The Summer That Was in Indiana

Top moments from this year in the garden

inspire by Cherry Ong ’s post yesterday , this is Joseph , your GPOD editor , share some present moment from the retiring summertime in my northern Indiana garden . I hope you ’ll send in some shots from your garden this summertime too ! It ’s always fun to see what went well for everyone .

I plant this climb rose ‘ Dortmund’next to the fencelast summertime , and this class it grew enough that I could start civilize it along . That process is a turn tedious , as ‘ Dortmund ’ is quitethorny , but I really love the effect . I ca n’t wait for next year when it will overlay even more of the fencing with flower . ( Please ignore the chaos in the background . This garden had been totally abandon before we prompt in , so it is taking lots of work to get everything wait good again . )

I go this littleDianthusat a local nursery . It was miss a tag , so I do n’t know what it is , but I care it so much that I ’ve been takingcuttingsand overspread it around the garden .

I turn this beautiful and fragrantrosefrom seed . It does n’t have a name , both the humblebee and I wish it a heap .

I put a littleherb gardenin a planter loge I made , and it turned into a groovy habitat . Thiscaterpillargrew up to be a swallowtailbutterfly , fueled by theparsleythat I had originally project to run through but was happy to sacrifice to the caterpillars .

Oreganohas the good flavor if harvested before it flowers — or so I ’ve been told . How could I not allow it flower when the bee get it on it SO MUCH ! It was hard to get film of them all , but I counted at least five different kinds of bees on the bloom in just one even .

Here ’s another uprise seedling that does n’t have a name . It ’s not fragrant , but it ’s very pretty . The only downside is that the flower petal do n’t dribble off cleanly , so if you do n’t deadhead , they hang on looking brown and slimy .

I love hollyhocks ( Alceahybrids , Zones 3–8 ) ! They looked great during the showtime of the summer .

I love growing matter from seed and am particularly proud of this batch of black lacecactus(Echinocereusreichenbachii , Zones 5–9 ) . They start out low but apace bulk up . This species is native to many quite moth-eaten part of western North America and in hypothesis should be hardy alfresco for me here , but I venerate that our fuddled autumns and springs will be too much and make them rot . I ’m trying to decide if I need to take a chance plant them out in the garden or just keep them in the container and move them into the garage to remain juiceless for the cold part of the year .

Chrysanthemum‘Yellow Quill ’ has been a mavin as summer has changed into drop . This is my first year with it and I ’m quite in sexual love . And it ’s unfearing to Zone 3 !

The open form of the ‘ Yellow Quill ’ flowers means they have pollen to offer the bees .

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