Bloom is running a bit late this season as the weather continues to be quite moderate...cool and damp actually. Having installed all the new plantings and annuals, attention turns to edging of the beds and mulching. In fact, I have pretty much spent the better portion of twenty-five yards of mulch and have another twenty-five yards on order for tomorrow. Below is an example of a completed area, this one housing the new Sciadopytis verticillata 'Joe Kozey'
Every so often I like to hand cut the edges of the gardens with a half moon edger... thereafter maintaining with a power edger. Pictured below are the tools of the process... I use a DR Power Wagon to transport the sods to the compost, its power dump being of great advantage to my arthritis! The return trip involves bringing a load of mulch to place on the cleaned up areas of the gardens...
Up the front steps as well as in many other areas of the gardens, dianthus is coming into bloom and the scent permeates the air...
The climbing hydrangeas are also in full bloom...
Despite not considering myself a perennial gardener, it dawned on me today that I do in fact have a great number of perennials... I just don't have perennial beds, preferring to use them as accompaniments to conifers, shrubs and trees, as in the case of these dictamnus plants...
We were a way for several days this past week and I seem to have missed the peak bloom of the intersectional peonies... on the other hand, intersectionals have a long bloom period and we will enjoy them for some time to come as individual buds open over a lengthy period of time...
There appear to have been some severe wind and rain while we were away... It's a good thing that I staked my herbaceous Tinka Philips which has gotten to a massive size with a width of about six feet and height of four and a half feet...
I have done two treatments of Sluggo this season and the hostas look great so far... I actually seldom find slugs on the property, in part thanks to our healthy toad population...
The Calliope pelargoniums on the arbor are starting to develop nicely and I really like the color...
Throughout the gardens bloom is becoming more evident... a huge Persicaria polymorpha blooms on the southwest corner of the property...
It is also the season of Siberian iris... I'm not pleased with the number of bloom stalks this season and wonder if last summer's drought had an ill effect on the plants... individually, the blossoms are lovely and several cultivars are pictured below...
I decided to use one of the cattle tanks as a planter for a number of non-hardy succulents this season... it's getting colorful already...
I'm anticipating some great things from the delphiniums this season... the variety below, blooming for the first time, has individual florets to almost 3" in width...
Self-seeded digitalis is adding its vertical presence to the gardens as well...
All for now... Larry
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