Sunflowers
Watch this space, for sunflowers are a -growing!
These are GIANT sunflowers! I think they will look nice against the fence, if the voracious squirrels leave them alone (my neighbors have warned me).
This is the highly neglected side patch of lawn. It had scary big dandelions and thistles last summer. Even this spring there were a lot of dandelions but they seem smaller. I went to work digging up a patch and adding bags of sheep manure, determined to make a garden out of it.
In my mind I have dubbed it the 'Arizona' garden, and have put in plants that, to my mind, do well in dry, arid conditions. (I still don't have a hose for the front, so this is not just me being fanciful!) Sunflowers, cosmos and wildflowers - all from seed, no less! I also planted orange marigolds, sapphire blue lobelia, and colourful portulaca, that dessert succulent with rose-like blooms.
Everything seems pretty happy!
I had portulaca in my garden growing up. I recalled it as being low maintenance, and having glorious blooms within a short period of time, but these ones aren't doing that; perhaps it is because we've had so much rain this summer.
And look at the sunflowers now, a few weeks later!
Big, big, big!
When I weed among them, I feel like Jack under the beanstalk!
And the lobelia has become flat out gorgeous. I went to some trouble to get this sapphire colour one, and it was all worth it.
Colour me happy!
These are GIANT sunflowers! I think they will look nice against the fence, if the voracious squirrels leave them alone (my neighbors have warned me).
This is the highly neglected side patch of lawn. It had scary big dandelions and thistles last summer. Even this spring there were a lot of dandelions but they seem smaller. I went to work digging up a patch and adding bags of sheep manure, determined to make a garden out of it.
In my mind I have dubbed it the 'Arizona' garden, and have put in plants that, to my mind, do well in dry, arid conditions. (I still don't have a hose for the front, so this is not just me being fanciful!) Sunflowers, cosmos and wildflowers - all from seed, no less! I also planted orange marigolds, sapphire blue lobelia, and colourful portulaca, that dessert succulent with rose-like blooms.
Everything seems pretty happy!
I had portulaca in my garden growing up. I recalled it as being low maintenance, and having glorious blooms within a short period of time, but these ones aren't doing that; perhaps it is because we've had so much rain this summer.
And look at the sunflowers now, a few weeks later!
Big, big, big!
When I weed among them, I feel like Jack under the beanstalk!
And the lobelia has become flat out gorgeous. I went to some trouble to get this sapphire colour one, and it was all worth it.
Colour me happy!
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