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Since the growing season began, my native asters and sunflowers have grown to shoulder height and the sparse plantings I was fretting about are now so packed in that I'm cutting out hunks of greenery just to get some airflow. Every time I walk into the yard I want to hug myself with joy over how green and alive everything looks. Better Home and Gardens won't be doing any full-page spreads of my mishmash of plants and my lawn full of dandelions and strawberry plants, but the garden represents over 15 years of toil (and expenditure) and I love it all. Except for the earwigs.
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Carpathian harebell, Campanula carpatia 'Pearl Deep Blue'
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Purple bee balm, Monarda didyma 'Violet Queen'
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A volunteer pumpkin. Thanks, squirrels.
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Hemerocallis NOID, blooming for the first time in years because I finally moved it into a sunnier spot
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Clematis 'Jackmanii' again, because I can.
5 comments:
The rain has done amazing things for gardens (and slugs!) this year.
I LOVE your monarda and echinacea combination Diane - beautiful!
I was amazed the other day at the amount of biomass many of my plants had put on in seemingly a few days. (Although I expressed it more in these words "Hoohee! Everything's gotten so big!") My native asters are HUGE and taller than me. I gotta go cut them back.
Every summer I think, what if kids grew that fast? Scary!
Your beebalm looks amazing!
Looks great. I've never heard of a volunteer pumpkin!
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