Mid-Atlantic Gardening: August blooms, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
OK! I am so envious-----hart, you have the most gorgeous dahlias and Lilies and everything else.....

Everything I have is, pretty much, same old-same old every year with a very few exceptions....
I am a real miser--and almost never order anything from catalogs. The prices seem so high! But--I know the quality is too.
Also--I have NO WHERE to plant anything new!!!! My biggest frustration! The back yard is a lost cause because of the 2 Maples.....I am nicely perennializing my YUK bed--By now many really nice flowers seem to be thriving there....These must be tough as nails--because no annuals ever do well there--with the exception of Straw Flowers and Lantanas. Everything else dies.....

By now I have (the ones doing good) Shastas, Lilies (so-so), Jill's Not Chocolate daisy, Your Clustered Bellflowers, Some Salvia (from seed), Stella D'Oros, Autumn Joy Sedum, AND--to my surprise--the Butterfly Weed I grew from seed this Spring is starting to bloom.
I also bought a pot of Echinacias and planted them there and might transplant some Rudbeckia Goldstrum there next Spring from my front bed. That bunch sure took off. it is only it's 3rd year.
I guess that shows me how well things CAN grow w/o any tree roots competition.

There are some other things--just much smaller....Some ferns, Two Lenten Roses on either side of my Bird bath, Two struggling Butterfly Bushes on either end, Some Rose Campions, My "slowly-becoming-a-bush" of a Rosemary, my Chrisanthemum Pacificum and assorted bulbs in the Spring....Whew! Sounds like a lot!!!! Also--a forever existing/struggling Tropicana Rose (from Eons ago) and 2 Peonies.

Here is the better half of the "YUK" bed. I talk enough about it! You might as well see what it looks like. This is from June. The Bird Bath is on the extreme left. The Shastas and Jill's NCD is on the extreme right--where the bed takes a turn.
My property ends with the split rail fence. There is a young, single man living in the house you see. he is seldom home.