Gardening, politics & more
You do know that Amy Stewart is delivering the Cornell Plantations lecture Wednesday? Be there or be square.
Some pix from Sunday …
Cleomes — in pots and in the ground — saved my ass this year.
Clematis on front porch pole.
The forgotten cyclamen keeps blooming.
Fall color, hybrid hazel …
… and dogwood and Parthenocissus in the spruce.
Drizzly Sunday morning. Good weather for some somewhat-soft shots of what’s going on around the garden these days.
I tend to take the asters that grow in the ‘unmanaged’ areas for granted. But occasionally I spot one that’s ‘garden-worthy’.
The bed where I have all my colchicums (from Cold-Climate Kathy and other places) has filled in a lot. I’ll rationalize that I like them better when you have to look for them, rather them coming up ‘nude’ with nothing by mulch around them.
The veggie garden border, still my favorite — what with the grasses and the bottles.
Overhead shot.
Cerinthe in a pot finally starting to bloom.
A cyclamen I’d totally forgotten about.
And I’ve forgotten genus and species on this one. It’s still cheery.
Thanks, as usual, for Carol for hosting at May Dreams. More scans here. Flower scanning directions are here. Practice up. I’ll be judging the Picture This contest in October. See Nan’s post and scans. Click on images for larger views.
Time lapse I pulled together this week from pix of our Art of Horticulture class building a sod sofa outside Roberts Hall on the Cornell University Ag Quad on Tuesday. Read more about it.