February 28 2021
Some critter was more anxious than I was to start a garden this year. There was soil scattered everywhere below from my pots. The worst near my lower door- track that stuff in and it is forever in your boots.
Wish I could plant more edibles but the season is too short- basically last year I did not get to plant anything until June 1st. so. Wildflowers again and maybe some violets and a carefree petunia.
March 30
Tree out front keeps looking like it will not bloom this year.
bulbs peeping up
April 12
trying to keep the pots cultivated
bulbs up!
Jer gave me some purple pansies to plant!
Jer's box of pansies at his office
grape hyacinths coming up in the lawn out front!
April 14
April 14- evening sun on dafs
May 1
Mom's bulbs at Seaside
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May 2
along the roadside. Makes all of us happy!
May 6
here
season for bulbs was short this year.
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May 6
one lonely daffodil near bike trail
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May 24
well I think the garden is all set for the season- just have to water and fertilize once a month and enjoy
outside my door below
Verbena-NEW
Volunteer honeysuckle bush where I planted a peach seed 7 years ago LOL
volunteer spearmint the stuff grows everywhere but where I have planted it
The verbena that has bloomed -NEW
carefree petunia-pink-NEW
red geranium trying hard!- NEW
yellow marguerites-NEW and the new sneakers I bought in 2019 and this is the 2nd time wearing them LOL hoping the daisies are perennials
lobelia-NEW
rosemary-NEW
cosmos in the back long pot-NEW
an extra cosmos- NEW
ginger mint julip- NEW. this and the rosemary came in a pot that you plant! wish all of them came that way.
rose of Sharon
pink honey suckle- thought it was a goner this year- same with the double hydrangeas and the tree out front. they were just a bit slower this year.
put two cosmos in with the pansies - NEW
columbine- always amazed this returns.
purple carefree petunia- NEW
and of sentimental value the mini strawberry plant Mom had back in 1996
When she was a child up to her teens her father always brought something home "strawberry". When she was a teenager he brought home 6 yards of material with strawberries all over it. Saying to her "stay home , and stay away from those nasty boys" LOL She married at 19.
chipmunks have first dibs on the sparse fruit.
The espaliered hydrangea
oak leaf hydrangea- it attracts tiny green bees- fascinating to watch.
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May 9
Harwich Center bulb display
May 10
Brother's customer's roses below for me to enjoy too
bulbs out front
Canadian Mayflower getting ready to bloom
May 17
more of those customer roses before they leave and are planted
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and of May beginning of June
Canadian Mayflower
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June
Daisies, columbine , carefree petunias
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June 5
daisies make a full appearance out front.
red geranium
yellow marguerites
daisies below
verbena
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June 5
glad I got these pictures of the Canadian Mayflower- when the men did the cleanup I think they mowed most of it.
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June 8
the shadows of the daisies blowing in the wind.
June 7
June 11
I rearranged things today but no pix of that. Last night I got some pix of the purple petunia with the late day sun bleeding out the color and the pink honey suckle.
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June 11
garden rearranged
crooked pansies ought to bother some people LOL
verbena moved to chairs
love the aroma of the ginger mint julep
The hydrangea are slow this year- we will see.
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June 14
water bowl for birds empty again- something is drinking from it I am sure.
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June 19
Garden so far and the volunteers to the right have bloomed.
and at Seaside the plant at Mom's grave suffered from drought twice. I only go there once a week.
watered it thoroughly and returned Sunday and watered again. it had revived.
also same day the first cosmos opened!
June 23
wind blown bees and bell flowers
June 29
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July 4
Mom's impatiens survived another drought! We got rain that revived.
Garden in setting sun light
July 5
I was rotating the pots that I could easily lift- and placing them on the seats of the chairs around the glass top table below. It became too hot and too dry so I stopped that. Also the garden is really struggling with this hot-cold day syndrome.
But when out rotating laundry saw a cool looking green beetle and took pix. Came inside and looked it up- oops a stink bug. So I sprayed it with wintergreen alcohol and it eventually died feet up on it's back but it took awhile.
July 7
while I stepped in dog shit I was taking flower pix
cosmos and pansies
August 1
sure is a struggle. That'll teach me to not buy so many plants. just stick with 2 maybe 3 big pots. cosmos opening
oak leaf hydrangea
some more cosmos
and my favorite the ginger mint julep has been taken over by the spearmint that grows wild. It was alone in a pot doing well. I grouped all my pots together during a hot spell for easier watering. When I separated them later and placed this near my door below I thought it looked extra lush. Upon close look it was ALL spearmint. I will try to see if the Ginger Mint Julep is in there somewhere! It smells great nonetheless.
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August 3
I always marvel at the above Queen Anne's Lace and the multiple tiny flowers that are perfection.
took 20 shots to get that almost clear moth LOL
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August 6
Rose of Sharon in bloom! and a Queen Anne's lace highlighted by yellow daisies
August 9
garden from above
rose of Sharon from above
we had a heat wave and I mean humidity and horribly hot in the 90s here for a stretch. The oak leaf hydrangeas usually turn pink about now and browner later. This year they burnt like a crisp. Pink just briefly.
but the white cosmos seemed to love it and flourish!
August 26
looks like cosmos love heat. and the verbena are looking better
August 28
peppermints and verbena
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August 31
rearranging pots to make room for a glass top table- which ended up in the semi circle after all ha ha
particularly straggly since they have gotten so tall.
hosta still surviving barely, while hidden.
of today September 9 we have had heavy rains. Will be interesting to see what survives intact.
September 1
verbena out front I have moved the red pink white one back here.
September 10 & 11
September 12
picked some mint for drying
not sure what this is- all of a sudden it blossomed in the wilds outside the windows of the sun room. I looks like a honey suckle variety.
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September 27
fungi
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October 7
after a long few days of rain and the frustration of "no stove" I worked in the garden cleaning up- little by little. cleared out verbena and petunias. moved mint and added soil to hydrangea bed.
Jer's which they planted somewhere this morning
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geranium still has color but ready to be pulled up. The pansies cannot be discouraged
rosemary keeps getting blown over but hope it survives the Winter.The Ginger Mint Julep looks mighty sad and curled up. Hope that makes it through the Winter- it is supposed to be a perennial.
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December 7
The geraniums struggling. We will see what they do with the warm weather headed this way next week.
December 29
purple pansy still!
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