Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah
Here I am out in the gardens...
They are very entertaining
And I hope to have some fun if it stops raining...
Wait a minute!... it's stopped raining
I can mow now
And do some weeding...
My apologies to Allen Sherman, but you get the point.... as I said on FB, I have toadstools growing out of my toadstools... You just can't please an old gardener I guess, but such is 'life on the farm' as it were...
Actually we have a marvelous day and I've been getting lots done although there is a chance of showers... it's 65 degrees with a light breeze and overcast... cool enough that the mosquitoes have run for cover. There are suddenly so many weeds that I don't know where to begin with that project and all the beds need edging which I will do today as well. I still don't have my sodding done as the sod growers can't get into the fields to cut it because of the constant rains... I'm seeing signs of chlorosis on some plants that like a bit more acidity and some lilies are yellowing. 'Silk Road' is standing over six feet tall but the flower buds seem stunted and yellowish... certainly a disappointment as I love that lily but there are plenty of others that look lush and healthy.... I pulled all the mulch away, but there really isn't much else to be done at this stage of development.
We had a foggy morning a couple days ago and I find it amazing how the fog creates a dome around our dense gardens and encloses us for a few hours on rare occasions... I grew up along the banks of the Mad River in Vermont's Sugarbush Valley... the fog often clung about until 10:00 a.m. or later when the sun would rise above the mountains to the east... it was very common there and brings back a sense of the past to me as I enjoy our infrequent Wisconsin foggy mornings... Larry
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| West gardens with tree lilac still in bloom... |
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| Delphiniums, clematis. and lilies by the arbor fences are starting into bloom... the wet is creating foliage problems on the delphiniums |
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| A new stand alone Picea glauca 'Pendula' ... |
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| 'Betty Corning' clematis... |
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| Gazebo path... the magnolia is a new one from Dennis Ledvina called 'Cotton Candy' which has marvelous large true pink blooms that look like those of Campbelli only it's hardy with 7/16's acuminata in its makeup... a cross between 'Red Baron' and 'Blushing Belle'... |
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| Astilbes are beginning to bloom... here by the two year old clematis tower where clematis are starting to fill in and climb... |
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| Calliope geraniums hang on the arbor... I've yet to have to water them because of the constant rains... |
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| New terraced beds north of the garage stone wall, from the west... |
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| This area is getting too lush and some pruning will soon be in order... |
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| Birch walk... |
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| From lower driveway into the east gardens... |
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| Iris pseudata 'Chance Beauty' standing four + feet tall... |
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| A weeping blue Douglas Fir towards the east arbor... |
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| This area is being reworked for conifers... |
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| The variegated maple is a stand-out this season, especially in the fog.... Wada's Memory magnolia stands behind a Picea abies 'Pendula'... |
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| Weeping larch in training and River's Purple beech... I made a tough decision yesterday and limbed the beech up about five feet, feeling that otherwise, it would eat this part of the gardens entirely as it can spread 75'... |
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| A lone clematis bloom in the rain that caught my eye... |
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| Garden to east of birch walk... 1000's of foxglove are seeding here for next season, which I am going to allow.... |
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| One of the new Jack Frost series of acers that are a cross between palmatum and pseudosiebolianum... this is 'Arctic Jade'... the plants in the cages are hybrid tree peonies I've started from seeds... these two are rockii crosses I believe and patience is required since it's 5-7 years till first bloom generally... |
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