Im careful of invasives.
I put in a few seeds for the black hollyhocks this year, but haven't noticed if they are up yet-it is kind of crowded in there! But I think the holllyhocks will die back after their second year and re-seed? don't know, I've never grown them before...
Your HH seeds will fall and start seedlings this year. These seedlings will bloom next year. I scattered wallflower seeds this week so that I'll have some a different garden next year.
Tamara -- the JB's are supposed to be drawn to the 4'O'Cs and then kills them.
we have the JB's really bad in Wisc... i need to grow the 4-O'Cs next year for sure.
None of my HH's are impressive this year. must be the drought.
been smashing a few JBs ,powdered the HH and Malvas,,grrr...holy moly its too hott...dang...
ive got an area thats wayyy over crowded....OH Darn...LOL.. although Im seeing that the sunflowers are shading the tomato plants ....and few others
tcs ,my HH are getting ate up and are just starting to come on,Id bet they wont bloom this year,have 1 black and 1 red that bloomed,yes not impressive.. I dont have much color this year coming down the walk and steps ,lots of green ,its sooo shady,then afternoon sun =( but the petunias on the west side are loving this heat. I need to find more shade loving bloomers.
wow -- that's a lot of color!!
another hollyhock picture from last week. They are almost to the end for now, but still so pretty. Do I cut them back when they are done blooming?
Museumgirl - your HH are gorgeous. Great color. Could I possibly get some seed from you? Please send me a Dmail.