West Curb Bed

Spring is in full swing, but summer is trying to come early.  We just don't seem to be having very many days in the 70s.  We have had enough rain, that the plants seem to grow a number of inches every day.  I love it!  I took the photos for this post a couple days ago, and there are changes that have taken place since then.

I started out taking a photo from the yard next door, facing east.

I walked to the street, and  from here, walked around the bed, taking photos of smaller sections, and then, took some farther back in the sections.

Jupiter's beard, salvia, 'Caradonna', perennial geraniums, and the mystery rose are in this part.

There are a number of different perennial geraniums along the edge of the curb.  I deadheaded the irises here.  I am looking forward to the daylilies blooming.

I better cut back the sedums pretty soon, because they opened up and flopped last year, and I want to prevent that from happening.  I would have had it done by now, but I want to give the stems away to people to stick in the ground, as they will root and grow.

I have a variety of liatris plants.  I wish I would have known about all of the native kinds before planting the non-native ones.  I don't remember which these are.

I just found a link that has a chart and good information on different kinds of irises because I couldn't remember the name of these.  They are Dutch irises, which come up from bulbs, and go dormant after they bloom.

I hope the yellow blooming butterfly milkweed gets larger to fill in more space this summer.

This is the original Jupiter's beard that I got a start from for the first one I showed.

I love stokes asters, and liatris.  These may be Kobold, but I'm not sure.

I have one clump of winter savory, the plant on the right, drying.  That's probably all I'll use this winter.  I don't use it often.  Soon, it will be covered with white blooms.

I backed up to get a photo of the area looking west and south, from the edge of the bed.

This is facing west.  The small read blooms are knautia beginning to bloom.

Turning the corner, the aster in the corner is growing back after having a hard cut back in hopes of preventing it from getting mildew, or whatever it sometimes gets, causing the foliage on the stems to turn brown.

The milkweed is sending up shoots far and wide, but they seem to not send up new ones in the same spots I pull them out.  There are flower buds on them now.

I have a t-shirt that has all the insects that visit the "milkweed village".  Aphids and lady bugs are two of them.  I haven't seen any aphids, but if there is a lady bug, there probably are some aphids.

I'm pretty sure these are monarch eggs.

While there are some holes, there are also some crowded plants.

The coreopsis now has some open blooms.

This is the first of the snapdragons to bloom.  These have survived a few winters.

The bush clematis now has some spent blooms.  It sure is a beauty!

The several coral bell plants I moved from under the tree all are doing fine in the curb bed.  They get afternoon shade from neighbor trees.

We made it back to the west end of the yard.  I cut back the fireworks goldenrod in the corner so they won't take up as much space and will bloom a bit later.

I hope you had a great weekend, and got to see the pretty moon Saturday evening.  I am hoping I get the rest of my energy back this week, after being sick and stuffed up awhile.