I have four gardens. Not bad
for a condo. There is my front garden,
deck garden and back gardens
(yes, there are two of them in the back).
As you can see, the bee balm,
morning glory and moonflower vines, and phlox are over achieving. I don’t
remember the white phlox doing so well last year. This year it has practically
smothered the pink. That will be remedied next year.
The bleeding heart is twice
as big this year as last. And there are two mums that came back from last year.
I probably should have trimmed them back, but it’s probably too late now, so
I’ll just let them go.
Take a look at my ornamental
peppers! You can’t see it in the photo, but some of them are already turning
orange. And last but not least the azalea is so much happier in its new spot.
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| Phlox in back. Morning glory vine w/moon flowers, bee balm front right, bleeding heart front left |
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| You can see the pink phlox, mums behind bleeding heart, little azalea center left and the ornamental peppers |
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| See the first, tiny morning glory deep in the vines? |
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| This piece of mangled wire fencing was under and behind my morning glory vines. Not mine! |
Out on the deck the tomatoes
are finally beginning to ripen. Of course I expect them to ripen all at once!
That’s ok. Once I get several tomatoes very ripe I will blanch, skin, cook down
and freeze. Then, when I need to make my next batch of spaghetti sauce or cream
of tomato soup…I’ll have them.
The railing boxes are
fantastic! Begonia, vinca, and upright fuchsia.
Now we come to the lower
gardens in the back. On the right I have hosta in the back, sedum to one side,
more mums that survived last year. All of these seem to be doing very good even
the tall weed. I think it’s a weed…I’m just letting it grow to see what it
does. The coleus is not doing well at all. I think it’s the soil, which tends
to be very heavy. That little evergreen tree is going to be moved next year to
give my neighbor and me an extra 12 inches each for plants.
On the other side there’s not
much going on. The roses are not doing well this year and the sunflowers I
planted didn’t do well. I think it’s the wrong kind of soil for sunflowers. The
flowers were beautiful and all of a sudden they were dead. The rest of the
plant is fine. Just the flowers died.
Next year everything is going
to change in all my gardens…but, I’m keeping that to myself for now. My gardens
are speaking to me and I’m listening.
