Scanner art by Craig Cramer, gardening & more
Herbaceous perennials I grow.
Wet and stormy week. Those lovely volunteer grass patches I posted about a week ago went down. So did my Scotch thisltes, which has never happened before. (But that happenstance has me working on a Plan B pruning plan that could transform Scotch thistles from an architectural skyscraper of a plant to a prostate groundcover. More on that later.)
A week ago:
Gotta go weed…
Coleus
Astilboides tabularis, tradescantia, Oenothera tetragona.
Whiskey barrel water garden.
Goatsbeard (Aruncus).
Lysimachia.
Japanese tree lilca (Syringa reticulata)
I don’t stake anything other than tomatoes. It rains alot this time of year. The results are predictable.
They’s still fragrant and fabulous, even if you have to get down close to take them in.
Sometimes it’s what you don’t do that counts.
The west edge of my water garden has subsided. That nice patch of lawn you see Jade standing on in my banner image has, for the past couple of years, been soggy right straight through the summer. So this summer, I decided not to fight it so hard and let a couple of patches go unmowed. Now I have a couple of nice drifts of not-too-shabby but unidentified grass growing there. One friend commented about how it enhanced the water garden from a distance by partly obscuring its rectilinear outline.
Shot a bunch of close-ups of the grass. (Can anyone ID it?) But I’m too lazy tonight to decide which I like best.
