Every Blooming THing, Early July 2021

Well, I actually had to cut the grass last week as after it turned brown during an extended drought, it had caught up quite well during the extended monsoon season we just had.  And, let me tell you, that grass/weed mix over the one line we use in our five line septic field was something else.  Took four passes to cut that mess down.

Right now, the mums are blooming their first bloom session (I have  to cut the blooms back in a few days in order to get that fall blast of color). 

The wild tall daisies are blooming.  Each one has anywhere between 50 and 100 tiny blooms on it.  (I don't actually know what they are called.)  Nor do I know what the pink or red flowers are that are blooming right now are called.

The daisies are blooming as are the tiger lilies, blue salvia, dianthus, potentilla and some spirea.

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GETTING READY TO BLOOM

hostas

purple cone flowers

blackeyed-Susans

daylilies

And, I have easily 100 of each, probably more.

Oh, yes.  The lovely Japanese beetles are back.  Just love those guys.

Getting Ready for the Big Bloom!!  --RoadFlower

Every Blooming THing, Early June 2021

We finally got a little rain last night which was badly needed as the grass is brown and I am getting really tired of watering everyday.  Plus, I am busy trimming bushes.  I can tell you this sincerely, I planted WAY TOO MANY bushes.  And that trimmer is mean.  My arms feel empty after I finish and then there is the trimmer's habit of eating cords.

Right now, I have several hundred white daisy plants blooming as well as probably twenty spirea that are about to bloom.  The wild tall purple phlox are on that last stages of bloom sadly.  I have quite a few different blue flowers blooming right now including lavender, blue salvia and two others I don't know their name.

The daylillies are budding out and I also have about 150 of them.  The dianthus are still blooming as well.  Peonies and clematis are blooming also.

Color All the Time, You Know.  --RoadDogFlower

Every Blooming THing, Late July: RoadDog's Achin' Acre

I always feel my flowers are at their height of color here at the end of July when four major flower groups start blooming.

Right now, some 300 black-eyed Susans, 200 purple coneflowers, 200 tall phlox and 150 daylilies are blooming.  Those figures, of course, are estimates, but probably close.  I have done a real lot of transplanting.  Plus, my hostas are blooming their blue spikes and I probably have 150 of then as well.

I am still trimming bushes (and I really planted too many of them) and also weeding, pulling up and cutting down spent flowers and keeping up with the grass and all that is really keeping me busy when it is not too hot  and humid outside.  We are one of the highest spots in the state of Illinois and usually get a whole lot of breeze, but not so much lately.  Plus, our temps have been running in the 90s for much of the last three weeks.

This has all cut down on my working outside.  Who'd have known that when you get older, yardwork is so much harder?

Plus, I just read that growing a lot of corn raises the humidity.  And, we are surrounded by farmland with mostly corn being grown on it.

Thinking of changing the name of my yard to RoadDog's Achin' Acre.

Ohh, My Aching Back.  --RoadSore

Every Blooming THing-- Early July 2020; Yard's Ablaze, Man

I took a walk around the house to make sure I got a list of all the flowers blooming right now.

clematis

wild daisies  (several hundred of them)

an orange perennial

some mums that weren't cut back

stella d'oro daylillies

Small, medium and tall daisies

spirea

bee balm

some dianthus

a blue perennial on a stalk

tiger lilies

lavender

Missouri primrose

some tall phlox

marguerittes

tickweed

blue salvia 

something with red flowers

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ABOUT TO BLOOM

daylilies

Asiatic daylilies

black-eyed Susans--  several hundred

purple cone flowers--  around a hundred

hostas

a pink perennial--  I have several hundred of them.

So, the Yard Is Ablaze With Color Right Now And Will Continue To be For Awhile.  --RoadFlower

 FOX HUNTING:  "Fox on the Run" was a 1974 hit song for which band?  

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