Aww, hold on there. Can't imagine how rough it might feel.

All of those plants look pretty happy. I’m tired too….takes me three times longer to get everything done in the garden.

Today We transplanted three daylilies and planted two hosta. Increasing shade in the yard meant moving daylilies and adding hosta……what a shame ; )

This week with expected cooler temps we will be removing several ”tall phlox gone wild”. A health problem again this spring kept me from doing needed maintenance.

It has taken me a few decades to realize a garden is NEVER done. 😜

Sherry

Paula, I thought Debbie would be on the other side of the state. Sorry to hear you got soaked and with wind on top of it! And ER for a bee sting! That’s not the best week you’re having, so it has to get better.

I’ve had a couple of weeks away from the garden. Some fun at Lake Powell, but then some not so fun unplanned dental work. So I’m telling myself the same thing. This coming week has to get better.

We’ve been very hot and dry. I have a lot of Bearded Iris that I’d like to divide and move. So far I’ve held off on getting any more hostas, but I did find some old-fashioned purple Echinacea that I’ll plant asap.

And finally my EEs are coming up. .....And it seems I can't add photos. Ugh!

I may have figured it out.....

Millennium Alliums and Veronicastrum (Culver's Root) Fascination are flowering now.

Hosta Hope Springs Eternal still looks good for this time of year.

Ann, your slice of heaven is still looking great. Did I call it your Wonderland??? cant remember for sure, guess you do. I have only taken about 8 hosta photos this season😱

Sherry

thanks Sherry..yes you did call it Wonderland 🙂..what a nice name..

I might have less than 8 photos 😱..

let’s take some soon..👍

sandyslopes..glad that your EEs came up!..

Rough week Paula. I suppose if you look at the bright side you don't have to water and it is cooler. Does not help when you are not feeling your best.

Sherry you have had more than enough health problems. I am just glad you are out there moving plants and putting in more Hosta- get pics! Our yards do change over time, getting more or less shade. Between ice storms and EAB killing Ash I have lost so many trees.

Ann never surrender and admit defeat! Move it or lose it is my motto lol! Your yard always looks terrific. Take individual pics, we don't care if plants are not pristine. I bet they look better than you think!

Lisa we do have to take the good with the bad don't we. Good thing you had fun before the dreaded dentistry, Great combo of Allium/Veronicastrum! Hope Springs Eternal is sooo pretty and perfectly describes us as gardeners.

I am exhausted too. It has been extremely hot all summer and I have not been able to work in the sunny areas that need so much work. We have just had a couple of days now that were not sweltering so I did dig out a bed in full sun for a total redo. Mostly I have been doing battle with horsetail in two beds that get some shade. I have filled big garbage bags with it and I know I will never be rid of it completely but I am making a dent in it. It is the most awful weed!

Weeding and mulching as I go. Some established plants and some new additions last fall that were inundated with the horsetail. I have finished digging the rest of the bed not showing and will add a few more plants then finish mulching and move on to the other bed in progress. No it never ends...

Laurie, just went out and took a few pictures……not the greatest but I did it. In order…..a baby June replaced a daylily, Patriot replaced another daylily. Last is a photo of what I think is Forbidden Fruit……it surprises me because it is near the base of a blue spruce and has not been bothered by roots🤞🏻.

Do I see Crocosmia in your photos? Miss that in the garden.

Sherry

Yay Sherry! Great pics of your new ones. That certainly does appear to be Forbidden Fruit. I think it is a beauty and I have been holding one. If I can't find a spot for it I may just take out Orange Marmalade which seems to grow at a glacial pace for me. Yes that is Crocosmia, I understand why you would miss it. Such a great plant. Any plans to find a spot to start with it again?

I was so tired this a.m. when I posted I forgot to mention that I spent 2 hrs. last night spraying with Bobbex....rotten deer.

I am going to do my best to find a spot for crocosmia again……hard cause I am loosing sunny spots.

Oh my goodness, those darn deer again! I still post on the daylilies forum, it is a constant problem for those folks too. One member ties dryer sheet strips to the flower scapes. It works most of the time but doesnt look too nice. Hope the Bobbex works! Soooo disappointing when the critters destroy our hard work. I have a similar relationship with rabbits🤬.

Sherry

I do hope you find a spot for it, I don't know how hot you have been but it has been very hot the last 4 years here, I have been mostly working in the shade, the older I get the less I can take the heat. I have to move a couple of pink daylilies that are not happy in blazing sun,

Bobbex works very well against deer & rabbits. The good news with daylilies is I only need to spray the flower scapes when they emerge. Of course I have to spray Hosta, Phlox and others every 2 weeks. I would need a 12 ft. fence to keep out the white-tailed deer and that is impossible in my rural forested area. There is always something trying to ruin our fun!

Well I haven't done much and it's Thursday already. Like several others it gets a little more difficult every year to keep everything up. I have dreams of expanding the gardens but not sure if it will happen. Been blessed with some good rain the past couple weeks so keeping watering to a minimum.

I did pick up a couple new hostas on clearance at a local nursery, Coast To Coast and American Halo. Don't know where they're going to go but maybe just a part of that "dream".

Strange goings on here, something has been turning over a couple pots and dumping out the contents. They are about 3 feet off the ground on a railroad tie pedestal. Raccoons I'd guess but don't know what they are looking for. They've all but ruined my Autumn Frost.

Y'all keep on keeping on.

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Plantiginea, the venerable August lily. This is in a bed I’m trying to recover, which became overrun by grasses and weeds after the ash trees died. (Meaning please ignore the background and the puny size of the plants, lol)

More power to you Indianagirl! Wish it didnt take so long to recover areas.

Sherry

Indianagardengirl - I love the Plantaginea flowers! My brother-in-law gave me a clump three years ago. I made four plantings from it and they are all but one in full bloom.

Old_dirt, I’m with you…..here it is now Friday. The last week was eventful. Two routine vet visits, an ER vet visit and a follow up visit. Jingle, my 18 year old cat with hyperthyroidism is one who needed ER visit. One day after the vet visit where we discussed shaving him because he’s so matted, we noticed flies landing on him and hanging around him. We brought him in the house to check him out. There was a mat on his side that was icky looking so DHheld him while I went to cut it out. Instead, I cut his skin. Now we had an ER situation. So we went. They checked him over and found a number of open wounds where the bugs were starting to nest!! 😵😵‍💫😱

So they had to shave him down all over. They showed us a video where one whole side was shaved. That whole side looked like an open jacket when they folded it back. They told us that me cutting him was actually a blessing in disguise because the cut was just through the skin which they could use an adhesive to close. And cutting him made us bring him in for a shave which we were considering doing anyway. He has a little shirt on to protect his skin and warmth as he could not go outside for about 10 days. I spent much time last week sitting with him to keep him calm. Didn’t get much done in the garden, but it was blasted hot anyway.

The last two days I spent time deadheading petioles and ugly leaves. Some of my hosta look like they have nematodes……not sure what to do if that’s the case.

Sherry, I don’t think your 2nd pic is Patriot. Patriot has a dark green middle with white edges. Check it out. I agree with peren that your FB is FB. I also agree with peren when she says a garden is always changing and never done. It’s really a living thing all on its own.

Paula, glad you’re ok. I never have been stung by a bee and hope it never happens!. Happy that your hostas are happy!

Laurie and Ann, your yards always look wonderful.

Sandyslopes, so nice you got some time at Lake Powell. Your Hop Springs Eternal looks very nice!

IGG and old_dirt, Plantaginea is beautiful! Wish I had one….. bought one years ago but it didn’t survive.

Here’s a pic of Jingle. It’s cool today so he opted to come in. Also a few hostas still looking good.
Astral Bliss,Awakening Angel, GL Blue Banana.

debra

P.s. I forgot to say the open wounds on Jingle were from his fur mats pulling so tight that it was opening up the skin. He started to go out yesterday. He was so happy to be in the sun! ☀️

debra

igg you know I can relate to having to do a bed recovery! You and old-dirt have very nice examples of plantaginea.

Debra I had p. 'Venus' and lost it. GL Blue Bananas is so impressive!

Poor Jingle. The good news is he is on the mend, so it all worked out in the end. Poor baby must be so confused as to why he is naked lol! I bet he feels better without all that pulling on his skin. Quite an ordeal for both of you.

Ann, thanks for cheering on my tiny EEs. It looks like a deer ate the little leaves off one of the three pots. It’s just not meant to be for me with EEs this year.

Laurie, I had to look up horsetail weeds. What a problem they look like forming colonies from rhizomes! Good luck on getting ahead of them. And every time I see your Crocosmia, I think I need to try them again. Especially now that my zone is a better environment for them. Sorry your deer population has grown to be such a problem. It wasn’t always this way, was it? I’d be less inclined to look kindly on them if I had as many as you do.

Sherry, your hostas are looking good for this time of year.

Old_dirt, if you hadn’t said you had rain, I’d think raccoons or some animal was looking for water. Sometimes we can’t figure these critters out. My best ceramic bird bath was broken by being knocked over one too many times. I figured raccoons or a cat jumping at a bathing bird. Your Autumn Frost was off to a good start when you showed it. I hope it will bounce back for you.

Indianagardengirl, I liked how you put that. Recovering a bed is a constant for me it seems. The grass and weeds know how to quickly take advantage, but the large flowers on Plantiginea are always impressive.

Debra, Jingles is lucky you’re taking care of him. Eighteen is getting up there for a cat. Is this one of the ferals you’ve tamed? I wish for Jingles to have a good recovery! My Molly is getting so skinny that I took her to the vet and just got the diagnoses of hyperthyroidism. She’s scheduled to have the radioactive iodine therapy in two weeks. ...And good for you getting outside to deadhead.

Poor Jingle! Who would’ve thought cutting him would actually bring such relief? Hoping he recovers quickly!

Lisa I hope you never experience horsetail, yes rhizomatous and they can go 4 ft. deep. Horrid. You should try Crocosmia again. I planted the corms about 6" deep. It takes them a while to come up in spring but I have had mine in the ground for well over a decade, There was no way I was going to dig them up every fall. There has always been a huge deer population but they are just getting bolder. There is plenty for them to eat in my rural area but they really enjoy my buffet. Rotten, horrible, beautiful creatures they are. Poor Molly/lucky Molly that she has you to care about her. Please keep us updated as to how well she responds to the therapy. Is she one of your feral adoptees?

Lisa, Jingle is from the 2nd litter of kittens my mother cat had. He was “feral” but became socialized to us. He’s never lost the urge to go out. Now he sleeps in the house at night and goes out in the morning after he eats. Jingle also has hyperthyroidism but I give him a transdermal dose of Methimazole on his ears, alternating ears each night. It’s simple to do. I wonder if that would work for Molly? It would be far less expensive and no side effects.

debra

Laurie, I’ll be on the lookout for Crocosmia at the nurseries. I think I’ll try it next to the house on the southwest side. I found Molly at a cat rescue. She was brought in as a kitten, so she’s been with me for most of her eleven years. It's going to be hard having her gone for a week.

Debra, I can see how having Jingle since he was a kitten would help him be better socialized than most ferals. Molly is my third cat with hyperthyroidism! The first had successful iodine treatment and was good as new for many more years. No side effects from that treatment. The second kitty had low blood sugar, which precluded her from getting the iodine therapy. She was on the Methimazole on the ear treatment, and it helped, but there were a lot of back and forth visits to the vet to be sure of how the dose was working for her. I remember having to make adjustments and had more worries about keeping her balanced, but then she had other things going on, too.

debra and sandyslopes..I love your big hearts and the way you care for your animals 🥰..best wishes for Jingle and Molly..both of my sisters own rescued cats..they also share the responsibility to care for a feral colony..
I’ve noticed that everyone in our hosta family loves animals..

I took pictures today..these were the top 3 hostas..

Krossa Regal..2 pictures..

this KR does not have white leaves!..not sure why this pic looks funny..

oops..didn’t get the tops of the scapes..they’re tall!..

First Frost..

June..

Honeybells has nice fragrant blooms..

this small volunteer has nice blooms..the fern created a pretty shadow..