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For all my garden loving follower here is the Late Summer Garden 2016 for you .
We endured a hot spell last couple of weeks of the upper 90 ’s in temp here on the mountain . That is not unusual for this clock time of year . The valley was in the 100 + range . We do typically get just a couple week of really live temp and then it cools back down to normal . Though the low 90 ’s is even rather on the hot side here which is what it rise too in the mid afternoon , I am loving it all . I get laid the heat .
summertime is my favorite time of year and I have been outside as much as I can be . You may have noticed I have been missing on Facebook and other Social Media and that is why . Well , one of the reasons.(this post check affiliate liaison , please see revelation page for more info )
Late summertime flowers are putting on their show . ( why people call it belated summer when in reality it is mid - summertime baffles me).The Cosmosare nearly as tall as I am .
A colourful variety ofmorning gloriesare threaten to deluge the sweet peas but I chop them back fiercely to keep them in check .
Thesweet peasare stay on to aromatise the garden , I seek to pick them regularly to forestall them move to seed too soon but some have gotten away from me . I am replanting to get even more blooms as summer slice into Fall and what does not bloom this class will have a top dog lead off next Spring . I also bought some semen in bright colouring to tot to my appeal .
Black Knight Buddleja(aka : Butterfly Bush ) is in full swing . I already demand to dead channelise it to keep the blooms coming . ( for more on deadheading for uninterrupted flush , click HERE )
My rose are get it on this heat . This Tess D’Ubervilles come up is at the back corner of mystudio bungalow . I apply lush hosepipe to rich urine and ponderous mulch to help retain moisture in the footing .
My Kiss of Desire climber has film up higher than my 5 foot fence . Can you see my lilliputian peaches on the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree behind . I am hoping to beat the bears to them once they ripen up but the bear have already been around bust some of the apple tree and the apples are not even good yet ! I do n’t have a go at it how successful I will be but I am so happy I got another great crop of peaches on my tree . Last year was not bad too .
Despite a bad sheath of rust many of myHollyhocksare bloom so pretty . Many I whack off to the ground in Spring when I saw how infected they were , they are blossom but are just brusque . This is one that is not too badly marred by the fungus . Unless I use a awful sure-enough systemic pesticide / antimycotic agent I will not be able to eradicate it so I just make do and delight what hollyhocks I do get . ( systemics harm the bees and other pollinators so I am not willing to apply them just to have prettier flower , I take the blossom sweetheart as it comes , gnarly fungus and all )
raise along the lattice along the back underside of our deck of cards is two climbers that have miniature blossom but are fragrant and finely beautiful . This one is call Sixteen Candles . It flower in a spray of blossoms , many multiplication 16 to a cane .
One of my Oriental lily , one of theStargazers , had to be rescued , it was smothered by Larkspur . The larkspur was near done so I yank out all that was fence this lily , there are at least 4 more buds on this little gallon . Such a sweet-flavored perfume . I require to remember to not let the Larkspur infest this spot next Spring . I also have about 4 more of this lily in a pot on my deck and I will graft them here so I will have a nice patch in one touch . I wish thing planted in masses for a more striking display .
Thissweet niggling hydrangeais in a heap and I have moved it around the garden try out to find the complete spot for it so it can thrive , I suppose I have found it and this twilight it will go into the earth and be given lots of TLC so it can get big and bloom its little heart out . This has had bloom on it for a month now so I know it is in the perfect space .
Grosso Lavenderhas been bloom forth as well , it leans over the board footpath and emits its scrumptious scent each time I brush against it . I need to trim it back and go for for more blossom but whenever I remember it is so covered with bees that I put it off , then quickly block again . TheEchinaceasare at their eyeshade , this is White Swan and the top photo in this berth is the honest-to-god miscellany , just regular older Cone Flower . I havePowWow Wildberrytoo but it has not blossom well this year , the cone cell has formed but few petals . I need to research that and see why . For more info on growing Echinaceas CLICK HERE . There is a smashing photo of what my PowWow should appear like in that Wiley Post .
Here is what deadheading will get you , thisCanterbury Bellshad bloomed profusely and was starting to set seed and I whacked it off and now odoriferous reward , another set of beautiful purple blossom , I have a pinkish one too but I can not happen the white , in fact I do n’t remember the white one bloom earlier either this season . It could ’ve been a dupe of my fanatical clean and jerk up of this flower bed in early Spring .
Black Eyed Susans ( rudbeckias)are in full bloom , the brilliant golden yellow with some orangish and incinerate reds are so vivacious . I have been cutting some for bouquets . They are such a happy flower !
There is more blooming but I must run . I shall portion out more on my Facebook and Instagram course .
Happy horticulture !
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