A Morning in the Garden – What’s Blooming 6/14/21

Yesterday I tried to get out early, (9:30) I know that’s not early enough. I knew before I went out that my legs weren’t feeling too strong. I was tired of looking out the window at all the things that needed to be done. I wanted to concentrate on my major perennial bed, (the one lined with the beer bottles). I needed to deadhead a low growing perennial with small yellow flowers, that for the life of me I can’t remember the name and I never entered it in my garden journal. Anyway, it will bloom all summer if you keep deadheading. I also needed to cut down the Goldenrod, Solidago “Solar Cascade.” If you want it to bloom in the fall, you need to cut it down to about 5 inches, in June.

Needless to say it was hot out and of course there were weeds so I started in the shade, pulling weeds and cleaning up one of the batches of Iris’. I noticed the tall Salvia was starting to bloom and the daffodils I had previously tied up had finally died back and so I cleaned them up. My husband helped with cutting back the Goldenrod since it was in the sun. I continued to weed going into the sun, which wore me out very quickly.

I didn’t want to go in so I moved into the shade garden. There I continued to weed and saw that the small Hydrangea planted there was also blooming as well as the Lamb’s Ear. I have a love/hate relationship with Lambs Ear. It spreads quickly and pops up all over your yard. I love the way it looks and feels. Since it does pull up very easily, I can keep it in line as long as I can get out there. Unfortunately I didn’t last much longer and needed to go in.

The Lilies all along the driveway are now blooming and so is the dwarf Butterfly Bush I have at the bottom of the deck stairs.

I also spray painted the hummingbird feeder. The red glass, (which wasn’t red glass at all) had worn off and I wanted to make it red again without using food coloring to change the water color. I know that a hummingbird feeder doesn’t have to be red, and in fact we sell many that aren’t red in the garden shop. My personal experience has shown me that they are attracted to the red, so therefore that’s what I use. I haven’t seen a hummingbird yet and hopefully I will soon.

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