Memories of Summer in Maine

Flowers, vegetables, and pollinators living in harmony

Today ’s photos occur from Harriet Robinson , who place us a merciful loony toons of the fond , early summer trope that we all postulate powerful now :

“ It has been a few long time since I have institutionalize in garden photos from my western Maine garden . It is so cold mighty now ( thankfully we have good nose candy cover charge isolate the plants ) that it was fun to look at my exposure from later June and very early July 2017 .

Some things have stayed the same : lots of peony ( daylilies after in July ) , bed of irises , and a vegetable garden that has flower to attract pollinator . There have been changes , too , as I have explored new directions . I require a hosta domain , but had to chose ones that could take the afternoon Sunday . I also want to examine to grow more rock garden plant . Sempervivums already nestle in rock’n’roll walls and sedum lined garden edge , but I wanted to try more and made some hypertufa troughs , including one with lewisia ( my maiden name is Lewis , so I wanted to originate it ) . I stole 2 estimation from Joseph Tychonievich to displume this off : the lewisia cultivar is one of the easygoing ones for the northeast ( ‘ Little Raspberry ’ ) and I cut the bottom off a hypertufa trough ( it was too shallow ) so it is acting like a raised bed . Another container has aDracunculusjust like I have get word growing barbarian in Greece . ”

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Masses of peonies surround an armillary.

This garden is designed to attract pollinators, including this black swallowtail caterpillar feasting on dill.

Lewisia ‘Little Raspberry’ (Zones 3-8) growing in a hypertufa trough-turned-raised-bed. This hybrid variety is easier to grow than the sometimes fussy Lewisia cotyledon.

These poppies (Papaver somniferum) fill a vegetable bed. They were pulled as soon as they finished flowering to make way for brassica seedlings and to give the squash and pumpkins more room.