Comments on: July In The Garden - Photo Tour

By: Shady Gardener

Shady Gardener — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:49:04 +0000

Cathy, Thanks for the tour! I hope you get to enjoy your gardens more than I, these days. We can get “busy,” can’t we? Beautiful flowers, and yes, your rock garden has filled in wonderfully.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:02:34 +0000

MMD,

Thanks for coming along - watch your step while exiting. It is cool under those trees - sometimes a good 10 - 15 degrees cooler than the backyard of my neighbor’s house across the street. Too cool some days - I like the heat. The leaf miners aren’t typically so polite, there are usually so many trails through the leaves they look white instead of green!

Cathy

By: Mr. McGregor's Daughter

Mr. McGregor's Daughter — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:05:48 +0000

Thanks for the tour, it looks so cool under the trees. Seeing your photo of the Allium caeruleum reminds me that I used to grow them. I wonder what happened to them. They’re such a great shade of blue. How polite of your leaf miners to wait until the Columbines were almost done. Mine have no such manners.

By: Carol, May Dreams Gardens

Carol, May Dreams Gardens — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:29:52 +0000

Thanks for joining in for bloom day. I’ve got hostas blooming now, too, and usually have different ones blooming all through summer, and those look like Shasta daisies to me!

By: Cathy

Cathy — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:09:48 +0000

Thank you all for taking the tour!

ICQB,

Spiderworts are one of my fav’s too - probably because they bloom for so long. I was snooping around your blog - your spiderworts are lovely as well. The yard is only peaceful when my son isn’t in it chasing birds, helping to water plants(and me) or doing construction in the sandbox.

Cindy,

Don’t tell anyone but I took that picture right after mowing and trimming! It always looks better then (unless my arms give out and I lose control of the string trimmer). Usually I’m happy with calming greens and whites in the garden, but lately I’ve craved bright, hot colors. That daisy is a welcome jolt every time I look at it.

Greg,

Two of the supposed three Shasta Daisies look like the one pictured. The third is more compact and the stems that carry the blooms don’t reach out nearly as far. They were all planted last summer in the same area, so their growing conditions are the same. Just one of those things that makes you go Hmmmmm. I still like it in spite of its differences. Glad you enjoyed the spiderworts!

By: greg

greg — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:21:07 +0000

Thanks for the lovely tour!

Are the other Shastas shorter or taller, or in a different type of sunlight? I find they vary in their habit depending on location, but there are also tons of varieties of them, too.

I miss my spiderworts…none of them made the move with me last fall, as none were easy to spot and dig up when it was time to go. : ( Glad to enjoy yours, though.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:25:59 +0000

Your gardens are so well manicured. It all looks so nice. I had never seen white spiderswort before. That’s nice. But your gerber daisy is a show-stopper!

By: ICQB

ICQB — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:58:58 +0000

Hi! You have a lovely garden. Your purple spiderwort is such a vibrant purple! They’re one of my favorites.

Your yard looks like a really peaceful place. Mine is on the wild side, but I’m slowly starting to tame it. It’ll take a while.

Happy bloom day!