What does your garden look like ... Today?

[Esther Knapicius]

Rained again last night. I am getting in one garden section and taking out some ground cover to toss in trash. it was my mistake, hope I can get most of it. soil nice and wet. roots shallow. I think its a forever chore for me each year to just dig out and toss.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

We be in a drought . . . . . . . again. **sigh**

Same here. Severe drought in my area, extreme drought a few miles away.

 

[Sean Regan]

We've not had a lot of luck with the azaleas which I bought to hide the big tub in the miiddle bed. The idea is that we can change one tub for another with something else in it, if we choose

I'd wanted it surrounded with the same variety of azaleas but couldn't get four the same, so the one at the back though a similar color flowers a month later than the others. The wires are to gently to persduade them to grow upwards rather than outwards.

Then early this year the one on the left died and I was only able to get two similar small ones to replace it.

Then later the one at the back up and died on me! They've never been short of water.

Couldn't find any acers for love nor money at either local garden centres.
So I bought a totally different one on eBay that arrived today.

I've spaced out the two I bought earlier to fill the gaps.

I'm encouraging with a wire, the one on the left to grow towards the new one to fill this gap. I'll try to get the new one to spread to the left as it grows.

I gave them all some root booster and some more soil and compost mix and a good watering.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

The native garden.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Yellow Violet

Common blue violet

Rue Anemone

Marsh marigold

Bogbean

Prairie Smoke

 

[gary350]

 

[Logan]

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Eastern redbud

Wild geranium

common blue violets

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Oh, and Jack-in-the-pulpit!

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Posting all my garden photos' in Welcome to Esther's Garden thread.

 

[Logan]

Lupins

This is from some seed that i collected from one of the others

 

[Sean Regan]

Reaching the end of the azalea and rhodo flowering season.

Our azaleas to one side of the patio.

We've let them "do their own thing," for the more than two decades they've been there.

There's no uniformity like in much of the rest of the garden, though I do prune off bits if they protrude too far over the patio. Some are now reaching the top of the fence. They give 'arry the hedgehog's house protection from the sun.

These are the sorry looking reduced to clear wilting rhodos, I bought in Aldi a couple of years ago. They don't water their plants due to "'elf n' safety." "They've rewarded my kindness."

Our two "tree azaleas," in ceramic pots. When they've finished flowering, I'll shape them up a bit.

This is our tortoiseshell rhodo. We bought this and the one to the right of it fifteen years or more ago, when they were reduced to half price, as any blooms they had, had frost burn. They started off both the same size, but this one "bolted."
Over the years I've pruned off the lower branches as they stuck out too far over the lawn. It has a wire around it to stop it spreading any more. It's always the last one to flower and there will be a lot of blooms.

The roses on the new patio are taking over "flowering duties."

 

[Logan]

Sage flowers in the front garden by the driveway

The bees love them too

 

[LouisFerdinand]

Reaching the end of the azalea and rhodo flowering season.

Our azaleas to one side of the patio.

We've let them "do their own thing," for the more than two decades they've been there.

There's no uniformity like in much of the rest of the garden, though I do prune off bits if they protrude too far over the patio. Some are now reaching the top of the fence. They give 'arry the hedgehog's house protection from the sun.

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These are the sorry looking reduced to clear wilting rhodos, I bought in Aldi a couple of years ago. They don't water their plants due to "'elf n' safety." "They've rewarded my kindness."

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Our two "tree azaleas," in ceramic pots. When they've finished flowering, I'll shape them up a bit.


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This is our tortoiseshell rhodo. We bought this and the one to the right of it fifteen years or more ago, when they were reduced to half price, as any blooms they had, had frost burn. They started off both the same size, but this one "bolted."
Over the years I've pruned off the lower branches as they stuck out too far over the lawn. It has a wire around it to stop it spreading any more. It's always the last one to flower and there will be a lot of blooms.

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The roses on the new patio are taking over "flowering duties."

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@Sean Regan, This is the first time that I have seen tree azaleas.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Redtwig dogwood started blooming

Eastern red columbine

The woodland pollinator strip along my driveway is starting to bloom.