I can't get over what a beautiful month August is in the garden. June was so depressing, gloomy and the garden totally pooped out, with nothing going on after the knockout roses went by. Daylilies were eaten, the annuals looked perpetually stunted.
Now, in August, all is exploding and the garden never looked better.
I deadheaded plants and they are reblooming: the ornamental basil in the pot on the deck. The orange butterfly weed, the nasturtiums in pots, all in a second flush. The coreopsis. The cranesbill has never looked fuller and bloomier.
Sage, both the Lady in Red and the newly purchased black & blue sage, are blooming wildly and the hummers love them. Lobelia, both the red and the Ruby Slippers are gorgeous.
The annuals -- zinnias, marigolds, angelonias, etc. -- are now lush, the plubago blooming like crazy. It all looks so good, and the grass is green from all the cool wet weather this month. An explosion of August, not the tired dry month I always think of.
Hummers, butterflies and bees everywhere. Everything is looking just the way it should! And in the midst of everything looking so good, I am off to Santa Fe for a week on Friday.
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