July Flowers

Flowers for a friend

The first bouquet of roses from the garden were happily received by a friend for her wedding reception at an historical estate in Seattle this month. It was an amazing night & the roses were very nice! I also tucked in some lilies and poppies at the last minute. You can never have too many flowers.

Beauty

The garden has seen a lot of action this month. Planting, design, transplanting, clean-up and of course, my new favorite: hammock time! For now, let's look at the lovely things...and soon again I will show the progress and changes.









Feverfew is new & will be so nice for bouquets.

Campanula Tricta-something. I better look it up. I just discovered Campanulas and I wonder how I missed them all these years.

This thing is killing me...it is so good...Sundrop...but look at the hot red, ahh!

Knock-out Rainbow rose. A good find, has replaced some ugliness in the garden, more on that later.


Newly planted pot on the back patio...sunflowers, creeping jenny, sweet peas, lettuce.

Peace Rose.

Ocean Spray. A native shrub that wildlife will be loving a few years.

Vine Maple in the compost garden...please grow soon so we can have some shade.

This is a happy spot. Growing Sunflowers, Thai Basil and Verbena Bonariensis.

Indian Prune tree...I think this one is so cool. With a frog house (half buried pot) at the base.

An unknown tree is growing...it came in on a freebie from a garden tour last year...I think she said it was a fig tree...or a cherry tree...hmm. Anyone?

The Salal I planted last year has survived! I thouht it was a gonner from my neglect but I have 2 growing under the snowberry tree now, quite happily.

Maidenhair fern.

Creeping Jenny.

The lovely native snowberry tree.

Euphorbia and Heather.

Just a fairyland picture here...with an emerging magic bean. At least, it's a precious bean that a friend carefully counted out for me from her stash.

Pastel semps, just when I thought you couldn't be more gorgeous.

This was apple green when I planted it...cool!

A fried guacamole hosta who suffered in a "shade garden" that turned out to be quite sunny in the summer time. Transplanted now & hopefully going to fare better.

A fern transplanted to a shadier spot. Apparently shade is rare in this garden.

A new box for composting! Definitely a beautiful thing.

This honey, my sweetie.

Kitten, I see you are as blissed out as I am.

A new mystery. This plant was spied through the hammock holes while I lounged last night...what could this be? I am guessing Chinese Lantern Plant...anyone?

The view from the hammock. This is where it dawns on me, I am the cosmos! What's in me is powering the bird that spirals, singing and quick.

The South Hill Garden

This garden is evolving into something I think is working aestetically for me, finally.

The lavender is draped over with rainbow Leucothoe. Autumn crocus are tucked between so the foliage in summer is hidden but the bloom in autumn peeks through. Behind are orange daylilies that hover over the whole arrangement. I am thrilled with this combination.

More orange daylilies will be transplanted this fall, from other areas of the garden to hover over the wild and colorful hedge. I also transplanted tangerine, white and lavender bearded Iris to hide behind this hedge & float their blooms atop this mass come Springtime.

Finally, we dotted the hill with a nice apple green ground cover of Corsican Sandwort. It has a lovely scent of strong mint. This should take over pretty quick and really pop the whole arrangement.

Goddess planter.

I've got my lovely lady planted out with sempervivums, sedums and stonecrops.

If I'm right, they will grow and hang over her bangs for a nice Medusa effect.