You can tell the summer is winding down and fall is almost here.

Here’s some sage from my herb garden. As long as I cover the garden with leaves in late fall, the plant should come back in the spring.

Sedum that came from S. Thanks again S!

Now the hydrangea is starting to turn brown. But it still has plenty of purple.

It’s that time of the week!

Nasturtium. They’re nice and spread quickly. And are edible, but I haven’t tried one.

Shrub Rose beside the drive way. It doesn’t have a strong smell, and the roses aren’t as beautiful as hybrid tea roses, but it’s hardly and survives benign neglect.

Yes, I really do like the orange sunflowers. Why do you ask?

Not much but sunflowers.

But the sunflowers do look really nice.

Wow. I hadn’t realized what a slow flower month August was.

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Not much new is happening in the garden. I’ve never managed to overwinter mums, so I don’t have too many fall flowers. Though chances are I’ll end up buying some mums (again) and planting them in any blank spots (which are getting harder and harder to come by.

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Not much new is blooming, but the Black Eyed Susans are absolutely gorgeous, and there are new sunflowers every time I look.

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And do we have lots of naughtiness today!

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Here’s the weeks flower pr0n. Apparently only yellow flowers are blooming right now.

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Here is some of this weeks flower pr0n.
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After all the rain, all my plants seem to be going nuts. Flowers everywhere.

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Yes, it’s time for some hot bee on flower action!
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Here’s some of the latest flower pr0n. My daylilies other than the Stella d’Oros are blooming now, which has led me to conclude that I need to redo my front flower beds and replace some of the stella d’oros with some other plants, including some daylilies that are being crowded out by the lavender and heather.
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With lots of rain, the garden is blooming like mad. The most ridiculous plant is Michael’s Stargazer Lily. I don’t particularly like Asiatic lilies–I don’t like they way they’re so top heavy and require support–but Michael really likes them, so I have several.

Michael is 5′ 10″ if that gives you some perspective of how tall this plant has grown.

Here you can see the whole plant, and you might also notice that Michael didn’t get the supports up fast enough, so there is an “S” curve in the lower part of the stem. So theoretically this should be even taller.

Which is nuts.

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For some reason, I haven’t been able to get many good pictures of the flowers currently in bloom.

Part of that is because it’s been raining so much, but another part is that masses of flowers seem harder for me to photograph than a single flower.

Ah well.

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