September

During the transition from summer to autumn, berries take center stage. September is a good time to divide clumps of overgrown perennials and do lawn repairs.

Precipitation: Approximately 2 inches
Average precipitation: 3.7 inches

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses." -Abraham Lincoln

American holly 9/2/13

American holly 9/2/13

Winterberry 9/4/13

Winterberry 9/17/13

False Solomon's seal 9/2/13

False Solomon's seal 9/2/13

Chinese privet 9/4/13

Sedum 9/4/13

Sedum 9/17/13

Honesty (money plant) 9/4/13

 

Tree fungus 9/4/13

Lady fern 9/6/13

Hosta 9/6/13

Cotoneaster 9/6/13

Dogwood 9/6/13

 Wild daisy (wildflower) 9/6/13

Rose of Sharon 9/8/13

New England aster 9/18/13

Oak leaves beginning to turn 9/22/13

August

August is usually a sparse month for blooms, but adequate rain kept the garden green this year. The lawn never turned yellow and continued to grow throughout the summer, and it seemed like every shrub and hedge needed lots of cutting back this month.

Precipitation: Approximately 3 inches
Average precipitation: 3.8 inches

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." -Mahatma Gandhi 

Morning glory (annual) 8/12/13

Rose 8/12/13

Unidentified (wildflower) 8/12/13

Jerusalem artichoke 8/25/13

July

Midsummer is here, and all is well with the world in July. Just as long as we keep up with the mowing and weeding, and weeding, and weeding. The gloriosa daisies begin their long blooming season.

Precipitation: Approximately 1.5 inches
Average precipitation: 3.1 inches

"What is a weed? A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lily 7/1/13

Honesty (money plant) (biennial wildflower) 7/1/13

A visitor 7/1/13

 

Hosta 7/1/13

False Solomon's seal 7/1/13

Ladybells (wildflower) 7/1/13

Daylily 7/3/13

Aster 7/3/13

Spiderwort 7/6/13

Trumpet vine 7/3/13

Gloriosa daisy 7/3/13

Gloriosa daisy 7/6/13

Rose 7/10/13

Buddelia (butterfly bush) 7/21/13

Tigerlily 7/24/13

Tigerlily 7/19/13

June

June is probably the nicest month in our garden, as long as we can remember to water when needed. The annuals and irises look great, and the roses have begun to bloom.

Precipitation: Approximately 10 inches
Average precipitation: 3.1 inches

"In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day.  No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them." -Aldo Leopold

Yellow liatris 6/5/13

Iris 6/5/13

Annuals 6/5/13

Feverfew (wildflower) 6/9/13

Mock bishop weed (wildflower) 6/9/13

Yellow primrose (wildflower) 6/14/13

Winterberry 6/14/13

Buddleia (butterfly bush) 6/14/13

Rose 6/14/13

Rose 6/14/13

Euonymus 6/9/13

Pink spirea 6/23/13

Landscape 6/17/13

Orange daylily 6/23/13

Raspberry 6/30/13