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Today’s weather would have blessed any Summer’s day. It was warm and sunny, and Jackie and I raised a sweat as we continued weeding, planting, and lopping. I use ‘we’ loosely. I mainly tidied up after the real work. We transported the two full orange bags of cuttings to the dump, and later almost completely refilled one of them.
Clematises are now bursting out all over. The first two depicted here are Niobe and Passion Flower. I can’t name the others.
Roses like creamy golden Summer Time,
white Madame Alfred Carriere, and glowing pink Summer Wine clamber up structures in
the Rose Garden, over one corner of which Altissimo dances the tightrope.
while Compassion rewards us for clearing its space over
the Dead End Path.
Foxgloves
and geranium palmatums are beginning to prepare us for their annual profusion.
Diascas,
bidens,
and marguerites are just three of the plants carefully positioned in a variety of containers.
A Painted Lady who had definitely seen better days powdered her face in the erigeron pollen.
This evening we dined on spicy chicken kebabs, plain boiled rice, and plentiful salad. Jackie drank Hoegaarden and I drank Cabillero de Diablo, reserva cabernet sauvignon 2015.
Beautiful
Speechless
Thank you Zayla
Love the header picture of the painted lady in the erigeron flowers – two of my favourite things 🙂 The thing I most love about Jackie’s garden is that wherever the eye wanders there is something to arrest it. The rusty white painted birdcage grabbed my attention today and I had to biggify to inspect it. Is that dried grasses poking out the top? The tub of marguerites is looking lovely too, I planted one in the autumn and am hoping for a fine showing next summer – though at the rate I am progressing with my courtyard tidy up that might be all I have! 🙂
It’s the residue from whatever was in last year. Not yet planted up in this, Pauline. Very many thanks. Good luck with your marguerites.
I’d like to see the Altissimo dancing the tightrope and butterflies powdering their faces in your garden 🙂
Many thanks, Mary. We wish you could.
Those two lines caught my fancy, as well, Mary.
The garden’s looking lovely, Derrick!
Many thanks, Marina
The niobe clematis is wonderful! Madame Alfred Carriere is the only rose (and Iceberg) that I know by name! (But Foxglove, Derrick – not Hollyhock!!) Your garden is an absolute delight!
Thanks a lot, Bruce. I’m always doing that with foxgloves!
There’re poisonous anyway!
🙂
Luxuriant, and the Painted Lady retains enough beauty to make it worth her paying attention to her makeup!
The garden borders seem to be beautifully concealed by plants.
Very many thanks, Leslie
Lovely pictures – I’m now more conscious than ever that the year is passing me by. I think “we” is fair enough – without your clearing activities the garden would soon be knee deep in debris.
🙂 Many thanks, Quercus. May you catch up with the year soon.
Worse case scenario – I’m quite fond of autumn. 🙂
Beautiful clematis! I never had much luck with them. I enjoyed the photos.
Thanks very much, Maria
Wow! These are spectacular photos, Derrick. I feel as though I can reach out and touch each flower.
Thank you so much, Jill
Beautiful photos, Derrick. So much going on! I was wondering through the whole post what the Heck your title meant. LOL – You kept me hanging ’till the very end.
I like to live up to the title challenge, Jodie 🙂 Very many thanks
: )
Fabulous flowers. Your day in the garden and at the dump sounds perfect.
Many thanks, Lisa. Jackie actually saw some really good pots and the dump and decided she already had enough! How’s that for a first?
People at the dump can be unpredictable…
I didn’t need the very catchy title to launch myself into your flowery posts, but this did stop my breath:
A Painted Lady who had definitely seen better days powdered her face in the erigeron pollen.
I’m pleased, Uma. Thank you very much
I wanted to call my youngest daughter Marguerite but it was vetoed (can’t remember now and it doesn’t matter … didn’t matter from the moment she arrived)) but she has always been known as Daisy-Flower even thought it isn’t her name. Marguerites in all their lovely incarnations are ever my favourite of favourites. 😊
Thanks very much, Osyth. You got your way with the name after all 🙂
My father encouraged lateral thinking 🙂
What a lovely expression! I was initially on the watch out for a lady before I finally realised you were talking about a butterfly 😀
Beautiful photography as usual 🙂
Very many thanks, Geetha.
Welcome Derrick 🙂
Gorgeous, Derrick.
Thanks very much, Cynthia
The gardens are lovely, Derrick and Jackie. I love the clematises! We have a deep purple one here I had to move this spring. It is finally coming back from the roots.
Well done for successfully transplanting a clematis. Not easy, Lavinia. Thank you.
It’s been moved twice now, and has proved to be a tough one. 🙂
I like the foxgloves and the Compassion rose. 🙂
The pictures of the arches and the trellises are very graceful and elegant. Thanks for the shares.
Thanks very much, Robin
A dead end path and a painted lady to add life, nicely done! 🙂
Many thanks, Brian