Our next entry in the
SEVENTH ANNUAL INFOMANIAC GARDEN PHOTOS EVENT is
MR. PEENEE...
(Actual untouched photo of Mr. Peenee)
Over to you, Peenee. Tell us about your garden. (And remember to click to enlarge photos.)
A lovely old timey
Buddleia...
I love its fragrance, especially this old one. I have several more further back in the yard with much more dramatic foliage, dark purple with an orange tip, but this is the easiest one for me to get to and also the strongest smell.
A close up of said bed with this years candidates for color,
begonias, caladiums, and coleus. I know they're annual to the rest of the world, but here, some of these are 3 years old and going strong...
Next,
a view down into my patio edged by a large raised bed, in which I have been switching out plants for all these years, never satisfied and then nostalgic for some bed of Calla lilies I dug up in the Bush administration...
The
foxglove is one of those fortuitous accidents, a gypsy that wandered into the yard probably from some bird's poop and keeps coming back every year. Unfortunately, it's in the middle of the path, so you have to navigate around it, I think it's worth it...
I love these tiny, tiny
Rain Lilies...
They bloom when it rains or you water them. They're so small the leaves look like a grass and so my new gardener was weeding them out until I sweetly told him to knock it off.
And finally,
my annual vista of my back yard, taken from the window behind my toilet. It's the best view I have...
There really is a path through there, and at right angles to it is a new trail caused by my clear cutting tumbled down the hill through the irises and ferns and crocosmia. Oh well, everybody needs a little extra space and light every now and then.
Thank you, Mr. Peenee!
