The maintenance gardener is feeling sad. He was hoping the spurt of energy would last through the summer mowing season. That is not what happened.I was in the hospital for two nights and three days last week because the drain catheter in my right lung got infected. Another CT scan showed the cancer had grown right back. Instead of any improvement, I have gone back to sleeping most of the day. The ..read more

I have not been feeling well the last couple of months. The garden grows a little wilder by the day.Movement has slowed. The tall flower meadow blooms on.The rambling Clematis stans has ebbed and flowed and held on with the competition.The Doll's Eyes have come out to look.Joe Pye bends with the wind while butterflies glide and hummingbirds zoom through the air.And golden Rudbeckia drifts in ..read more

I appear to be on the late summer route.The bear is a regular morning visitor it seems. They probably always have been. I have just never been home during the day to see them so often.I like this cropped picture better. It shows off the Tall Flower Meadow coming into full bloom and the bear to better advantage.The bear went up the stairs. Time to get in the house. The bear poops all over the ..read more

I wandered out to a late summer wildflower meadow yesterday to take some pictures of the ever-increasing floral abundance to share for the Bloom Day post, then ran out of energy before I could finish. I'm a day late. Such is the way it is these days.The tall flower meadows are having a stellar bloom this year. A vision in my head from long ago has finally been turned into a reality. I did what I ..read more

In between rain showers, when the meadow is dry, is a good time to wander into the garden to see all that is a bloom.A lavender Beebalm.Purple LiatrisPurple ConeflowerPost white Fly Poison fading to greenBlack-Eyed-SusanInto a blooming meadow ..read more

The morning air of late has been just right for the putrid stench of Voodoo to emanate from the parking lot and infuse the garden. That aroma has been starting off my day. The sweet smell of 'Lemon Drop' azalea is no more.The meadows are popping with all kinds of flowers, far more than I can show. The chicory is still going strong.Purple Coneflowers and Black-Eyed-Susan are opening abundantly to ..read more

This is the absolute latest rising of the Voodoo Lilies that I can recall. It seems they would be fully leafed out around the end of June in the past. I could go back in time on the blog and find out. The worldwide record heat wave is slow to reach the mountain top thank you very much.I can't help myself. I made a tray of baby voodoo. They hang on the front porch for the summer with the house ..read more

I missed a few Bloom Day posts because........ This mostly green stroll through the garden is strewn with flowers if you look close enough. It will have to do for my return to this month's Bloom Day offering. The flowers were not my focus on this walk in the garden. I was trying to capture the mood.I'm running into another photo storage filing error limit it seems. I never did anything about the ..read more

It would be a shame not to show you some fetching pictures of the chicory with Miscanthus 'Morning Light'.  It is hard not to smile looking at such a pretty sky blue fallen to the ground.The Bottlebrush Buckeye is now showing.And the 'Lemon Drop' azalea perfumes the air ..read more

Hundreds and hundreds of daylilies are blooming across the mountain top in the summer warmth and sunshine. This is Bulbarella's doing. I just got caught in the expansion.Daylilies like to expand on their own and pop up in all kinds of places in all kinds of daylily colors. The roadside vegetable garden is surrounded by a riot of summer bloom. The Hydrangea 'Haas Halo' has turned white ..read more