Monday

Did some shopping earlier then home to plant some vegetables. Ordered them and hand delivered. Was concerned about how some look and know they won't make it. Later notified by company that some were damaged from over watering of their sprinkler system. Glad they spoke up and will probably send more plant starts. Today I planted Swiss chard, carrots, beets, collard greens, kale, sage, thyme, and dill. I'm taking a change with not a lot of sun but soon the canopy of trees will have falling leaves. It's recommended that carrots and beets be direct sown. I took a chance. 

My elephant ear is lovely this summer. Until frost and it goes dormant. Then back to the basement until spring.

Oak leaf hydrangea purchased yesterday. Doesn't look pretty but I think I've found a hydrangea that'll survive in the yard. Planted another earlier in the summer and it's doing well planted in the ground. 

Thyme, sage, chives, and dill.

Sage and my 3rd year chives. I need to cut and add them to some salad.

Thyme

When will the cardinal flower be planted? Learned that impatiens love water. They've been sitting in a tray of rain water for months due to no holes in the tray. They've thrived and bloomed the whole time. I now know how much cardinal flower loves water and neither have rotted. Maybe I shouldn't buy anymore cardinal flower. It may end up like the ligularia planted earlier this summer until it went to sleep. Hopefully it's sleeping due to heat and lack of water.

Insects are suddenly hungry and have started eating the native ginger and hosta. I may let them continue. As always I didn't water like I'd hoped to and many perennials went to sleep before they should have. Hopefully they'll return in the spring before the tree canopy leafs out. I'm working on a rain barrow for the yard. That should help. I may mulch the beds, clean up perennials like phlox that has powdery mildew, and some lilies that were damaged in a storm and didn't bloom. Trying not to mulch though until the leaves fall. This year I'm planning on shredding the leaves and placing them in the flower bed to add organic matter to the soil.

Not the best pictures today. Need to rake the yard and pick up fallen twigs from the trees that fell during the storm a couple of weeks ago.

Covered to hopefully protect the veggies from the cabbage butter fly and carrot fly.

Couldn't work out in the yard without this for mosquitoes.

Different variety of sunflower opened. It's taller and a pretty girl. What a beautiful pose. Just for me.

Jenny continues to grow.

Gloriosa liliy continues to bloom beautifully.

Sunflowers are so beautiful. The blooms have drawn tons of different bees and birds this summer. I've seen a few butterflies but not as many as hoped for. Can be missing them because when I see them they're usually flying away.