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| No pelting inwards 2 months? If you're Salvia greggii (autumn sage), land you lot don't care. |
We're going through a dry out spell.
H5N1 no-rain-in-two-months kinda dry out spell.
I recognize that's no big bargain inwards unopen to parts of the province (e.g., California, Arizona, heck fifty-fifty Pacific Northwest inwards the summertime), but it's quite odd inwards the Southeast.
Still, I gauge I'd rather convey a drought instantly than inwards the Spring. At to the lowest degree this fourth dimension of year, plants are getting laid upwards to become dormant for wintertime anyway then many of them simply telephone telephone it quits in addition to unopen downwards a lilliputian sooner inwards the instance of a drought.
(At least, I'm hoping that's the case. Clearly I won't know whether there's whatever to a greater extent than serious impairment until the shrubs leafage out in addition to the perennials emerge from dormancy - or non - following spring.)
Nonetheless, amongst alone minimal amounts of supplemental irrigation, unopen to plants inwards the garden decease along to pose on a fantastic show, attracting in addition to supporting beautiful wildlife...
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| Balloon bloom (Platycodon grandiflorus) |
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| More balloon flowers even then to come! They're budding in addition to getting laid upwards to bloom equally nosotros caput toward mid-November! |
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| Bee on the blanket bloom (Gaillardia x grandiflora). This is a volunteer blanket flower. I similar how this photograph shows the multiple stages the bloom goes through. On the bottom right, you lot convey a bud simply starting to open. After the bloom blooms, the petals autumn off to divulge a yellowish puffball. Eventually, you lot convey the smaller silvery starbursts that fade to tan. It's difficult to holler back of a bloom that looks prettier at every phase of its life! |
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"This bloom ain't big plenty for the 2 of us."
"Um...yes it is." |
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| Blue mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum), a native that's been blooming for months in addition to attracting pocket-size clouds of skipper butterflies on warm days. (This was a cool, breezy morning. No butterflies inwards sight.) |
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| Unknown Camellia sasanqua and honeybee. This flora in addition to a few Russian sages are the favorite plants for honeybees inwards my autumn garden. |
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| Aronia arbutifolia (red chokeberry). The berries are pretty, but birds don't seem interested inwards them. And having tried them, I tin post away say you lot there's a argue they're called chokeberry - their astringency is off the charts. I may genuinely endure removing this flora from the front end foundation in 1 lawsuit these berries convey fallen off. The foundation planting is a lilliputian overcrowded in addition to I'd rather hand to a greater extent than infinite to the following oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia). |
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| A few pretty fruits on the 'Sugar Tyme' crabapple. I holler back this crab gets ravaged yesteryear cedar-apple rust fungus spread from all the nearby eastern redcedars that I planted (Juniperus virginiana). It's a pity. Maybe it would produce amend on decent soil amongst irrigation, but it's surviving (and sending upwards suckers) on heavy clay inwards hot baking Sun all day. |
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| Senna marilandica (wild senna) seedpods. Lots of seedpods on this plant. I harvested many of the seeds, but convey left these to dry out on the flora (and hopefully furnish unopen to volunteers). |
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| Tomatoes inwards November?! Well, nosotros convey had tape warmth recently... This is an unnamed volunteer cherry love apple tree that sprung upwards following to the house. I didn't harvest many fruits from it this year, but the chipmunk(s) got some. |
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| The autumn drought has meant that leafage colors convey been muted for the close part, but this Viburnum ashei is putting on a adept show. Love the reds! |
Wish you lot a beautiful calendar month in addition to a happy, hopeful, peaceful vacation flavor ahead...
Reviewed by technologinews92
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July 07, 2018
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