Spiritual Direction

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

August Garden - A Pictorial

 This is what happens when the plants design the garden display.

Hydrangea ‘Confetti’ - One of the few panicle hydrangeas that have loads of fertile flowers for pollinators.

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Here with a second one whose name I don’t remember

   Cardinal flower, skullcap and blooming hostas in the back garden

Joe-pye, garden phlox, orange coneflower and heliopsis along the house

 
From a different angle

Looking across the pond, which is barely visible

Sunflowers growing taller than I anticipated

Spider flowers bordering the vegetable garden - deer don’t touch them. Neither do groundhogs.

 Spider flowers, a favorite with bees

Zinnias ‘Queeny Lime’ mix, favorites of goldfinches who eat the petals, hummingbirds, butterflies and bees

Zinnias ‘Benary Giants’ living up to their name

Shared with much gratitude for such a place to be.

3 comments:

  1. So lovely, Ann! Thank you for sharing your garden beauty for all of us to enjoy!

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  2. A lovely garden stroll without the heat! Thank you! I seriously tried planting flowers this year. Someone ate all of my tender shoots of sunflowers. Some animal came and bit off all of my flowers on my new planting and left them lying around the base of the plant. Well, that was rude! The plant seemed “stunned” after that and went dormant. One plant has lived and the one mailbox plant has barely hung on, but has not grown much. On an up note though Bekah has sent us lovely garden produce!! She is her Mother’s daughter for sure! Thanks again, Barb

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