My City Garden: In bloom this week

Monday, July 1, 2013

In bloom this week - July 1, 2013

This is one of the best times of the year for my garden. Walking outside each day makes me very happy.

Winecups, Easter lily, and purple coneflower

Black-eyed Susan and Russian sage

Daylily in my hell strip

Astilbe in front of my porch

Astilbe

Stoke's aster

Echinacea

Marigolds that I grew from seed

Nepeta

Zinnia (Cut and Come Again, I think) that I grew from seed

Hollyhock

Clearly the bees are happy, too.

3 comments:

Sarah/ Galloping Horse GardenJuly 2, 2013 at 9:05 AM
Everything looks beautiful. I am so envious of your front porch. There's nothing better than sitting on the front porch in the summer, looking at your flowers.
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JasonJuly 2, 2013 at 12:33 PM
Ooh, I love your Stoke's Aster and Hollyhocks. I know what you mean about the garden coming into peak season now, and how good that feels.
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HeatherJuly 10, 2013 at 2:33 PM
Your rudbeckia are so beautiful! Everything looks wonderful.
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About Me

Hi, I'm Kathryn. I garden in Zone 7a in Philadelphia, PA, where I'm trying to make my enormous perennial garden dreams happen on a tiny city lot.

Before 2012, I used this space to keep track of photos of my garden while maintaining a handwritten journal. Since 2012, I've been using it as that but also as a garden blog. You'll be able to tell the difference in posts.

Also in 2012, my back and side yards underwent a total transformation. I found out I'd been planting on someone else's property (it wasn't really mine) for 7 years. New homes went up and half of my garden was ripped out. I had to start all over.