In bloom mid July, photos from our garden

I have been busy playing catch-up after a great trip last weekend to Buffalo to meet up with other garden bloggers. Upon coming home, we had to get the garden ready for two back-to-back bus tours. So here — better late than never — is my contribution to Garden Bloggers Bloom Day.

When people come to visit our garden we are always asked how we get our agapanthus to bloom. The plants were originally grown by my husband John from seed. In subsequent years we’ve potted them up to bigger sized pots — and the plants are now so big we can hardly lift the pots. Agapanthus merits its own separate blog post, but for now I’ll just say that all we do with them is water them regularly and give them flowering plant fertilizer at least twice a month.

We have this patch of Eupatorium growing in a ditch that leads to our natural pond. The plants came from seed we collected along the creek that flows across a corner of our property. What strikes me is that this year they seem to be in bloom earlier than normal.

Weather notes: We’ve been having a hot and humid July, but fortunately there has been rain — thundershowers have been both regular and plentiful. So all is lush, and for now the country garden and its minder are contented. But the moisture has brought on a fresh crop of weeds that must be dealt with. So it goes — it’s a gardener’s life.

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