The garden in late August
Coenosia tigrina on yarrow
Little fly with a big name on yarrow
Honeysuckle
Rose
Buddleja
Saururus cernuus in the pond
Commonly called 'lizard's tail', this aquatic plant disappears completely in winter.
Pears have been disappointing. Lots of pear rust and only three or four pears from the trees.
Apples have been very productive - a large basketful every day.
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This cane begonia is ridiculously easy to propagate and grows like a weed.
This is another of the house plants enjoying a summer holiday outside. This is Pachira aquatica, known as the Guiana chestnut or Money tree.
Your garden is both beautiful and bountiful :)
ReplyDeleteThank you :-)
DeleteYour August garden looks terrific. May it last until October.
ReplyDeleteI hope so. We might have an 'Indian summer' to make up for the English summer . . .
DeleteA lovely variety of photos showing nature in all its beauty. 😁
ReplyDeleteThank you.
ReplyDeleteLovely to see flowers and fruit where they belong....
ReplyDeleteGrowing out the ground, and flowers not cut and put
into silly vases on a window sill...As Monty Don, always
says...when you 'cut' a flower, you 'cut' it's life in half....!
I do not..and will not entertain 'cut' flowers in my home,
plants yes..growing in mother earth, again where they
belong...! :O)
Love the buddleja...and the fly of course....! :O).
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You're thinking along the same lines as George Bernard Shaw:-)
DeleteMany of us live in a world of cursory observation of the macro and miss the wonderful beauty of small flowers and insects. You do both genres proud.
ReplyDeleteThank you :-)
DeleteYour flowers and fruits are amazing to see. I plant 2 small beds, one with perennials and one with deer resistant annuals. So I have color as much as possible. But the 3 miles I walk here, only one or 2 homes do the same. I love green, but really, to hang Boston ferns in tree branches instead of impatient plants! So I enjoy photos, thanks. And yes the apple trees were planted 10 years ago with the herd in mind, lol.
ReplyDeleteDeer are beautiful. It's good you can plant things they won't eat.
DeleteAmazing - and garlic chives at this time of year? Ours flowered in spring and completely died back in that hot June (or maybe it wasn't garlic chives but something else with similar flower and strong garlic flavour). Your fruit looks amazing too - you clearly have a great garden.
ReplyDeleteAll our chives are still flowering but the mint is beginning to look a bit motheaten.
DeleteWhat a lot you got!!
ReplyDeleteI shall creep away in shame now and hide in a corner.
Oh, no, don't do that! The photographs are very selective;-)
ReplyDeleteYour garden is doing well, Janice, and is definitely putting mine to shame. However, I just read your reply to the commenter above me, and selective photography is actually what I do too :-) xxx
ReplyDeleteI should show it, warts and all - but warts are so unattractive ;-) x x x
DeleteOh! that's a lot... Quite beautiful :-)
ReplyDeleteEverything is working so hard in the garden.
DeleteThose plums look delicious! My garden is looking pretty shabby compared to yours.
ReplyDeleteIt's the first year we've had a good crop of plums - probably the last, too ;-)
DeleteSo much colour and produce, except pears, it's begonias giving full colour in my little plot.
ReplyDeleteBegonias give so much for such a long time.
DeleteSplendid flowers/plants and splendid photos! I particularly like the white buddleia (alternative spelling?). I recall a quote from Christopher Lloyd saying it is "a first rate second class plant" but I've always liked it and pollinators are flocking to our purple blooms just now.
ReplyDeleteI like them, too, and they're valuable for insects, so worthy in my book.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful colours and shapes - and I bet the smells are wonderful in person.
ReplyDeleteIt's lovely to get a waft of scent from them.
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