The Garden

 

Hi! Nothing says July like daylilies along the roadsides and masses of blue hydrangeas everywhere.

Where I grew up in Illinois, the cornfield ditches were always filled with the gone-wild lilies and sky blue chicory. Oh, I’d be so happy to be home, from college, from NYC career. My dream for the future was to find and restore a small old farmhouse, to own a small shop---my wares an imagined combo of handmade to order children’s clothes, home goods, quilts, quilt fabric, classes. I'd finish my MFA degree, and get a PhD in quilt studies, maybe? I’d meet a nice local boy, we’d have a veggie garden and four little blond girls. And a pug. 

At least I got the pug! (and wonderful children)

 

Back here in the real world....

I'm so pleased with my seeds' results. The Hudson Valley seeds have been amazing--they are new to me.

And Botanical Interests seeds are a wonderful standby, always do well.

Even my sweet peas have grown and are blooming beautifully.

Lots of marigolds, many kinds, and pink zinnias. Cheddar and double pink! How perfectly "lizzy" is this. [Mazurkas Zinnias, see above]

And my Lime Queen zinnies are profuse and GREEN. They're so hard to grow.

The cosmos are so pretty, multicolored, with their fragile fernlike leaves. Cosmos is hard to grow here, but doing well this year in their own pots.

I was soooo proud of my coreopsis.  

They were planted then covered accidentally, or these are old seeds in my only remaining big wildflower pot? They grew like, well, weeds. And their cheery school bus yellow faces smile at me each morning.

We had a big storm the other night, with 50 mph gusts of unexpected wind. I found the corries, flattened and sad the next day. Some I had to clip off, 

The rest I tied up to an old repurposed broom handle I found in the laundry closet. It's ugly!

But seems to have saved them. Today I added the glass chicky! But must attach it better.

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A word about the dandelion clock/ seedhead garden lights i was so excited about. The storm wrecked them too, they had to be discarded. Sure, only $14.oo on Amazon.. But only a month? hmmmm. I do miss them.

Have a good weekend!

love

lizzy

gone to the beach...