Flower Garden 9,200 feet
Summer of 2017
June in the garden -
it's Lupine, Bleeding Heart, Poppy and Columbine time!
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| I didn't even know I had a pink lupine! |
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| I love the classic Columbine. |
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| I started with one Garden Helitrope years ago, and now they have taken over the garden. I tried to fight it, but I've surrendered. They smell so wonderful, and with so many, the air is so sweet! |
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| Hoping this patch of Aspen trees on the right will take off in another year or two - and the small evergreen. |
August - that means it's Delphinium time!
Outside the garden fence - risky - but I'm trying it anyway!
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| The babies breath came back! There are two of these but the deer keep munching the other and refuse to let it grow enough to bloom. |
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| The lupines bloomed in June...and they're coming back! |
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| This is Veronica (pictured below...which is a plant within the deer fence) - this Veronica that deer find very pleasing. I moved a bunch of plants out front of the house - away from the protection of the deer fence. All the information I researched said that deer don't like Veronica. I moved four plants out and this is what they all look like today! |
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| What they should look like right now! |
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| And they've been munching on the lupine... |
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The foxglove are happy - just cut the old blooms off and it's loaded with new blooms. I'll be putting foxglove everywhere next year where I want flowers to grow outside of the deer fence - the deer don't touch these. Suppose they know they are poisonous?
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| A few sole surviving Black Eyed Susan - the deer came through and snipped off all the buds. |
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I wasn't sure if this window box would work, as it only gets a few hours of sunshine a day, but it did!
I love looking out the kitchen window at it. |
