Happy Summer!
At last, summer. My most favorite season. My favorite season at the moment. As with the change of seasons, the flowers also start to change. We will slowly go from the cool annuals and many of the perennials, to the summer flowers that include the zinnias, cosmos, snapdragons and oh so much more. It is so exciting to go out into the garden each morning and see what I am in store for.
Right now the campanula is going strong, as well as the yarrow, bupleurum, foxglove and delphinium. I have harvested the eremurus…
The wealth of flowers is mind boggling, in my opinion anyway.
The pansies are still going strong and I am starting to get some really long stems that make them fun to add to arrangements, and the sweet peas, that I’m not growing, are going crazy so I am making kitchen windowsill posies of mixed small flowers that are really charming. They are also good for the bedside table in the guest room.
I have finally been able to track down some litre pots of Viburnum opulus ‘roseum’ which is fabulous for cutting large stems for event work, or small stems for arrangements. I thought I had ordered four plants, which I had room for, but apparently for shipping it was four sets of two, so I received eight plants. With a little scurryring I found room in the partial lilac row that is now full of odd plants. Oh well, I found room for them all. NOW. I am all done buying woodies. No more room and now matter how badly I want it, and how long it has been on my wish list. NO. No more woodies, Kerwin.
Most of the dahlias have emerged now so in another week they will get their feed and pinch to make them bush out. I have also finally pinched the zinnias, it was hard to cut them down and lose the flowers, but it is for the best, and half of the celsoia has been done as well. I will say that by the middle of July, the summer annuals will be going gang busters with bloom.
Besides deadheading the peonies that I left on the bushes, I also need to keep up with the mowing and I want to broadfork the isles of the peonies to see if I can improve the drainage. They are doing well, but I want to see if I can get them to do better, then after that I will sow some tillage radish that will also improve the drainage by opening up the compacted earth with their taproot. Have you ever heard me say I’m bored? Didn’t think so.
So until next week, Allie. I dream of flowers, do you?
Do you, or have you ever, grown Kent Oregano? I am for the first time this year, and it looks like it will be a great “spiller” in flower arrangements. I like to share things I have just discovered, in case not everyone has.
I haven’t tried it. Thank you for mentioning it.