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Thursday, August 9, 2018
Its a Gourd.......
The mystery is over and the gourd has shown itself. I didn’t have gourds last year so it must be a leftover from someone else’s planting season. I haven’t grown gourds for years so this will be a fun thing to harvest. If I am confused and it is a squash, I will be happy.
While out in the backyard gardens this morning I watched my one monarch butterfly soaring around in among the flowers. I did notice that I do have a caterpillar (monarch) in the front yard on the Hummingbird Weed plant. I didn’t get it photographed but will work on that soon. Maybe it will be a cocoon soon.
There are a lot of last blooms out in my garden right now There are no more buds on this daylily. I saw the last large yellow daylily bloom yesterday.
I got a shot of it and today I broke off the spent bloom. The foliage will hang in there for the rest of the season and that is a good one to see. I noticed that my surprise lilies were blooming when I was at the old place on Tuesday.
The one phlox that came from the old place did root in and bloomed for me. I have bought three new ones but these are the old fashion ones that get handed down from person to person. I had a good stand of them at the old place for 20 years or more. A cottage garden wouldn’t be complete with out lots of phlox blooming in August.
I was able to shoot a lot of photos this morning. There were a lot of these morning glories in bloom today. They go into decline by afternoon so I had to get out early to catch them. I am awaiting the blooms of the morning glories that I planted this year. These are volunteer from the old owners doing.
Not too much that I want to do today so I am picking up odd jobs around the place.
Our dormant grass has the weeds growing up like it is an old cornfield, which is was. I did get some pulling done today and there are a few still out there. Thanks for stopping by today.
I got some hibiscus seeds from a plant around by the mail box.
ReplyDeleteI will wait and plant them next year. The wild morning glory is
back on the fence, the gardener missed getting it pulled up last year.
I and rooting for it this year to bloom.