Outside the door below
3 impatiens and the solar light that never seems to be lit. :) at night even.
large pot at base of stairs with Zinnia seeds planted
Canadian Mayflower
Pink honeysuckle struggling this year- I may have to grab some fertilizer from my brother.
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June 4 2020
columbine
June 23 2020
climbing hydrangea and oak leaf hydrangea are with blossoms and greening nicely.
baby bunny rabbit.
June 27 2020
Daisies are fading but I noticed a clump of them in the dividing strip here looking fresh. Update on the rest of the garden June 28 2020
June 29 2020
okay I know I am kidding myself to think this will work but I transplanted my zinnia seedlings into the bunny food dish (long flower box on the ground). And I fortified it with tomato stakes LOL
Planted the lobelia I got on Sunday into the pot where the zinnia seedlings were flourishing .
Like they say if animals are not eating your garden you are not doing it right.
small price to pay
some macro pix of the garden from June 29 2020
July 3rd garden
coreopsis are up! Always a surprise
and hydrangeas are in full bloom and the bees are back.
The oak leaf hydrangeas are turning rosy pink!
July 24 2020
July 30 2020 progress
August 8 2020
August 21 2020
Zinnias thriving LOL behind squirrel and rabbit baffles
August 21 2020
zinnia & friend
more zinnias August 23 2020
season seems to be drawing to a near.
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I wonder if I will listen to myself if I make a note: no more seeds, no more impatiens.
The garden is waning down. Heat wave that lasted over a month. Then 2 inches of rain , heat and more rain. I will slowly start cutting back and pulling up.
September 5 2020
my zinnias pretty but behind sticks so they do not get eaten.
The garden in a nutshell
the zinnias and the planter Jer placed at Mom's at Seaside that fried.
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Impatiens struggled just about anywhere I put them. Lobelia was fine until the storm. Even the carefree petunias were not as robust as last year. The volunteer mixed mint still there and the honeysuckle. But the pink honeysuckle looks like it is bare and being strangled by something. Hydrangea at least bloomed this year. The box of impatiens between them did pretty well. I must mention that I do not fertilize. The soil is enriched when I plant the flowers and that is it. The mecardonia plant did well may try that and lobelia again.
September 9 2020
Everything is definitely fading in the garden. Cleaned up milk crates for storage in the stairway. Noticed some volunteers thriving where there were impatiens just a few days before LOL and not oxalis. And found some new to me white quartz stones. Felt good to have soil on my hands. Very cool.
and then some more color appears like magic
zinnias and cosmos were late comers but worth it. No asters this year
September 19 2020
dried hydrangea heads with color
September 25 2020
Felt ambitious when I went down to feed the birds and ended up cleaning up and clipping back a bit.Not much left to do. Looks like the pink honey suckle has bit the dust. It will still be interesting twine!
Cut back the hydrangeas to the canes and cleaned out the pot of straggly impatiens.
not messing with the pots of volunteers yet- they sometimes pop forth with a surprise or two. Like a late aster.
No more carefree petunias. They were a beautiful purple this year. I think I will completely empty a few long flower boxes and use for height. The soil in all needs enriching.
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September 29 2020
Jer filled his planter out front with mums and a pumpkin- looks nice
dainty white flowers bloomed!
more later I did more cleanup and clipping back
October 9 2020
zinnias still making me happy
need a nap and need to update dropstitchditdit :)
November 15 2020 and the mecardonia is still thriving sort of.
Novemeber 21 still hangin in there
December 1 2020
getting ready to use the potting soil in this planter. Jer always empties it and I can use it. The pumpkin was moldy on the backside so that got tossed in the compost pile for the squirrels to enjoy. I hope.
after clipping back the mums and adding to the compost I started digging. Man it was tough at first but little by little I scooped it up by hand into the old Revere ware dutch oven I have below for such purposes. added the soil to the pots I have. Still more but I need the men to remove the plants first.
sun catcher and my table full of white quartz
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December 11 2020
Mecardonia finally got a hair cut there was still some life to it but a few frosts and winds storms will do it in for the year. Wondering if it will come back! dream on.
December 23 2020
progress of last big contribution to compost! Jer's pumpkin from out front
That's it for 2020 garden
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