Claire, I love your H. 'Yao Ming' which, according to its name, should be very tall. It's color reminds me of my H. 'Light the Way'... also a tall white/green.

Yes, my roses are also resting. The terrible heat wave combined with the fact that we haven't watered them much due to water level issues has reduced their flowering for this season. Many plants in our long, sunny border have suffered from the heat. So it was wonderful to see the lush green of your gardens.. thanks!

Thanks, Molie. I really like the spider-type daylilies - they just seem so graceful.

The water restrictions here are getting tighter, but they still allow hand-watering with a hose (plantings, not lawns) within certain hours. It helps that I have birdbaths scattered around so when I flush the birdbaths I also spritz the nearby plants.

Claire

I love your Lily, Claire. Very beautiful!

Not many photos being posted this year. My garden could not look worse. Too dry, too hot and too busy, and can't water enough. I've lost a lot of ferns this year and only two hydrangeas have any flowers on them and those are sparse. The lawn is more brown than green. I have one bed with a combination of vegetables and perennials that gets most of my attention, that looks okay. Everything else is just in survival mode. Hope we actually get some rain today.

Prairiemoon, you are so right; this is not a good year for gardening. Although we have had scattered rains, we have not escaped the drought. My veggie garden was eaten by rabbits, and other plants oddly just did not grow at all.

My vegetable garden finally has bounced back, sort of, since the two hills of summer squash took off, and the mizuna (a sort of cabbage-y vegetable, and the only early crop that the rabbits didn't care for) has flowered and adds a bit of interest.

The only other flowering things of interest are these Indian pipes in our woods.

Molie, I wanted to thank you so much for the link to https://www.oakesdaylilies.com/

I bought two Canadian Border Patrol daylilies and they arrived very promptly along with a dusty pink colored freeby. Their plants were very well developed and healthy looking, even better than the daylilies that I've ordered in the past from https://smokeysdaylilies.com/

So now I have two reliable "go-to" online places for daylilies. Thanks so much!

You are welcome, sped! Hope to see some photos next year of your three new daylilies. Don't you just love free plants?

Spedigrees - Glad your vegetable garden is bouncing back. It’s odd that you should say, some plants just didn’t grow, because I thought that this year too and I have no explanation for it. We also have a woodchuck making a meal of what did grow in the vegetable garden, so, tomatoes and peppers are about all I’m picking at this point. Although I did try potatoes this year for the first time and was surprised at how easy that was. We got a fair amount from a couple of plantings.

Those Indian Pipes are very interesting looking!

It's so nice to see Indian Pipes, spedigrees! They have a bit of a ghostly (friendly ghost) look to them. I see them occasionally but I haven't looked lately in the likely spots.

My hosta 'Diana Remembered' is blooming in a mosh pit of plants. I have several other plantaginea-derived hostas in there and the other late summer white flowers should be starting soon:

I've posted pictures of some of these before but the phlox continue to bloom and delight me in the Phlox Protection Zone. The shorter ones bloomed first and then the taller David's Lavender phlox opened.

The late daylilies continue:

'Frans Hals' is winding down after a very long bloom time, but it has a number of seed pods that I hope will allow it to spread (I don't know if the progeny would be the same). This is a wonderful, prolific, daylily.

'Autumn Minaret'

'Challenger'

The neighbor has some lovely hibiscus in bloom but I can't post pictures of someone else's yard.

My Sweet Autumn Clematis will be blooming soon along with White Wood Aster. When it finally cools down (Heat Advisory today) the roses should come back.

Claire

Bragging from zone 5 NH (near Concord). This rosemary and variegated sages wintered over in my high tunnel. Although inside temps get as cold as outside at night, I swaddled the plants with Agribon row cover. They looked pretty peaked in the early spring but are doing great. The purple sage has overpowered the second yellow and green sage which is on the right. 4 pepper plants are lined up on the right. I should trim the sage back and should have done so long before this but as usual, forget to do some things.

You should brag! It's effort to try to get some things to winter over. Good job! They do look great and so does the foliage on your pepper plant. I had a creeping Rosemary last summer, that I wintered over in the house and that did fine. And has enjoyed the summer outdoors w/o any issues.

You'll have lots of herbs to use for your Turkey when Thanksgiving gets here.

Thanks, prairiemoon! The peppers are only part of my immense pepper project. I'm growing about 30 varieties but there is so much I don't know that I don't post on the hot peppers thread. I do have some hot peppers but nothing very hot. Here is a cute sweet cayenne that is incredibly productive. It's also in the high tunnel but I have a lot of plants outside as well. The ones most exotic went in the high tunnel since even with the sides rolled up, temps are usually over 100 mid day.

Beautiful herbs and peppers, Defrost!

I have but two flowering things that are worth posting. Orange cosmos, and gladioli behind the house. Everything else right now looks drought-stricken.

Good job with the high tunnel and the overwintering, defrost!

Pretty flowers, spedigrees, and your lawn looks amazingly green for a drought. Lawns here are brown with a few green highlights, mostly crabgrass.

September is just around the corner but I thought I'd show a few late late August flowers.

The Royal Standard hostas have been blooming for a few weeks.

Sweet Autumn Clematis is just starting up. This is a volunteer that took over my storage shelf in the alley. I cut it way back in the spring and it bounced back.

The sedums are beginning to flower along the path.

Sedum 'Autumn Joy'

Sedum 'Matrona'

To the delight of the bees which are all over the opening florets.

And I thought the monster mullein was completely gone to seed, but I left it because it looked like a Saguaro cactus. Suddenly it's decided to rebloom at the very top of its seedheads. I saw a bee presumably sipping nectar on the flowers.

The rugosa rose 'Yankee Lady' has a few rosehips. It's blooming sporadically but mostly waiting for it to cool down.

Asters and goldenrods should be next.

Claire

Claire, I'm intrigued by your "Saguaro" mullein. I saw several in some of the gardens during the recent Open Garden Days for the Monadnock NH region. I've always considered them a weed. Never thought of then as something insects would like. Did it just spring up in your garden?

defrost: I've been getting volunteer mulleins every year for the last few years. Usually only one, probably because there just isn't much free space in the sun in my very crowded garden.

I've seen bees and a ladybug on them and my file photos show blooms in October. Apparently the blooms have accessible nectar.

Bee on October 6, 2015

Ladybug on July 6, 2014

This year's mullein is the only one to look like a Saguaro - the others have always had one central bloom stalk and no side shoots.

October 4, 2015

These are all wild-type volunteers - I haven't looked into the fancy cultivars but they might be a wonderful thing for the garden, particularly if they also attract insects.

Claire