It’s July. Where is the summer going and why is it going so fast? I need a way to slow things down, isn’t it supposed to be the lazy days of summer???
The rain took out my milkweed jungle, rather the torrents of rain and wind that came with some severe storms did. I tried to prop it back up, but it just didn’t work. Now it looks messy and the sweet smell has drifted away.
The bee balm continues to bloom and attract lots of hummingbirds, the pink bee balm has had bees and butterflies on it. Out of the mess the Joe Pye Weed and Goldenrod have appeared and will hopefully get a chance to bloom without being eaten by the deer. They are eating things fast this year, I spray it rains, they eat.
Case in point. I noticed that my yellow daylily and my Cherokee daylily were close to blooming so I sprayed them.
Today when I went to see if they were blooming or not…
That’s what I found, it’s so frustrating. I’ve got to get the rest of my plants moved this fall.
So far they haven’t reached my daylily called Joan, if they do at least I got to see it bloom!
Oddly enough they are eating my bonset this year, I wouldn’t think they’d like that it has very fuzzy leaves but..
It is usually a good five feet tall by now. Sad, I guess it will have to be moved as well. I’m thinking that a lot of the stuff at the front of the driveway and at the porch is going to end up at the deck bed and the deck bed stuff is going to end up in the shade beds. That deck area is about the only place that gets enough sun to support all these plants. Well, the former bee garden gets sun too, but that may end up as something totally different in the coming years.
I went out to do some weeding the other day, taking Tucker and Cooper with me and was trying to decide where to start. I settled on the deck bed, thinking that I really need to keep after the jewel weed. So I kneeled down and
decided on another location after almost grabbing this lovely visitor! At least five feet long, it wasn’t too bothered by my presence, just kept laying there, but I suspect had I grabbed it or stepped on it that would have been a different story!
There are so many insects which you know is fine by me as long as they aren’t munching on me! What I have seen a lot of this year are these lovely garden spiders.
I haven’t looked up what kind they are exactly but they are all over. Being the kind of person that doesn’t want to wreck their homes I weed around them and do my best not to mess up their webs. They are really very lovely!
The damselflies are back, I’ve not gotten a good picture but I’ve got dragonflies galore too!
Nature just never ceases to amaze and delight me, except the deer, they just really frustrate me!
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