It has been an incredible summer in Cleveland. It has been warm and sunny with just enough rainy days to facilitate my not having to water! My plants are loving it, and growing at such a speed I can’t keep up with them.
We’re enjoying strawberries and peas, and I cut daisies and roses to take to a friend who is the hospital yesterday. Isn’t it wonderful to be able to harvest flowers from ones own yard to give away!
At times I look enviably at those already full grown pots you can buy at the garden centers- or that I see hanging in other peoples gardens. Oh how I wish I could afford to buy my plants full size. But do I? There is such enjoyment in watching plants grow- especially from nearly dead to verdantly healthy!
Foxglove
Daisies. Last year when I was buying seeds for the first time ever, I wasn’t really aware of the fact that I should choose a variety that best fit my space. I didn’t think about the fact that there are dozens of varieties of daisies. Some bloom in late spring, some in the summer. Some are leggy and 3 feet tall (uhhum mine.) and others are short and compact. Well, without this forsight I bought the first daisies I saw- which were of the gigantic variety. Which actually, providing that I planted them in the back of my bed, works. Except that it also means that they flop over and need to be tied back. Oh well. I have some short compact varieties in the back that I can split next year if I need to!
