These photos are from about a week ago. The Rudbeckia are blooming and in spite of all the complaining I did about them earlier, they are now on my favorite flowers list.
They bloom no matter what the weather...heat, drout, neglect...they bloom.
The Butterfly Bush at the back of the trellis is slow to get going this year. We had had more butterflies this year than I have ever seen here. Is this just a good year for them?
Also, on the left of the trellis is a Clematis. I always thought is was too dry when it turned brown like that but I recently read it's from a fungal infection. About the only way to stop it is to relocate it, so I will do that late this fall.
From the side...
That's Joe Pye Weed...also one of my favorites...tall enough to show up in the back.
I didn't sow any Zinnia seeds this year. They all came up from seeds that last year's plants dropped
I just let them grow wherever they sprouted. The butterlies love them.
Puss had fresh water in her dish but she prefers drinking birdie flavored water.
This is the view looking left just outside the back door.
A lot of sedum, creeping thyme, purple heart vine and artemesia...and zinnias
This week everything isn't looking so good. I have been trying to water all plants in reach of the hose - and I have been putting my new watering can to good use, carrying water to some of the younger or not so hearty plants and shrubs.
The grass, I ignore and it is becoming parched and brown.
Someone needs to do a rain-dance!
One day when it was really hot, my husband was going to the screen porch to get a drink from the fridge out there.
He walked out of the air conditioned house with a glass of ice in his hand.
He took a couple of steps, then "POP".....it was so hot that it cracked the cold glass!
That was a surprise. It seems like he would have done some kind of a rain dance right then.
