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I have to say I have derived great satisfaction from my Anchusa “Dropmore” aka Italian alkanet. It is still blooming and is such a vibrant blue. I started it from seeds I purchased from Select seeds. Also, the Fenbow Nutmeg Clove just bloomed - fabulous color, wonderful scent.
Some of my delphiniums did flop over, but they seem to really thrive up here.
Losers - anything that has a reputation for being easy to grow. I had just one White Dames Rocket survive, and I realized that many of the plants that I started last year are pretty close to the weeds I pull out of my garden.
Self seeding is the big story here. My cutting garden is better this year than last - Dill, Larkspur, Shirley Poppies, Blue Corn flowers, Nigella, a few sweet peas, Burpleurum, Bells of Ireland, Black Prince Snapdragrons (perennial it seems) Cosmos, Calendula, Black Cornflowers, Coreopsis tinctoria, White Snapdragons, all blooming and thriving. Elsewhere, Nicotiana , Siberian Wallflowers, and Verbena Bonariensis need to be thinned out.
The Japanese Beetles have just arrived to the Rose Garden, but I don’t have the stomach for bug murder. I am still weeding constantly and trying to throw down seeds where I can. I don’t even feel like I am treading water, I feel like I am losing ground every day, putting out fires. Meanwhile, I literally have not been stopping to smell the roses, or to look at my lovely lavender hedge that I grew from seed.
Tomorrow I will try to sit in my garden and close my eyes and just smell all the lovely scents, and then walk by the bugs and say hello to the weeds and pick myself a bouqet of flowers and some lettuce for lunch, and sit down and relax over lunch and toast my accomplishments and to hell with the rest.
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