It's bright, sunny, and pleasant now, so I wandered around the garden for a while with my camera.
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| Lacey textures in the front garden: Pennisetum "Hameln", Ammi visnaga "Green Mist" and spent Allium "Summer Beauty" (which would, maybe, have held-up better if I hadn't transplanted it in mid-summer) |
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| Dried stems of Salvia lyrata "Purple Volcano" in the carport bed with coloring Geum in the background (I transplanted the Geum during mid-summer, too--anybody see a pattern developing?) |
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| Assortment of ground covers in the carport bed--Ajuga "Mahogany", Ajuga genevensis, and hardy Geranium "Jolly Bee" with Hakonechloa behind. Next year, I am prepared for this Geranium to go on a rampage and consume the entire planting bed--this is an aggressive one! |
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| The wider view of the carport bed with Allium "Summer Beauty" visible in the background |
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| Driveway bed with a variety of plants coming up through a matrix planting of Nassella tenuissima: Geranium macrorrhizum, dwarf leucanthemums, Calico Aster, white Guara, bearded iris, and annual salvia. I'm trying to treat the Nassella right so it will thicken up and (finally) look good next year. |
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| 'Round back in the Arbor bed--Darmera peltata, Hakonechloa, and Astilbe. |
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| Declining Darmera (ravaged by snails--what's up with that? I never used to have a problem with snails!) with self-seeded fern, moss, and sedums |
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| Spidery! Really spidery! |
12 comments:
Great shot of the spider web! My Darmera is very sad-looking right now too. Your nasella looks much better than mine, which basically just looks like some rat's nest of tangled hair. These few days of sun after the rain are very nice.
Thanks, Alison! I trimmed the Nasella tall (as you'd mentioned) but also as if I were giving it a very spiky/texture-y haircut. And every time I have a few minutes, I go out and pull out a few of the thick, dead stems...one at a time...
The spider web picture is great - it seems to be the height of spider season everywhere. I may have to try G. 'Jolly Bee,' although none of the true geraniums I've tried here has performed with the vigor that they demonstrated in my former garden. I envy you the rain! Northern California got a little but we've had squat.
Hi Kris! Thanks! I think they decided that "Jolly Bee" was genetically identical to "Rozanne" (although I think they are also supposedly naturally occurring or open pollinated, so how that worked out, I'm not sure) but they are NOT the same--in my opinion, at least. So I keep calling it Jolly Bee. Jolly Bee seems more vigorous than Rozanne and also more upright.
So, yeah...fall? 100 degrees and extra watering for the new plantings, and no relief for the near future...
I really like how you are using the Nasella as a matrix, and I share your enthusiasm for hardy geranium, aggressive or not. You're garden looks mellow yet colorful.
Hi Jason! Thanks! I just really want the Nassella to work out and be as I see it in my mind's eye...
The remains of the Astilbe are striking. I like them much better than the fluffy pinkness of their flowering time.
Hi Rickii! I, too, like the astilbes at this stage.
Lovely photos, Emily. The sunlight on your plants is so pretty. It's interesting that you got all that rain when here we got just a sprinkle last night. That spider web is so spidery. :)
Thanks, Grace! There's been some sneaky rain--you know, when you go out in the morning and it is conspicuously wet...and we had a pretty big downpour today.
Great pictures of 'Hameln' and the spider web. Our fall has also been unusually wet. The whole year has been, actually.
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