New Pictures - A Week Late

Here are two pictures of some Agastache Rupestins. I started them from seed a couple of years ago and they are going strong but look kind of weedy. I saw a hummingbird check this one out a few weeks ago. Now I am going to look for other agastache colors.




Here are the three foot tall zinnias (with some daisies and marigolds).



Here is a remaining patch of sedum (lost several to the winter) and this bunch is in bloom and is complete with bumblebees.


Another thing in bloom at the moment are my chive pots.


Here are my 7 foot tall cosmos tied to the inside of my veggie fence. Most haven't bloomed yet much to my disappointment.


Here are my 7 foot tall tomato plants.


Along the same fence I planted some Tithonia and it full bloom now. It came out bushier than I thought it would.

Notes for September 8, 2008

The opportunity presented it self and so I cut the grass (or lowered the crab grass) yesterday in the late afternoon. As I was pushing the mower I noticed some more storm damage to the garden. Several of my cosmos and nearly all of my peppers had fallen over so after I finished with the mower I tied them up. I had placed stakes with the peppers when I planted them and I tied the cosmos to the fence. I also lost a sunflower which now makes two broken over and leaving about ten still standing.

Tonight I plan on pulling the remaining wax beans and maybe plant radish or spinach or both.

My Sedum is in bloom and they look great.

Notes for August 13, 2008

Here is a picture of some the Sedum I have. It seems to done very well in my yard with very little care.

Last night I picked a bag of cucumbers (although they are slowing down now), a bag of cherry tomatoes and a bag of regular tomatoes. I also noticed that one of the cosmos has a small bloom on it, a white one.

Notes for June 17, 2008

Here is a picture of the corner of the first flower garden I started. The Tiger Lilly and the Iris are well established. The two Sedums to the left I planted last year and the one to the right I planted this year. They are doing so well, I bought more this year and now have a total of six in the yard. The little Hosta in the middle was a transplant from a friend of mine. They gave it to me because the deer in their neighborhood were not letting the Hosta grow.

Thunderstorms passed all around yesterday afternoon and evening but Moses was still at work. We didn't get any rain and all the storms passed either to our north or south.

Notes for May 14, 2008

Again it was 38 degrees F this morning and was awakened to crop dusters spraying for gypsy moths (5:30 AM). My car is covered in white specks. I am complaining about it being cold in the morning and yet my northern friend I think is still waiting for snow to melt?

There is a woman from church of retirement age who has a perennial flower business. The Iris are starting to bloom and so I stopped by her place. I bought a bunch (about 18 stalks) of Iris, two Sedums (large variety), two hardy Geraniums and a red (more like fuscia) Spiderwort. I plan on planting them tonight.

It was a nice sunny day yesterday and its supposed to be today and even warmer (low 70s). Hopefully it will be enough to get my green beans to germinate. I looked at them last night and it looks like they will today (anyone who has planted green beans will know that when they start to break out of their seeds the ground cracks and last night I saw that the ground had started to crack).