Not much to show for flowers this summer. Too much rain and not enough sunshine. We kind of messed up and didn’t put our cosmos and marigold seedlings in bigger containers soon enough. We lost almost all of them. We will learn from this and hopefully do better next year. The blazing stars were pretty sad, partly due to the rabbits and squirrels. The squirrels have eaten the buds on all of our dahlias. They should have had several flowers by now but there just hasn’t been enough sunlight for them.
September 9, 2018
Peter Lindelauf and Rajini Rao, how are your gardens?
September 9, 2018
My columbine is blooming for the second time! I’m really excited about that. Aside from that, I mostly did not weed this summer so the flowerbed was a jumbled mess. Still, a few flowers braved it, and a lot of fireweed.
September 9, 2018
Too much rain as well. Plus Benny the lawn guy got super aggressive about pruning the shrubs and hacked up my rose bushes and everything else in the middle of summer…he thought he was being helpful :/ So quite a disaster over all. At least I got a lot of heirloom tomatoes and green peppers, although the bunnies got all the greens.
September 9, 2018
Rajini Rao sounds like Peter Lindelauf is having a better summer.
September 9, 2018
Christina Talbott-Clark do you have photos? Columbine can be quite pretty.
September 9, 2018
Peter Lindelauf I’m sure Patchy would like to help dig anything up.
September 9, 2018
This is from the first bloom. I haven’t taken a photo of the second bloom. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pGLbpyiYua69GwCifRXPR2ANeB-RpeDTn4ors-MOfE5KPbcUTf8zWWUlYNQ4iebjfh26caObRXJp8Bg_Z87U6IR8cQSFQkcZ8lH4=s0
September 9, 2018
And we had quite a hot June and July, and the rosebush did very well. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VWSJLnl_XSly6YyfU_tvEtCtCrUGLyYKXjC0v1q8Jc1iqVmEprdUCN3WzlyKWy-5BIg1fSxfRTGxS-68nFETh6_hyKdPS8_oEdmF=s0
September 10, 2018
Not in England then, we had too much sunshine & not enough rain
September 10, 2018
Yes now I know I only realised the squirts eat new Buds and leaves Devils in the winter