Foliage

I made myself limit the number of foliage photos I took for Pam's Foliage Follow-up.  I am enjoying being back at work, but am coming home very tired.

I've shown the amaranth before, but since they provide so much color, that I figured I better include one.  I've not grown these before, and can't decide if I like them well enough to plan on planting them next year.

The painter's pallet was looking bedraggled when it was so hot, but it seems to have recovered.

The coleus is still providing some nice color.

I put this sweet potato vine in a bare spot in the ground near the curb, and it seems to be doing the job I put it there for.

The amsonia hubrichtii is beginning to get its fall coloring.

I forgot what this is that I planted this summer, but this one is doing well, and the other is struggling.

I didn't see as many caterpillars on the rue plants this year as usual.

A friend of mine gave me this plant, and the name isn't coming to my mind, but I like the shape of the leaves, so I'm keeping it in the post.

The mother of however many has lots of babies on the edges of the leaves.

I am not getting pesto made this year, but have used some basil for cooking and putting on fresh tomatoes.

My sage I had had for a number of years died over the winter.  For the first time I can recall, I had several volunteer sage plants come up in the vegetable garden.  I'm guessing they were from compost that had the seeds of the one that had died in it.  This one survived being transplanted into the herb garden.  There is parsley behind it, some that was there most of the summer, and some, I just planted last weekend because I was afraid the caterpillars were running out.

I don't remember seeing as many swallowtail caterpillars as I have this year.  I forgot how many instars they have, but this is a young one.

This one is a little older.

This one looks to need to find more parsley.

I recently cut back a volunteer clematis from sprawling all over the hostas.  They struggled through the hot weather, too, and some were eaten by some kind of insect.

The houseplants on the deck are doing OK.

I went back to the front to take a picture of Larry's vine.  I had thought it was a perennial, but we figured out it comes up from seeds that drop from the plant.  Now that the grass is out of the area, I am going to have to do battle with the many seedlings that are not needed.

I'm glad I was able to muster enough energy to do some putzing around in the yard this evening.  It was pretty nice out there.  I hope it's nice wherever you are.