What have you done today in the Garden?

Didn't do anything apart from a walk around it.
We've several giant lilies, that seem to thrive on neglect.

















This hydrangea does well.







The two troughs with two hebes separated by a heather look good. In the spring the four hebes will change places with the four heathers in the troughs either side of the summerhouse steps. There's another hebe in the small bed behind.





There's another hebe in the bed behind this one, that's not doing well. It's quite old. I've another the same as the first one, further down the garden for which I'll swop it in the autumn.






I'm more than pleased with this Acer palmatum Taylor, it's doing well in its pot.
I'm letting it do its own thing at the moment, but I'll tidy it up in the late autumn, I'd rather it grow up than too wide on this small patio.

 

@Doghouse Riley - Those lilies are beautiful. I'm quite jealous. Mine are nice for one year, and then get smaller and disappear every year after. They're really lovely DHR.

 

Melody do you feed your lillies after flowering? I'm going to use a potash and a general fertilizer on mine this year. Also we get the lily Beatle that can be bad for them, they're red and i look for them and kill them.

 

I don't fertilize them specifically Logan. I always assumed they dissapeared from the cold weather and my growing zone. It may be worth trying again if you think the fertilizing would make a difference. They sure are a beautiful flower.

 

If they come up the second year it might be good to see if it's the feeding or it could be the soil or the lily Beatle.

 

Wow, that's really cool Melody!

I think it's a shame that so much lore about native plants has been lost. My mon's dad knew some but I was young when he died and it went with him.

Pineapple Weed. Very interesting. I will look for it.

The images of scentless chamomile look a lot like German chamomile. But I know I have German chamomile because it is scented.

 

Didn't do a lot. Too hot and not up to it. Watered. Gave some vegetable plants a dose of fertilizer.

These are the Red Wethersfield onions that I overwintered for saving seeds. I think the flowers are stately and lovely. And if there's a bee within smelling distance, it will find these flowers. Honeybees and tiny pollinating bees love them.



I completed anti-chicken, anti-duck fencing on the first of two beds for (mostly) bush beans. The streamers are there as anti-jay protection. That can be taken off when the bean plants are a little bigger.



Picked some flowers.



Rufus is perfectly happy indoors when it's that hot outside.



I also hand-pollinated the Blue Ballet squashes. It's a new variety for me. The Galeux squashes are just beginning to bloom, all male flowers so far.

 

@Daniel lots of production in your well maintained garden at your place. Lookin good and your floral arrangement is beautiful… lots of different flowers from you well attended garden,
I think we all need to get drone shots of our gardens. Wouldn’t that be neat… ? Just thinkin out loud… !

@Doghouse Riley your garden is as always gorgeous. Your energy and routine is enviable. Loving the lilies colors and what a smart spot to give them a light backdrop of the siding for the lilies. Beautiful fancy maple tri color . Can’t wait to see it this fall.
Has the memosa started to send out blooms yet?

 

It's been so windy that i had to take the fleece off the blueberries, it was acting as a sail and pulling the pots over.

 

Riley— Very nice plants you have there. I like it when you feature your plants.

Daniel— I like seeing onion and leek plants in bloom. As you say, many pollinators come to them…but you know what I like about the allium blooms— the ball of seed pods right after blooming. They have such an interesting tactile character. It is an amazing sensation.
Also, it is just amazing the lengths that you must go to to protect your veg, but must needs be, eh? Whatever it takes, after all, it is YOUR hobby, not the jays’ or any other beast.
I would be remiss if I did not mention you über-lovely garden flower bouquet. Your Bride must be over the moon with that, you ole romanticus, you.
Finally a foto of Master Rufus supervising the whole show.

Loggie— I thought about doing the same with the strong winds, but in the end, I decided to just strengthen the material. There are already merels, tjif-tjafs and blue tits trying to get in to eat. I caught a little tmif-tjat in there yesterday…the lil radcal.

 

Thanks for that.

"I had my work cut out today," finding time to do stuff with, golf, tennis and cricket on TV.

But I managed to find time to swop this,,,,,




For this in the ceramic pot by the front door. It will soon be in flower.





It's big enough to take any plant I have in a plastic pot. It had an azalea in it earlier in the year.

 

Oo, isn’t that a nice one. When the flowers get going, that ought to be a right eye-full. Is it a Wandering Jew?

 

Dunno, it's just a sort of, "wandering hebe."

 

My eyes are not what they once were. Ha ha.
Those purple flowers just didn’t make me think of a Hebe.
Well, it is still an attractive plant.

 

Melody, we have different climates so I don't know. If I grow lilies in the ground, they never come up a second year. If I grow them in containers, they do great. I don't do anything special with the containers plants, just shelter in a protected spot for the winter.

My guess is, the underground animals eat the bulbs. Happens with tulips too, but not with camassia, hyacinths, or hyacinthoides. Maybe voles?