The bed, a small triangle in front of the new house, gets a couple hours of sun at midday. I put four big leaf asters, Aster macrophyllus, at the back in the shadiest part of the bed. Four foxgloves, Digitalis purpurea, two ‘Candy Mountain’ and two ‘Snowy Mountain’ went in the middle of the bed. A garden heliotrope, Valeriana officinalis went in front for the most sun, and a meadow anemone, Anenome canadensis, is also hiding in the shade.
That is probably the last planting I will do this summer. At the end of the summer the nurseries all have sales. It’s very tempting to get and plant cheap stuff, but late season perennials usually don’t survive the winters here. Last August I planted 22 perennials in various places, and only seven popped up in the spring—not a high enough Planting Average.
Erin and Megan headed off to Boston this morning after their Mt. Moosilauke adventure yesterday.
New blooms: monarda, delphinium, ‘purple rain’ salvia, catmint.
Evening primrose opens at night and is done by the next noon, so it must have some nocturnal pollinator. It is a biennial that seeds itself, like hollyhocks. These two are just opening.
One of the early blooming hostas between two other, different hostas.
Pastel-hued summer azalea.
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