Midsummer can slip past you before you know it. So it helps to have a camera to capture some of the garden flowers before they go by. I’ll confess that my gardening skills are modest, with some things succeeding admirably but others sinking out of sight like the Titanic. The garden phlox is coming but is still in bud. Ground phlox has come and gone but put on a nice show. For some reason I forgot to take pictures so will have to wait until next year.
Echinacea does well. I have two types, a medium pink shade and a second which is much paler. The medium pink is in full bloom while the light pink (which is in a more shady spot) is still in the bud stage.
The patch of daylilies beside the foundation put on a decent performance but the plants really need to be thinned out. The trick will be to find a spot to plant them, most likely along the bank in front of my home.
I have several different beebalms.
The red variety seems eager to escape the garden for some reason. This one is sited in a weedy spot; several others insist the front lawn is the place to be. I mow around them, as I want to dig them up later on and place them back in the garden.
There’s also a lemon-scented beebalm, which is a delicate lavender color, though to be honest, I cannot detect any lemon scent from the leaves. The bees find the blossoms very attractive so that compensates for any lack of scent.
Potted plants are doing well. A mix of petunias as well as a colorful geranium bring a nice splash of flowers.
Here’s another pot of petunias. The black-eyed Susans are in the foreground rather than the pots.
Here are some purple bee-balms (similar to the red) which are behaving themselves by staying in the garden where they belong. If you look carefully, there is a bumblebee on the second blossom from the left.
There’s still all of August to go, so stayed tuned. Be well, all.