Some Thoughts

Summery, 80s, still humid.

I like the way the plumbago towers are working.  The light blue is nice.  Maybe instead of replacing these with clematis on iron tuteurs, I should just keep the plumbago (it can winter over in pots on the porch?)

The Rose of Sharon is blooming, but I thought after 3 years it would have more height.  Instead it seems to be filling out in a shrubbier form.  I want it to rise high enough to fill part of the dining room window, and it just barely peeks into the corner now.

From the back of the Birch Garden.  The Orange Dream Japanese maple is coloring.  The agastache keeps going all summer.

I like how the small petunia 'Baby Duck' has filled in.  And the new black eyed Susans (not Goldsturm, these replacements are fulgida var. fulgida).

 

And the smokebush has returned to its translucent reddish color, not so brown looking as it was in the high heat earlier in the summer.

And the panicle hydrangeas are blooming.