Sunday Stroll/July 27

Today's Sunday Stroll includes some cleanup work, the first of the summer season. I cut down the tree mallow by the kitchen door which was just beginning to blossom a month ago, almost to the day. I'm also in the process of cutting back the orange daylilies, which began blooming on that same Sunday Stroll. So, a month of gorgeous pink and orange, brightening the whole yard. Who could ask for more? We also went out into the vegetable garden and removed the pea vines. We don't have a compost pile, as such. We feed them to the animals, and their manure becomes our garden nutrient.

It seems that every year when we pull up the pea plants, the yellow beans begin to appear.

The first dahlia, of my first year of dahlias, the Tommy Keith, which dates from 1892! I got all my bulbs from a wonderful place, Old House Gardens.

Many of the annuals we started from seed and grew under the lights are coming into their own now.

The lavatera is still stunning, a real show-stopper!

Clarkia godetia

State Fair mix zinnia

Sea shells cosmos

The tree hydrangea is blooming. It grows all over the cemetery where my grandparents and many aunts and uncles are buried, and I thought I'd like to have it in my own yard. It is up against the fence which lines the road.


And I'll close with the wonder of the daylilies.



Some of my favorites are the ones which grow alongside the wild flowers