2024

April 2024. Earlier tulips here and more daffodils! This gets south and west sun. (off to right on border). We have to decide what to put in this garden this year. We have sweet pea seeds and bought another rose for the trellis to try again. We did decide zinnias are better here than cosmos. We are debating on the dahlias but we kept them. We are going to fill in the tree stump with soil - seedlings did sprout there but need something tall! Not as many alliums returned here unlike the other garden so need to plant more this fall. We propagated another sambuca elderberry in late winter for the backyard. We found a sunflower (?) amongst the elderberry and will move it. I should probably prune the elderberry. The yew that was in the white pot last year (for height) fell over in the winter and is sickly and may not make it. We should have planted in ground in fall. 

2023

September 2023.

The cosmos are in bloom! They are much taller and more prolific than we expected. The sunflowers and zinnias are blooming as well as the dahlias. Its a little wilder than we expected! That canna lily just keeps blooming with the southern exposure. You can barely see our redbud tree but its doing okay.   

August 2023.

Definitely a dahlia bed. They seem to love it here. We also grew sunflowers after being eaten in the backyard- we hope to see some soon! The canna lily is huge! Our redbud tree is growing. The cosmos are thick and starting to flower. The liatris have already bloomed and we like the zinnias mixed in with them - those zinnias we started inside. The euphorbia is also huge. Sadly, the climbing rose has not flourished - stem broken after a storm and cosmos and sunflowers are blocking sunlight. 

We need some good July bloomers/color here after the allium - or could be the all dahlia garden with some more plants in front of them. The canna will have to move next year - the stump is decomposing and not stable - but we love it while we have it. The stump is "growing" flowers now so new plans. The yew should be planted around Labor Day in the ground. 

May 2023: The giant alliums are the focal point. We also grew a canna cleopatra in a pot for the stump. We also planted zinnias grown from seed amongst the liatris. We moved the smokebush due to eventual size. Since the umbrella pine did not make it through winter, we added a yew, in a pot for now until planted for more height. Hostas went under the lilac bush. The lilac bush is not as healthy this year, but blooming and will get a prune soon. We planted firespinner delosperma between the blue fescue coming back to life. We also planted some dahlias. The raspberries are all over and volunteers need to be pruned.  We are waiting for our new climbing rose and tree to leaf as they were planted as bareroots. We're nervous mamas. We sprinkled some cosmos and sunflower seed to see if they will grow..