The Echinacea garden is coming along. It’s been a long process. The area is at the very back of my yard and was totally covered with honeysuckle trees that I cut down during the summer. Slowly, I’ve been filling it in with new plants. Even though they are written down somewhere, I can’t tell you the names of all these varieties. But in the end, … Continue reading echinacea garden
As the garden winds down, every week I think this will be my last bouquet. We haven’t had a frost yet, and the trees are still unseasonably green, but the temps have turned noticeably colder, which seems to have intensified the color in these flowers. In truth, this bouquet looks more like spring than fall. The roses look lovelier now than in the heat of … Continue reading this week’s bouquet
This week’s bouquet is made from a few cuttings of this and that. It started when I was dead heading and cutting back these zinnias that were laying on the ground. Next, I added a few coleus growing from a pot on the deck . . . . . . and a few lantana. An afterthought addition was a few pokeweed branches with their purple … Continue reading this week’s bouquet
I did some dead heading in the zinnia garden last evening. It is hard to watch the precious blooms losing color and going to seed. They are looking tired and worn, falling over from wind and rain. The leaves have lost some color, looking very faded, and covered with a powdery mildew. Although smaller, they are still loaded with new buds, and dead heading will … Continue reading holding tight to summer
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