Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Gardens
The gardens of New England are a bit tired as we go into August. Most of my flowers are early summer flowers. They used to bloom in May and June, but recently they bloom in late June and July. Right now, it just looks awful! The Daylilies are gone, the roses are pretty, but there aren’t a lot of them.
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It always seems sad to me when the garden tires because it signals the end of (or nearly the end of) summer. While I love autumn and autumnal colours, there’s something truly special and wonderful about summer gardens. Spring’s promise is so exciting but the reality is exquisite.
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Our pretty much craps out in the middle of summer. As July ends, so do our flowers. There is more than a month left, but the garden is kerflooey.
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Our are starting to. We had a late start as did the flowers, so they may last longer…? she said hopefully. lol
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If those are all flowers you get to enjoy regularly (in your own garden or at the doctor’s office), then you have beauty all around. Lucky you!
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Sadly, by August, it doesn’t look like that anymore. By August, the daylilies are dead and the roses are just a few stragglers and the last of the spring flowers are gone for the year. It would be nice if they would last a few weeks longer and we do have other flowers coming up in late September, the ‘fall’ crowd. But August is pretty dull.
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This is eye-watering, I’m a bit jealous – my ‘garden’ looks like a prairie after a fire, brown, wilted, AGAIN I lost hydrangeas to the hot dry weather. They are also totally unsuitably planted where the sun shines on them, but if they continue to die at that rate, there will soon be nothing to worry about. Maybe the future new owner will do something serious about them.
My day lilies have bloomed, a short time of exuberant joy and colours, last week I’ve pulled up the stems and dust-dry leaves, their beds look as fields do after the harvest.
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We chopped down ours, leaving the root of course. They are gone for the year. We might get a few more Rhododendrons, but that’s pretty much “it.” In essence, our looks like crap too. I don’t take the pictures when it looks bad. Does anyone?
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I think it looks wonderful!
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It did. It only lasts a bit more than a month and then, poof! But for that month, it’s glorious.
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that’s how I feel about our azalea bushes. they look really nice for two weeks, and then not so nice the rest of the year
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Well, yeah. Ours too. And the Rhododenrons are pretty dreary except when they are intermittently in bloom … and dead daylilies aren’t really lovely. But that’s what comes with summer. It blooms, then it dies.
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I really like your New England garden photos. Thanks Marilyn 😀
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The glory of July 😀 It’s our “good” month.
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That is so uplifting, Marilyn, to wake up and gaze upon that….lovely.
Leslie
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I wish I could see it from the house. It’s just off-angle so I can see a piece of it, but most of it, you have to be out in the driveway to really see it.
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Beautiful gardens Marilyn! What an array of colors and textures
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I know. I wish they would last longer.
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A riot of colour 🙂 Quite a few of my flowers are past their best now as August proceeds.
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Me too. All the Daylilies and most of the roses.
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So beautiful. These are all of your garden? Stunning.
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Most are my gardens. A few are the garden by my doctor’s office and the other is the wildflower garden at River Bend. So about 85% mine (more or less).
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I love a wild garden the best…These are gorgeous.
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