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s impressions and reflections about home and garden family and flowers seasons and nature not much blooming deer resting in my backyard after two weeks of gray cloudy weather and rain we finally saw the sun yesterday the deer did not mind resting in the wet grass when the sun returned yesterday so did the cool fall weather it was 45 degrees here yesterday morning and this morning we turned the heat on salvia my three salvia plants are still blooming but are getting scraggily the deer chomped on all the liriope plants so their flowers are gone russian sage the russian sage bushes are the only other plants in bloom but are winding down deck flowers when the sun came out yesterday i took a photo of the mums and pansies i planted two weeks ago it was the first time i had seen them in the sun i have been watching my yuletide camellias that were so badly damaged in the so called snowcrete we had last winter they seem to have buds so i think they will be okay we ll see how they bloom in the november december time frame posted by l ambler no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 25 years twin towers new york has it been 25 years since america was attacked on september 11 2001 it doesn t seem that long ago to me 2 753 people died in new york as a result of the attack pentagon arlington virginia at that time i lived near the pentagon where three of our neighbors died that attack so close to where i lived stayed with me for a long time 189 people died at the pentagon shanksville pennsylvania this is a photo from the national parks service website of the field of impact of the fourth plane that was brought down by the passengers so that it would not destroy another building the park service website calls this a common field one day a field of honor forever in the far distance on the right you can barely see a speck that speck is a huge boulder that marks the point of impact of the plane 40 people died at shanksville a rose for remembrance there were special and solemn remembrances at all three memorials today marking the 25th anniversary of the attack everyone that helped that day was remembered including first responders like emts firefighters doctors nurses ordinary citizens and our canadian friends who allowed our planes to land there and took care of the passengers as the petals of the rose unfold in stages it mirrors how our memories surface little by little posted by l ambler no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest a hint of fall weeping cherry trees although it is still august the weeping cherry trees in the yard are always the first trees whose leaves turn color we have had cooler weather these past two weeks also because the the strong el nino in the pacific it may be the cause of so many cloudy days and downpours this month russian sage the only plants that are doing well this summer are the russian sage bushes all the rest of the blooms on the perennials are sparse marigolds some of the annuals in pots on my deck are doing well like these marigolds dwarf peppers i always put dwarf peppers in one of my deck pots i like their shape and brightness pink calibrachoa this pot of pink calibrachoa was full of blooms but now seems to be winding down i have a few more pots of calibrachoa on the deck and the heavy downpours we have been having several days a week have beaten the blooms down and as soon as they try to recover they are hit with another downpour resting deer i was out in the back yard a few days ago taking photos of the russian sage bushes when i looked up and saw a resting deer watching me they occasionally rest in the yard sometimes two or three of them at a time posted by l ambler no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest august already heliopsis although it s august now you wouldn t know it by looking at my flower gardens this heliopsis or false sunflower is just now coming into bloom in normal year the heliopsis plants would be in full bloom by the first of july many plants are behind normal bloom time monarda i have three monarda or bee balm plants that just now come into bloom when normally they start in june since it has been somewhat dry here they have escaped having powdery mildew this year japanese anemones these are one of the few that plants are blooming right on time this year i think the brutal prolonged winter and the late freeze in spring altered a lot of the plants blooming schedules also it has been so gray here day after day with little rain in june and july which probably pushed back bloom time crepe myrtle tree the crepe myrtle tree next to our deck is blooming away it lost all of it s leaves that turned brown and died after the late spring frost it grew all new leaves and is now blossoming undeterred posted by l ambler no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest a week at the beach sunset on kiawah island every summer our family spends a week at the beach on kiawah island south carolina it is uncrowded with all natural vegetation there are no high rise hotels just some homes you can rent here are a few photos i took of the island storm clouds three afternoons while we were there storm clouds suddenly headed for the beach we had to scramble to pack up and get off the beach it was time for a late lunch anyway bocce ball because there are no crowds there are several activities that people do on the beach like bocce ball kite flying volley ball bike riding jogging or just walking and looking for shells high tide everyone keeps track of the tides here for the best time to be on the beach for the activities they want to do bike path there are several bike paths that traverse the 10 mile long island many people bike to get to different parts of the island they want to visit when my children were younger they rode all over the island on bikes posted by l ambler no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest a sparse may yellow rose this is one of two miniature rose bushes brought at the grocery store a couple of years ago that i planted in the yard the deer don t usually come by this area but this year right after this first bloom they ate it and all the buds on both bushes pink astilbe not many pink astilbe plants made it through one of our coldest winters this year the white astilbe plants never showed up we had cold weather in the 30 s at night right up until the first of june i could not believe we had to turn the heat on some nights the last week of may salvia the salvia bloomed right on time in may red hot poker one of three red hot poker plants have bloomed the other two don t look like they are going to bloom many trees and plants are finally recovering from the late frost that turned their leaves brown the crape myrtle tree has grown all new green leaves as well as the three sycamore trees the camellias the cotoneaster plants although the cotoneaster plants had no flowers this spring posted by l ambler no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest a seesaw spring catmint there are several catmint plants in the front yard that have just started to bloom the weather has been up and down here all month unseasonably cool the first 17 days of may we had a night in the high 30 s last week and a day where it did not get out of the 50 s and now we are finally enjoying some heat for three days in the 90 s and then back down in the 50 s in two days spirea bush several pink spirea bushes are just staring to bloom many plants are late because of the cool cloudy weather the first three weeks of may the freeze that killed the crape myrtle tree leaves are just now starting to recover leaves on three large sycamore trees that were killed in the freeze are now recovering also peony this is one of three red peony bushes that finally had flowers there is one yellow peony bush that was severely damaged in the freeze that is just recovering and has no blossoms yet so many plants were damaged the cotoneaster ground cover the privet bushes the yuletide camellias we ll see how they turn out blueberries the highbush blueberry bushes have a few berries coming samaritan jo clematis this clematis vine is behind schedule and just opened three flowers but has several buds dogwood three dogwood trees in the yard are finally in bloom many plants are damaged or late usually by this time in may the temps average 75 to 85 but not this year i am longing for warm sunny summer days posted by l ambler no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me l ambler virginia united states i have been an amateur gardener for many years i originally started with vegetable gardening but moved on to include flower gardening when i realized that flowers bring an abundance of beauty and joy into my life i have gardened in illinois 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