Every Blooming THing: Early August

I'm getting ready to go out and cut the grass again. I never remember an August where I've had to cut the grass so often.

The poor crabapple trees are really hurting. Two of them are almost without leaves as we have some sort of fungus attacking them after the really wet spring we had. This is the second year in a row. The mountain ashes are getting their orange berries.

The purple coneflowers are almost gone and the black-eyes susans in the front or getting played out. The ones in the back yard bloomed later and are still going strong.

The mums are quite colorful already with many more blooms to come. I have some sort of plant that has red feathery flowers that are looking good right now. They spread easily and provide quite a blast of color.

The two Japanese lilacs are starting to drop a few leaves. Guess fall is on its way.

Love My Yard. --RoadDog


UNIVERSAL TRUTH: Plastic or paper, it doesn't matter. Those two-liter pop bottles will still find a way to break the bag and roll for freedom.