It may be high summer to us, but to the day lilies, the end is near. There will be a few more blooms for another few weeks, but high season is over. The best of the garden is done.
It’s the end of the second round of roses too. There will be stragglers, but the roses look weary. They are ready to sleep.
Daffodils are a distant memory as are the lilacs, columbine, Solomon Seal. The daisies are still with us, though.
I don’t know how many of our mums made it through winter. They won’t begin to show themselves, if they are alive, for a few more weeks. August is a dull time for flowers, the month between summer and autumn blooming.
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I noticed a yard with a couple of lilies left yesterday. They were in the shade. 😀 Beautiful photos.
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They don’t live nearly long enough. We got a few good weeks out of them this year. Almost a month. That was better than usual.
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Nice photos. I find the flowers look so sad when they start to die off. It seems to happen so fast. We are now starting to see some blossoms again. Yesterday was like spring but we had a quick storm pass through last night. So I would imagine that they have been ruined
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Yes, it seems to happen in just a few hours. I have learned to accept it, but I still don’t like it.
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I have a lot of day lilies and they do remind you of how fleeting life is – here today gone tomorrow. 🙂 I was at a Home Depot over the weekend, and they were selling fall mums. Do we have to start a season months ahead of time? I’m sure the next time I go to the store, the holiday decorations will be out. Enough already. 🙂
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I think this is a good time to plant mums. You get two bloomings if you plant in August. If you don’t get early snow, you’ll get that second blooming in October when everything else is gone.
As for Christmas decorations — do they take them down? I thought they were permanent, full time on display.
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You said the four letter word that begins with ‘s’, shame on you. LOL And, no, I think they just put them off to the side.
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Oops. I didn’t mean to say it. I hope Garry doesn’t see it. He doesn’t like that word, not one little bit.
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Things are slowing down in our garden too. But – the tomatoes are almost ready.
Leslie
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I await the neighbor’s tomatoes. We always get their surplus!
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Good move!
Leslie
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We are having a floral season though constant showers are going to spoil the show. It is going to be a glorious end for lilies. I liked the fraying flowers.
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I always feel sad for them. They have such a short — but beautiful — life 🙂
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The lilies, the roses, and the Red Sox….
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Now, now. They won a game. Two in three days. Whupped Detroit. That’s something.
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And the geological difference, Marilyn, between your garden and mine is as much about how high we are as it is about that little bit further north. My garden has just now hit full stride with the daylilies, the roses fared poorly this year but the grapevine (an old Fox Grape that i rescued from the woods behind the house) is now attempting to strangle the nearby apple tree, and the bee balm is in the hard blooming stage as is the clematis..
And if I had chrysanthemums it would be only because I had brought them in for the winter last fall. Ours rarely survive outside overwinter, nor do the butterfly bushes have more than one winter in them. Geography, geography, geography. =)
There’s more poignancy in a fading New England garden than ever in the fall leaves
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The wild grapevine is strangling everything. It is taking on the oak trees — and winning. How it made it from the back woods out to the front garden, I don’t know, but I think next year, there will be nothing but wild grape vine.
Our winters were not always quite this intense, but now, I’ll be surprised if anything survived to bloom in the fall. Not as much difference in our geography as there used to be.
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The time goes by so fast but the flowers are still very pretty!
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Thank you. Yes, flowers add needed colors to our rock and root world. Otherwise, it would be just green this time of year … except for the purple violets and yellow dandelions in the early spring.
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Ah, makes me sad. We have no down season unless the cutter ants take over, which they did for most of this year. They only affect vines and trees, though, not flowers. I get lazy and don’t go out at night to wage wars. The times i have, I feel a bit guilty–like an insect Hitler! Lately I’ve been using oatmeal in place of the pellets that seem to draw the moisture out of their bodies. Perhaps no better for them as i think it swells and makes them explode, but at least i don’t witness it. Isn’t nature cruel? We, too, as part of it…to put leaves over the life of a creature for whom they are only food.
Okay, now want to say I love your picture with the beware of dog sign…idyllic. Is that dangerous dog your sweet Scottie?
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Yes. Bonnie the bold. And the other three.
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You mean you outnumber me dogwise? Any cats?
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No felines. It isn’t safe to let them out, but because of the doggy door, impossible to keep them in. Too many predators.
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Sweet, adorable and gentle Bonnie Annie Laurie..
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With that great mischievous grin …
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It gives me hope. If your summer is on its last legs, then maybe our winter is too. 🙂
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It’s all about latitude. A little bit south and summer’s just gaining momentum.
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