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Outside the bank this morning, at last I got a photo of hostas.
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They are a lovely shape and colour, but my early attempt to grow some in Washington State was discouraged as my plants were swiftly devoured by voracious slugs.
Perhaps New York slugs are less aggressive. They are certainly smaller than the monsters I had in my West Coast garden.
Next year maybe I should try again?
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A very humid morning provided a few other images.
The daily gladdie.
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Cone flower.
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Coreopsis.
A perfectly nice flower though I dislike the combination of yellow and red.
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In Nature I can mostly accept it, but my father once bought some calceolarias for his patio and I found myself repulsed by them, though I’ve never been able to work out why.
Something to do with the shape. Looking at them disturbs me.
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Our first sunflower was perfectly acceptable, though it is more orange than red in any case.
Birds love these.
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The bank had a nice display of phlox.
My own are very sad this year.
I do have those black-eyed Susans which seem indestructible and once in bloom they keep going till first frost.
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In the absence of frost,
photos of dew will do.
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It highlights the overnight weaving of spiderwebs.
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This morning a new gladiola bloomed.
Very fancy!
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When it comes right down to it, though, I think I prefer this little flower that came unbidden to my garden.
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Black mustard.
Basically – a weed.
As the old saying goes, “Weeds are just flowers in the wrong place”. I confess that I killed many slugs and snails whilst trying to save the Hostas in my london patio garden. But they killed the lovely plants anyway.
Best wishes, Pete.
Thank you, Carolyn, for the beautiful photos of flowers, which I love in any colour combination and shape!
Joanna
Spectacular pictures, especially the spiderweb!
Deer love hostas. Great flower pics. Thanks.
Our smoke situation in NYC seems to hve cleared for now. Hope yours has too.
We seem to have far more spider webs this year than I have ever seen before. I have no idea why!
The flowers in your post look so joyful and vivid – the gladiola is my favourite. I often think I take photos of flowers and when I search for them on ‘Plantnet’ on the internet, I find out they are actually weed … now, who said weed can’t also be flowers?
What’s it all mean, Mr. Natural? There’s no weed in here…😎