. Plenty to do today, but I'm procrastinating a bit.
It's been a while since I've posted pix of my gardens, so thought you'd enjoy seeing what's in bloom here now.
This is a low-growing wood aster.
These are Autumn Joy Sedum with mums (not daisies).
This is a buttonbush I planted last spring. It's a small, native shrub that gets beautiful pure white gumdrop-looking flowers in summer that turn into these seed pods later in the season that feed wildlife.
These are snowball hydrangea flowers that start out pure white in late summer and gradually turn a bronze-pink color. It was once a small tree but it was toppled by a storm years ago and now it's more of a multi-stemmed shrub, as vigorous as ever.
These are hyssop in the back, a total bee magnet, and cosmos in front, which will bloom from early summer til frost. Such an easy, carefree flower.
This is white snakeroot and sneezeweed. I love the late-season color when many other plants are spent.
More wood aster, such an important native fall pollinator plant that grows freely around here with several different species.
My main Autumn Joy bed, photo taken in mid-September. The flowers gradually darken.
This is blue mist flower, a native that popped up in my veggie raised bed, which I then transplanted to a more suitable spot. It has already spread a bit in just one year.
This is bluebeard. Not a native (it was mislabeled by the grower) but gorgeous nonetheless and popular with the local native bees.
Milkweed seed pods
Sneezeweed with bumblebee closeup.
Tatarian aster is not native here in the Northeast, but....It gets to be about 6 feet high unless you remember to cut it by a third mid-summer.
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Also the snowball hydrangeas are amazing.
So when does your garden open to the public and how much are the tickets? That's a lot of flowers in your garden, it's really amazing.
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