Archives for August 2008

Lovely black eyed susan

My Black Eyed Susans are prolific this year. I don’t know how many I’ve pulled out as they creep into other areas of my garden, but I still have three or four large clumps of these bright yellow beauties cheerfully showing off their colorful blooms in my garden.

I love these flowers. They bloom from late July until sometime in October or so for me. Who doesn’t love a flower that blooms so long – especially one that blooms when most of the others have stopped?

Do you grow daisies or Black eyed susans in your garden?

The Sunflower – a true flower of summer

Whenever I see a sunflower I always think of the hot, humid, hazy days of summer. These flowers just mean summer to me. Perhaps it’s because Sunflowers are one of the first flowers I can remember liking as a child. In fact I do believe that sunflowers were one of the first flowers I ever planted too!

I can remember a hot late May or early June day up at the cottage. As my parents worked on their garden a family friend and I planted sunflower seeds. I was perhaps 7 years old at the time. Later in the year someone took a picture of me standing by the 10 or 11 foot tall row of sunflowers. It’s quite funny because I was only about four feet tall at the time and they just towered over me. Their stalks were so think that I probably could have climbed up one of the sunflowers.

Were sunflowers one of your favorite flowers as a child?

I took this photo when the sun was directly behind the sunflower. I like how bright sunlight makes the edges of the petals seems translucent.

Strawberry Candy Daylily

With a name like Strawberry Candy you know even before seeing this scrumptious daylily that it’s going to be delightful.

I grow this lovely daylily in my planted boulevard in front of my house. It grows along side Siberian Irises, malva, pink cactus dahlias, sunflowers, marigolds and other plants that bloom at various times throughout the growing season.

OOne of the best things about this gorgeous daylily is that it’s a rebloomer. Just cut down the flower stalks once blooms are finished and within a short period of time you’ll have new blooms. You can get this daylily to bloom at least three times a season with the minimal attention that I mentioned above.

French Marigolds

These are French Marigolds. I grow them around the border of my planted boulevard garden.

As you can see I also have a short bamboo fence in my little garden. It helps separate the planted area from the sidewalk. The short fence is very helpful in the spring as it lets people know that they shouldn’t walk in that area. This of course is before barely any plants have come up or when they are still quite small. I just hate having my plants trampled by people who seems to prefer to walk on the grass rather than the sidewalk!

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