Friday Garden Report

Yes, it's more widows tears, aka, spiderwort. As has happened in a few spots around the garden this spring, this plant was nibbled down by one of our resident bunnies after its early growth...and so, it's blooming much lower to the ground than the stuff normally does. No harm, no foul as far as the rabbits are concerned, I'd say. It makes for a nice group shot with the ever-merry allyssum.

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Here's that one heliotrope flower bud. It's over three feet tall now, and unfortunately received an accidental "hosing" (with the hose itself, not the usual water inferred...) recently; it is thriving with a little support. The one at work began blooming this afternoon (ah, what a fragrance...), and I think I'll find this one perfuming the back garden over the weekend.


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From left to right in the background: foxglove, agastache and lupines.

There's big banana-like daylily buds all over the place, including this one in the back.

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Here it's neighbors include (l to r) autumn sedum, some ornament grass (a nice airy rounded fave of mine, the tag and name long lost to frequent moving...), some fancy yarrow just finding it's color, and goldenrod for later in the season.

Yarrow's color up close, while down below, an orange calendula makes a bull's eye.

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You'll find an array of things growing in this part of the garden...often strawberries gone wild. They make a decent ground cover, and there are so many that I don't feel bad weeding out those which seem inconvenient.


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I offer this photo mainly for its focus on the two milkweed plants. These are also growing everywhere, which I'm quite happy for, as they are an important butterfly support species. And their blossoms are bizarrely fascinating, too, to me and the bugs!

Two bright pink portulaca, which I will hereafter refer to by their more romantic name, Moss Rose, joined the show today.

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I offer them--along with my best wishes for success and simple pleasures--to my pal, Sara, who begins a new chapter of her life in the Big Apple this week.
Look out, Carrie Bradshaw, there's a new woman in town!

I've forgotten, two days running now, to post this look inside the once-again abandoned nest in the andromeda bush out front. So here it is today (we didn't have sun anything like that this overcast and foggy day...tho no real rain yet, either).


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Neither the cardinals nor the robins could bear the cat's attention through the window. Recently, a catbird has flown in a few times...now there's a match that could work.