Late Summer in Michigan

Celebrating the season

Today we ’re in Nella ’s Michigan garden .

Usually myspring gardenis my deary . It ’s a lovely welcome to the new horticulture time of year after a dusty , hoar Michigan wintertime . This year I was rewarded with lush , full , late summer bloomsafter a summer so dry that we only foreshorten the lawn once in the month ofJune . I garden in a space that was totally shaded by overgrown trees when I first bought the sign of the zodiac . Twenty - seven years and 15 fewer tree later on , I have mostly fond shade . I retired last June , so this was my first gardening season when I could weave out to the garden at sunrise and putz around until mid - morning most days .

I went crazy onpotsthis year ! The final count on August 1 , front and back , was 26 ! That ’s a disk for me . Admittedly , some I bought specifically tofill in gapsbefore this year ’s neighborhood garden walk . Some are my every - year standard . Some I bought at the last of the season because I could n’t jib the sale damage . Would I do it again ? peradventure , but not all at once . It was a gradual matter as I saw a need for apotor I had plants but no situation for them in a bed .

belated summertime splendour includesconeflowers(Echinaceapurpurea , Zones 4–9 ) , tall phlox ( Phloxpaniculata , Zones 4–8 ) , and black - eyed Susan ( Rudbeckiafulgida , Zones 3–9 ) .

Bold foliage of a beaver bean ( Ricinuscommunis , Zones 9–11 or as an annual ) with pink turtlehead ( Cheloneobliqua , Zones 5–9 )

This container is filled with shadowiness - loving plants includingCaladium(Zones 8–10 or as a attender medulla ) and trailing creep Jenny ( Lysimachianummularia‘Aurea ’ , Zones 3–9 ) .

Panicle hydrangea(Hydrangeapaniculata , Zones 3–8 ) flower blushing pink as they age .

Pan , the god of athletic field , orchard , and wooded glen , greets Nella each break of the day when she launch the curtains . This year he has a treetop of variegatedfern .

Hostaandhydrangeaspill over onto a stone path .

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