Pics of my garden

[GreenPartyVoter]

More: http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/garden.htm

Unfortunately I missed getting pics of the earlier flowers. There is one that I have no clue what it is and haven't seen it listed in any of my plant books. Oh well, maybe there is a stray one out there I missed and I can get snaps of it later on this weekend.

[gardenista]

1. Well, some people say

that a garden is the reflection of the gardener's soul. If that is true, it shows you to be exhuberant, graceful, well-balanced, intriguing, lovely but not to be messed with (foxglove), and constantly re-inventing yourself (the obviously well-thought-out succession of bloom).

In short, you rule & so does your garden!

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Thanks! Actually there are some bare spots but careful camera

angles hide them well. But as a fan of cottage gardens I have no problem with buying yet another discount plant and plunking it down into the bare space. Unfortunately, my wallet DOES have a problem with it. *g*

[GOPisEvil]

2. My garden again.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. I love that fence. All I have to work with is trailer skirting and

vinyl latticework. *pout*

[GOPisEvil]

5. part of that fence is falling down

I need to repair it. I'll do that over the winter when the plants are dormant.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Dilapated stuff is part of the cottage garden charm, though. ;^D

[GOPisEvil]

9. Too bad I don't live in a cottage.

The people behind me have dogs and I'd rather keep them in their yard. :D

[Tsiyu]

20. I saw that earlier when you posted

and never got back to tell you how jealous I was;)

Now, I must go putter myself on my palatial estate. Hope all is well this morning and ....ahem....you never told me whether "Spoon" was any good...:shrug:

[GOPisEvil]

21. I did this morning.

I finally went to bed last night. :)

I have to give most of the credit to a friend of mine who did the landscaping here.

[realms]

42. First post=egg on my face

Sorry my first post went astray,
It was the end of a line and my thoughts got ahead of me.

[realms]

41. Newbe

Hi Friends,
  I've been here a DemocraticUnderground for 5+ years and just
can't listening to the truth. I'm with you all the way.

[Robeson]

7. Very pretty...

...love the colors. I've been working on mine. On the vegetable side, some of my first tomatoes are getting ready to get ripe. Yummy!

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. I had cherry tomatoes a few years ago. I ought to get some more

except that where I had them planted before is now home to a rosebush...

[Tsiyu]

10. How beautiful

Very stunning all the colors together.

My garden is coming along but dogs, chickens and hail ( yes, we had hail that threatened to trample everything) are trying to ruin it...

Is that foxglove and are those dephiniums in the rear? Those irises are gorgeous. Mine never bloomed this year :shrug: It is just a really nice planting you green thumber, you. :thumbsup:

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Thank you. I don't have delpiniums this year except for yellow ones

that have gone by (they look more peonyish than spiky). The purple behind the foxgloves are lupines. I am trying to gor a delphinium cousin, larkspur, but am not getting very far.

I am actually not a great gardener in that I never follow directions and do not care for my plants as I should. But I _have_, through trial and error, discovered which ones can deal with having me "take care" of them. *g*

I really hope you have luck with your flowers too, but it sounds like the gods are determined to squish them flat this year. :(

[Tsiyu]

13. It's just lovely the way the colors mix in your garden

I love to throw a bunch of different stuff together too. My front beds have snow peas along the back ( still blooming a bit) 6 roses, two are blooming and one is budding, cosmos staked and some blooming, a geranium, cannas, gladiolus, dianthus, mums, strawberry plant (!!!!) and I can't remember what else- spurge, impatiens, wildflowers I can't remember the name of that are related to ageratum, bluets, ferns and ahuge floppy lamb's ear. Everything has survived but the setbacks have cost me blooms!

In the rear I have ferns, impatiens, hostas, dead nettle, primrose, coleus, foamflower and a crapload of wildflowers ( all bloomed out except the foamflower!) There is one humongous bed and two smaller ones- one has iris and mayflower and ferns and all the rest, the other has rosemary, oregano, all my other herbs plus some Blue night salvia, impatiens and blue lobelia.

Then I have another area I started to plant with some of the above plus foxgrapes, trilliums, columbine, bleeding heart and lord knows what else.....I forget half the stuff I plant!

Along my front fence are lilies and a few hollyhocks and gladiolus.

Soon I will post some pictures cuz the flowers really look nice in spite of the conditions, and it does cheer me to see it all in spite of the fact that some things are really damaged - butterfly bush and roses to name a few.

I love to see other DUers gardens, GPV. Thanks for showing us yours!

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Now THAT is a cottage garden! *g* You are better behaved than I, though.

I don't stake plants.... too lazy *g*... So I have bendy twisty mallow wandering through the pansies and whatnot instead of towering over them.

[Tsiyu]

18. I've been awful about it in the past

You HAVE to stake those freakin gladiolus or they just flop...but I would just let them flop anyway. But with the new pups and chickens running all over in three different tribes, I found if I stake them the animals don't run all over everything.

They are getting better though, due to my constant yelling.

I bet those flowers really lighten your spirit. Did you vote in the photography contest this time? Some great shots- and your garden could have been one of them, methinks.

Have a pleasant day, whatever you're doing GPV :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. The way I keep my glads uprightis is

I plant them in the middle of my iris and daylily stands to that the leaves prop them up a bit. (I didn't even plant glads yet this year... not sure if I will cause it is getting so late)

[Tsiyu]

22. Ah, throw em in there

yeah, I've got some of the cosmos winding over the roses. It's nice to just let everything "do it's thing."

I got more ambitious this year, but I get a lot of plants free so it's a way to improve my surroundings without a lot of $$$$.

I'd throw the glads in. They may not bloom til September, but so what? People will think you're a genius for having glads in September!!!!

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. I'll give it a whirl.. just gotta get some $$ outta the other half *g*

[GreenPartyVoter]

26. I just discovered two new plants in my garden :^D

I had thrown some verbascum and canterbury seeds in there 2 years ago.. Apparently they survived my "weeding" (I never know what's a flwoer and a weed, short of 5 plants that for certain weeds in my book)

[Tsiyu]

28. Kewl!

I just discovered my beebalm has bloomed! I'll have to look up verbascum and canterbury....those are new ones...and I have the same problem. I pulled up a bunch of dianthus without realizing it wasn't grass :eyes: among other things....I hate when I do that...

[GreenPartyVoter]

29. I tore out my maiden pinks doing the same thing!

Man, we are like.. twins or sumthin. *l*

Verbascum


Canterbury bells (i have one stalk and it's not packed full like these)

[Tsiyu]

30. Oooh! Pretty

Thanks for saving me the research! I have to go check all the Sunday Morning want ads now but I'll be back later, PlantEating Twin! :pals:

[GreenPartyVoter]

31. If you don't see me later today it's because of the funerals

My mom, grandfather, and great aunt are all being interred tomorrow.. we split the memorial services between today and tomorrow.

So it's a sad weekend, but at the same time it's nice to see some of my family I haven't seen in ages.

[Tsiyu]

39. What in the world?

Check back and fillme in. or I will search. I am so sorry to hear...:hug:

[GreenPartyVoter]

45. Hi .. I'm back *hugs* It was a bad year for my

dad's side of the family. His aunt died in september, his dad in Novemeber, and his wife (my mom) in January.

We're doing memorial services today and tomorrow and the interment of the ashes. A tough week in a lot of ways but maybe it will help me start to find some closure. (I think I will take some of my flowers tomorrow for the graves.)

[LibraLiz1973]

44. Oh my! I am so sorry!!

That seems like a freak occurrence.

Take care of yourself & enjoy that gorgeous garden!!!!!!
I am jealous of your overly green thumb!

[GreenPartyVoter]

46. Thank you *hugs* No need for jealousy. If flowers can survive having

me for a gardener then anyone can do it. *g* You just have to find the sturdiest plants for your region. That's why I grow so many wild flowers. They are very resistant to what I do to them.

[bigwillq]

12. Beautiful!

Thanks for sharing.:hi:

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Thank you. Next time I will remember to turn off the flash so the

colors don't wash out. Those iris area deep dark purple, but in the pics they look lavenderish.

[Lex]

14. What an explosion of color! I love it!

Beautiful. Thank you for posting that pic.

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. Thank you. I will try to pst more pics later in the summer as it changes

[samplegirl]

24. How lovely

Looks like others can enjoy the roadside view.

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. Yes and no :^) The dirt road is one that leads to a dead end but

people can sorta see the flowers from the main road that was a couple hundred feet behind me when I took that shot. Or they could if they didn't drive like bats outta you know where. :P

[auntAgonist]

27. Your garden

is beautiful! I kill plants dead :(
I checked out your website and other photos, ...very nice.

k.

[GreenPartyVoter]

33. I kill them dead too.. The trick is too find plants that super sturdy that

can withstand having black thumb gardeners. ;)

[WePurrsevere]

32. Beautiful and very nice pic. What Zone are you in?....

Although I LOVE gardening we just moved into out new house so no real garden yet. :(

I have a thing about waiting one growing season (Zone 4/5 here) before planting too many permanent plants in a new place since I want to see exactly what is here already and how the sun and shade varies over the seasons. Already I'm making sketches and taking notes and will take pics of what is where as flowers show up so I'll be ready in the Fall and next Spring when we'll slowly build up our new cottage garden transplanting from around here, using plants from our old house (where DD lives now) as well as new ones. :)

Are those Foxglove with the Iris? Those purple almost look like lupines but..?? are they? :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

34. I am zone 4/5 too. Yes, the purple spires are lupines.. something weird

happened to them and they came up all cork-screwy.. and a lot of the other ones collapsed at the root. I am worried that I might have cut worms.

You are wise to wait and see what is already growing where you are now. I am so impatient I am sure I couldn't wait. :P Still, you could make up lots of containers to at least surround yourself with some fave flowers.

[WePurrsevere]

35. Hmmm... odd lupines and collapsed at the root?

Did you have an unusually wet Spring like we did?

The reason I ask is from what I've seen of cut worms the plant looks literally like it's been cut. If you are worried about cut worms have you tried a small strip of aluminum foil at the base? That's what I use on my tomatoes which they love.

The lupines are rather interesting like that.. they remind me a bit of delphinums.

Same Zone eh? You're not in Northern NY by any chance are you? :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

37. Yes, very wet spring.. in fact I suspect the curly lupines tiwsted due

to their weight from heavy rain.. The broken ones, though, don't look cut so much as bent in half. That actually might have been the result of weight due to rain too, I guess.

I'm not in northern NY, though. Coastal Maine. :) We are famous for our lupines here. ;)

[WePurrsevere]

40. All of the Northeast was pretty well soaked....

and I envy you living on Coastal Maine. Although we love it up here near the 1000 Islands we love the coast of Maine. It's been quite a few years but we enjoyed camping there a few times and although I remember the lupines I remember the glorious ocean waves and the playful sea otters much better. :)

[musical_soul]

36. You have a beautiful garden.

Is it a lot of hard work to grow them?

[GreenPartyVoter]

38. Welcome to DU and thanks. It _should be_ more work than I put in

but if you can find the right combo of plants for your area, they'll pretty much take care of themselves. For example, tropical plants don't do well here in Maine unless you buy them already grown. I love fuschias, but they aren't something that winters over well. But irises and ox-eye daisies and lupines and phlox.. well they all grow wild here anyway, so they couldn't care less if I take care of them. The reall chore is keeping them tidy rather than babying them along.

The worst work for me is that I don't use mulch (am thinking about it though) to smother the weeds. So every month I screw up my determination and wade through the garden beds clearing them out. I nhate hot weather, though, so they get ignored during July and August most years. :P

[NYdemocrat089]

43. Very nice garden!

You must work hard maintaining it.

[GreenPartyVoter]

47. Thanks. I really dont;. A spurt of weeding every month or so but other

than that and the occasional watering, the plants do their own thing. :)