{"id":104736,"date":"2024-08-27T18:11:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T22:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=104736"},"modified":"2024-08-27T18:54:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T22:54:59","slug":"late-additions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=104736","title":{"rendered":"Late additions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dahlia ‘Windcliff Peach’ in a 17-gallon galvanized “bushel basket” under $30, a roomy container option <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I love my new single dahlia so much I had to post another photo. Blazingly hot but fresh color is a nice look for an August that feels autumnal already. A cool August has brought the small herd of elk down from the mountains to the coast earlier than usual this year to their favorite winter grazing, a farm field off 101 about 5 miles north of me. I have a feeling the herd will magically disappear again by Thursday, headed for cooler mountain haunts, with temps predicted for 85F — not terrific heat but uncomfortable enough if you’re wearing a fur coat. The garden glistened from overnight rain this morning, but my potted dahlia will need vigilant watering in the coming heat later in the week to keep floating those saffron daisies through September. I love the sensation of the garden serving course after visual course through fall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just behind the phormium is where a lot of the late show is happening — selinum, joe-pye weed newly blooming against the established, long-blooming backdrop of Sanguisorba ‘Red Thunder,’ dahlias, patrinia, Persicaria polymorpha. I’m thinking about thinning the burgeoning phormium next year, depending on what this winter has in store. Maybe it will do some of the work for me. (Not in photo — Eryngium pandanifolium has three bloom stalks this year, taller than joe-pye weed so 7ish feet. And on the subject of eryngos, E. yuccifolium has just one bloom stalk, possibly diminishing from too much shade from the maturing tetrapanax. I’ll move just about any plant other than this touchy, tap-rooted eryngium. Better to start again from seed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The white and purple umbels of Selinum wallichianum and joe-pye weed are a great match for August<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The joe-pye weed was lightly cut back around June so is possibly not as tall this year — 6 feet is a more than adequate height! Cirsium ‘Trevor’s Blue Wonder’ still throwing the occasional thistle bloom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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another big presence, Lobelia tupa rubs shoulders with the joe-pye weed, about 14 stalks this year, screened in this view by Stipa gigangtea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen’ was moved into the southeast corner last year and was also lightly chopped back in June. (Unseen in photo, Salvia uliginosa nearby started blooming at the same time — always a surprise how late this salvia is here at the coast. But at least the bog sage ultimately delivers — Salvia patens is not worth growing here at all.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In August Persicaria polymorpha’s white panicles begin to blush pink. This is not<\/em> the invasive Japanese knotweed and doesn’t spread by underground runners — or seed, for that matter. Just a really good, easy shrub-like perennial all summer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lunaria annua ‘Chedglow’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This display of characterful leaves that’s extended all summer may be a one-off, so I’m hesitant to talk about them because I don’t fully understand what’s going on. They are carpeting the narrow border on the north side of the house. Lunaria is a biennial, so when these plants bloom next spring this show of leaves will be over. Somehow the timing of when I sowed and planted them resulted in big lush leaves all summer. It’s probably just a fluke that will be impossible to replicate. (The same lunaria in the back garden shows spindly leaf growth.) Lots of seed-grown aquilegia planted here are now buried under the lush growth of the lunaria (A. viridiflora, atrata, oxysepala) — oof! Like all lunaria, ‘Chedglow’ reseeds like crazy, so there will be plenty of opportunities to experiment again. Hopefully the baby columbine buried under those leaves have a survival plan they’re working on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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