The Weekly Bloom #5
A weekly photo series sharing glimpses of beauty from my garden to start the week.
These dwarf strawflowers are one of my favorites this season.
I've been harvesting the flowers before they fully bloom (to dry) because I read that they continue to bloom after cutting. But now that I've seen them looking so cute fully opened, I may have to leave some - the centers are matching the nasturtium!
The heat wave + a full day of heavy rain = lots more zinnia blooms! The polar bear zinnias are starting to take over this patch…it’s amazing to see which varieties are hardier. I had hoped the “fun” ones like senora or the zinderella peach zinnias would thrive, but they are struggling a bit.
The cactus dahlia I started from seed is in bloom - they are attracting all the bees with their open yellow centers.
The vibrant celosia are also loving the heat, they are starting to take off - these were winter-sown and survived the flood we had back in the spring. I have them planted along a shared fence line, hoping they’ll grow taller and block out some unsightly weeds.
Look at these yard long beans! They’re the only veggie growing in the garden at the moment, but I’m looking forward to sowing more veggie seeds for a fall harvest!
This week’s bouquet was gifted to a dear friend I hadn’t seen in a while, it’s always nice to share flowers from my garden. Lots of the usual suspects in this arrangement, but I must point out the tall lemongrass - I grew these from propagated stalks I purchased from an Asian supermarket. And then there’s the daisy fleabane that popped into the zinnia patch - they’re wildflowers, but I noticed one of the neighboring plots has lots growing so may have spread over from there!
I finally stopped fighting the morning glory that have been popping up on their own all over the plot - they are a prolific self-seeder so everyone in the community garden has some morning glory. I had been pulling them but since the sweet peas never really took off over the trellis arch, I let a few plants go and they are climbing!
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