Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Checking in on the Garden


I did not do a lot of work on the garden this year. We painted the fence white and laid some slate tiles in a spiral. The rose bush did not do well, victim of the cats leaping around and breaking its canes in the early spring.



Luckily, the neighbor's morning glories climbed over the fence.



I trained a few vines from our side up the fence to meet the others.



We put a bin on the patio to gather leaves for mulch and weeds grew out of it.



A morning glory climbed up the bars on our window.



Out of the base of the crate sprouted the usual suspects that grow literally everywhere.



I love this little blue flowered weed and I am delighted that it sprang up. I had seen them out front last year and was tempted to transplant them. But I decided that transplanting weeds is like playing with fire. If I find some next year I may change my mind. The flowers remind me of lobelia, without all the fragility.



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This castor plant self seeded and came back from last year.



It was so pretty with its purple stems and veins. Unfortunately, I accidentally cut its delicate stem while trimming the grass and it withered on the vine.



I felt really bad, but then the scarlet runner beans, which had been a little depressed, suddenly got it together and bloomed.

Some things I planted this year are still settling in like the wisteria and the forsythia. The light is shifting and the plants seem to know that the season is winding down.

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