I live in WNC we are having the rains and flooding you had in the spring. My garden is very sad. The plants are fighting mildew. My may not see the sun until this weekend.
During the summer my garden was lovely.
I am in central Missouri and I have what is probably the best garden that I have had in years.First planting of beans were very good,got as many as 5-5quart pails from 4 rows 50 ft long but they have been pulled and replanted and those are not going to make it as we are having low 50 at night and low to mid 70's days.Have had tomatoes zuchinni(sp)watermelon and cantaloupe,black-eyed peas and okra all along.My popping sorgo looks nice,stalks are probably 1 1/2 inches in diameterand lots of sunflowers.My sweet-potatoes are looking good,very rank but so far have not found any sweet-potatoes.and I didn't know they bloomed but mine have a morning glory type flower.All together a good garden year.Rollie
Rollie--is popping sorgo the same as the grain sorghum? Congrats on you good growing year.
posted by Idamay
over 2 years ago
Cleomes are still going strong here in the Boston area. Sunflowers just about done. My impatiens are limping along but I just can't seem to stop watering them and let them go.
Last week in a panic I brought in all my houseplants, about 20 of them, because I was afraid frost would creep up on me.. I was wearing gloves in the mornings for cryin' out loud. Past few days have been 70's and humid ! Go figure!! That's New England for ya.
posted by imjac
over 2 years ago
My landscape is designed for four seasons, but fall is my favorite so I've made a special effort to have it look nice then. We have magenta and purple asters blooming as well as hardy ageratum (sky blue blossoms), pink turtlehead, Japanese anemone and a rebloom on the cranesbill. The containers, though holey about the leaves, are surviving, with annual salvia and red cockscomb looking good. Grasses have lovely seeds on them. The rain garden is full of New England aster, blue lobelia, sneezeweed and goldenrod. Burning bushes, maples and ashes are getting a hint of fall color. Seven big pumpkins on our only vine have just about turned completely orange. We bought some mums at Home Depot, and soon it will be time to buy broom corn for the porch posts. Fall is so beautiful in Chicago.
Reading these is like reading poetry. And reading about gardening is what we northerners will be reduced to in a month or so. Do we have any southerners around to tell us about your gardens? [kester--what's a rain garden?]
posted by Idamay
over 2 years ago
Idamay - A rain garden is a garden placed in a low spot where rain runs off or gathers (soggy ground, perhaps). It contains plants that like wet feet. In Illinois, most people make their rain gardens of native wetland plants. The garden's purpose is to absorb the excess water and keep the runoff from going into streams, etc. It helps capture and keep the water where it fell, preventing flooding and benefiting the local aquifer. It also filters out pollutants such as fertilizer. (Our home is on a private well, so all this is good for us as well as the environment in general.) I'm going to try to post a picture of my rain garden from June of this year, before any summer plants had bloomed.
I just added pictures of my rain garden to the group album. Can anyone tell me how to put them into the body of a message or reply? Thanks.
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OK--the link worked but it was the wrong picture. Here goes try #2.
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posted by Idamay
over 2 years ago
