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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Lush August

by Anne Laurie|  August 22, 20217:03 am| 54 Comments

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Sunday Morning Garden Chat 42

More glorious photos from commentor Jeffg166:

Top pic: I don’t plant the morning glories. They come up by themselves. Real thugs over running everything else.

8.15.2021: Crape myrtle with sunrise.
Sunday Morning Garden Chat 44

I don’t like Rose of Sharon. My neighbor has one. The seeds get carried or blown into my garden. They are weeds in my garden. I pull out lots every year. This one by the birdbath was left to serve as a perch for the birds.
Sunday Morning Garden Chat 43

8.21.2021: The sunflower my neighbor gave me.

Sunday Morning Garden Chat 45

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Sidebar, for your amusement: An essential part of astronaut self-care:

#THREAD: The extreme conditions of Antarctica make it an ideal place to test technology that could allow us to grow food in inhospitable settings like Mars. But plant scientists are testing something else there too: how fresh produce impacts well-being. https://t.co/Rdh7GL48zr

— The Counter (@TheCounter) August 21, 2021

What’s going on in your garden(s), this week?

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  1. 1.

    eclare

    August 22, 2021 at 7:05 am

    Love the sunflower!

  2. 2.

    OzarkHillbilly

    August 22, 2021 at 7:08 am

    First things first:

    Vivien Louise
    19 3/4″
    6 lbs 5 oz

    5ish am
    Aug 22, 2021

    MawMaw is a happy Mawmaw even if she was checking her phone every hour all night long. Pawpaw is ready for a nap.

  3. 3.

    OzarkHillbilly

    August 22, 2021 at 7:11 am

    Now that that is out of the way, thanx for the pics Jeffg, especially that glorious crepe myrtle.

  4. 4.

    steppy

    August 22, 2021 at 7:11 am

    In a word, tomatoes.

    In many words, we are getting tons of Romas and Genuwines. Canning sauce from the Genuwines that we don’t keep for slicing and canning crushed and whole Romas.

    Lots of okra, still getting zucchini but slowing down a bit, green beans are close to finished.

    Those are getting frozen, canned and dehydrated for the most part.

  5. 5.

    eclare

    August 22, 2021 at 7:14 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:  Congratulations!  Another Baby Girl…

  6. 6.

    raven

    August 22, 2021 at 7:15 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Atta boy!

  7. 7.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    August 22, 2021 at 7:17 am

    Anyone who plants morning glories better be sure they like them, because those suckers are forever.

    Pretty flowers.

    @OzarkHillbilly: Congrats! Much happiness to everyone involved.

  8. 8.

    satby

    August 22, 2021 at 7:19 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:  Congratulations Pawpaw and to Mawmaw and the proud parents! Great news!

  9. 9.

    OzarkHillbilly

    August 22, 2021 at 7:20 am

    @eclare: @raven: We hope to meet her this evening, depending on covid protocols. I’ll find out in a few hours.

    Mama had a difficult and long labor. Her blood pressure spiked and they had to induce so she came a week and half early. Just wasn’t quite ready to meet the world I guess.

  10. 10.

    raven

    August 22, 2021 at 7:20 am

    The princess has crape myrtles all over and I hate the one in front of the house. I risked my life putting the gingerbread on our house and the damn thing blocks the view. It also sheds really sticky crap all over the car! Boo!

  11. 11.

    raven

    August 22, 2021 at 7:21 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Aw, hopefully it all smooth now.

  12. 12.

    Baud

    August 22, 2021 at 7:29 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    ?

  13. 13.

    Mousebumples

    August 22, 2021 at 7:31 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: congratulations! Hope mama is recovering well.

  14. 14.

    satby

    August 22, 2021 at 7:33 am

    Well, I love morning glories and I really love those wonderful bicolor ones up top. Serious crepe myrtle envy too!

    It’s going to be a humid and possibly rainy day today, with another hellish week of high temps with even higher humidity before things cool back down to average warmth and humidity. I’ve gotten a few tomatoes, but when the temps stay over 70° at night the fruit doesn’t set, so not as many as in a less steamy year.

    A suggestion I read online to improve my sandy soil was to mix in biochar and plain clay cat litter. Once things cool down I may be digging up and replanting a lot of my plants in a new soil mix with both of those. Heavy on the kitty litter ?

  15. 15.

    Kay

    August 22, 2021 at 7:43 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Congrats!

  16. 16.

    debbie

    August 22, 2021 at 7:45 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: 

    Congratulations ?! How many is that now?

    One of the two Trump supporters in my neighborhood has a crepe myrtle (didn’t know what it was until now, thanks). They just pruned it back pretty viciously. Will it bloom next year?

  17. 17.

    raven

    August 22, 2021 at 7:47 am

    @debbie:  crape murder, they come back

  18. 18.

    Gin & Tonic

    August 22, 2021 at 7:48 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Congrats, Gramps.

    We’ve done what we can to prep for Henri, now we just wait.

  19. 19.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 22, 2021 at 7:48 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:
    Oh, happy news! Congratulations to everyone, and a big loving welcome to little Vivien Louise ❤️?

  20. 20.

    eclare

    August 22, 2021 at 7:49 am

    @debbie:  People around me prune their crepe myrtles way back, too.  They come back.  I think that is pretty typical.

  21. 21.

    OzarkHillbilly

    August 22, 2021 at 7:50 am

    @debbie: 4! Count them: Cora Eileen, 1! Addelyn Rose, 2! Lyriel Persephone, 3! Vivien Louise, 4!

    I’ve got a thumb in reserve for a 5th baby girl.

  22. 22.

    Kay

    August 22, 2021 at 7:51 am

    I love Morning Glories. They do self seed all over but they’re easy to pull and there is nothing like that blue. I grow batchelors buttons for the same reason- they’re rangy and floppy plants and they look a mess by midsummer but they’re really blue.

  23. 23.

    rikyrah

    August 22, 2021 at 7:52 am

    Good Morning, Everyone???

  24. 24.

    rikyrah

    August 22, 2021 at 7:52 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Congratulations??????

  25. 25.

    rikyrah

    August 22, 2021 at 7:53 am

    Beautiful pictures?

  26. 26.

    Betsy

    August 22, 2021 at 7:55 am

    That Antarctica plant-nursery photo looks like the cover of the latest Kraftwerk album.

  27. 27.

    Baud

    August 22, 2021 at 8:04 am

    @rikyrah:

    Good morning.

  28. 28.

    Elizabelle

    August 22, 2021 at 8:04 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:   Congratulations!  Another little one to spoil.

  29. 29.

    debbie

    August 22, 2021 at 8:05 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Sweet! Don’t let them grow up too fast

    ETA: And you’ve got a whole ‘nother hand!

  30. 30.

    debbie

    August 22, 2021 at 8:07 am

    @raven:  @eclare:

    Thanks, I can stop glaring at the homeowners whenever I walk by the house.

  31. 31.

    Mary G

    August 22, 2021 at 8:10 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Congratulations to your entire family! All your granddaughters have beautiful names, and now you have one more to adore and spoil.

    That white and lavender morning glory is gorgeous. The usual kind grow up a telephone pole in my neighbor’s yard so I get to look at them without constantly having to beat them back.

  32. 32.

    eclare

    August 22, 2021 at 8:10 am

    @debbie:  If they are Trump supporters, feel free to still glare.

  33. 33.

    LiminalOwl

    August 22, 2021 at 8:20 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Congratulations! ?

    @jeffg: Thank you for the flowers. I love both morning glories and Rose of Sharon. And that’s the prettiest sunflower I’ve ever seen.

  34. 34.

    LiminalOwl

    August 22, 2021 at 8:23 am

    @rikyrah: Good morning!

  35. 35.

    WereBear

    August 22, 2021 at 8:35 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Almost a basketball team! Congratulations :)

  36. 36.

    HeleninEire

    August 22, 2021 at 8:37 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: YAY YAY YAY ?

  37. 37.

    Geminid

    August 22, 2021 at 8:38 am

    @eclare: One of my customers wanted their two crepe myrtles pruned back low, because he noticed that a friend had done the same. His wife had just brought a horticulture maven out to instruct me on proper thinning of upper branches so as to a achieve a nice looking, tall plant. So the husband got ignored. He generally leaves gardening projects to his wife anyway.

  38. 38.

    JPL

    August 22, 2021 at 8:39 am

    Sunday mornings  at Balloon Juice are the best.   Flowers and babies, who could ask for more.

     

    @OzarkHillbilly: How wonderful and congrats.

  39. 39.

    Immanentize

    August 22, 2021 at 8:39 am

    Love the pictures of some of my favorites! I also am no Rose of Karen — they always are asking to talk to the head gardener.

    Meanwhile — Devo in Space?

  40. 40.

    Immanentize

    August 22, 2021 at 8:40 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Congrats. Be careful picking up the nippers when you see ’em! Also take that nap.

  41. 41.

    MomSense

    August 22, 2021 at 8:43 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:&nbs;

    Congratulations!

  42. 42.

    Amir Khalid

    August 22, 2021 at 8:45 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:
    Congratulation to the parents and to Pawpaw and Mawmaw; and a big welcome to Vivien Louise.

  43. 43.

    Immanentize

    August 22, 2021 at 8:51 am

    Meanwhile, (now) Tropical Storm Henri has decided the Ocean State is a nice place to land. We should be getting a couple three inches over the next few days. I got the grass mowed yesterday. I love the feeling of getting summer mowing done just before it rains.

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    August 22, 2021 at 8:54 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: I guess I was a day early on the something good thread!  :-)  So happy for all of you!  Especially happy for the mama who had a tough delivery.

    I love all those old-fashioned, traditional names.

  45. 45.

    Benw

    August 22, 2021 at 9:01 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: congrats!

    My garden is full of rain!

  46. 46.

    Falling Diphthong

    August 22, 2021 at 9:05 am

    Morning glories: Years back I tried planting them along the fence by the road. Nothing. A few years back a different color (so wild) showed up in gardens by the driveway. As here: pretty flowers, but they try to consume everything. (Also, why would they not climb the fence, but will climb the deck?)

    I quite like rose of sharon, planted after enjoying them at my aunt’s slightly warmer climate (coastal New England) and trying them here (inland) and was pleased at how well they have done. It’s our main August bloom-giver. My attempts at rhododendrons always died.

  47. 47.

    waratah

    August 22, 2021 at 9:12 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: I envy you as I do not have any. I really love the names of your grand babies.  I am ready for the next one.

  48. 48.

    TheQuietOne

    August 22, 2021 at 10:18 am

    The ONLY reason to like rose of Sharon is the hummers they attract. Potted cherry tomatoes and potted peppers are doing great right now in KC area.

  49. 49.

    Kristine

    August 22, 2021 at 10:34 am

    Love the morning glories.

    Still in drought here in NE Illinois. Yesterday’s expected 0.25-0.5″ fizzled to zip before it reached me. But the front did bring a 10F cool-down and drier air, so I’ll spend part of the morning mowing the areas of lawn that sprang up after the rains of a couple of weeks ago. After today, humidity and higher temps for the next week, but little if any rain. I am over summer.

    Even so, Rose of Sharon shrubs still drawing bees and hummers. The Limelight and Annabelle hydrangeas in the shade garden have flowered, and the mums are just starting to pop. Stuff in pots–the dahlias and my beloved Gerbera daisy–are still blooming.

    Been hit twice by wasps in the last three weeks. Paper wasps, I think. The nests are on the deck, but the mornings haven’t been cool enough for me to even think about getting rid of them. I may need to call the exterminator–the reaction I had to the last sting bothered me.

    I’ve never seen wasps go for the birdbaths like I have this year. I think the drought made them crankier than usual.

  50. 50.

    sab

    August 22, 2021 at 10:54 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: I have morning glories attacking my strawberry pots.

  51. 51.

    Kristine

    August 22, 2021 at 11:55 am

    @Kay: I let the Asiatic dayflowers live in my garden for the same reason. The photo in the linked article doesn’t do justice to that blue. It’s one of the truest blues in plantdom.

  52. 52.

    Betsy

    August 22, 2021 at 1:14 pm

    @eclare: @debbie: 
    That’s called “crepe murder” and while common, it’s pretty bad for the trees, as well as destroying their natural, beautifully muscular and picturesque branching form.

    People do it to stimulate lots of weak, straggly flowering shoots. People keep doing it because they see everyone else doing it. Monkey see monkey do

  53. 53.

    debbie

    August 22, 2021 at 2:00 pm

    @Betsy:

    Okay, back to glaring then! It’s squat and ugly-looking now.

  54. 54.

    Betsy

    August 22, 2021 at 2:31 pm

    @debbie:  In my experience at least, there’s about a 90% correlation of Trumpism and crepe murder, which makes sense when you consider the common threads being vulgarity of aesthetic taste, ignorance, and a general feeling that plant growth (being part of nature) should be hacked back to nubs.

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