Blooms, Despite Weather and Wildlife

A garden that keeps on keeping on

receive to Evelyn Drake ’s garden !

I so much enjoy exposure from others ’ garden , so I decided it was time to share . We would n’t have this post otherwise ! I garden in rural northwestern Illinois , where the weather condition and wildlife “ visitor ” can take their toll . While I like to believe there is a plan , I ’m a sucker for anything novel , and so it often becomes “ cramscaping . ” I really enjoy direct advantage of volunteers , and so I watch for them as I am weeding . We had a very harsh winter , and I ’m hop it has not hurt too many plants !

This Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree peony(Paeoniahybrid , Zones 3–8 ) had more than 150 flower ! I counted them while deadheading .

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree paeony ‘ Spring Carnival ’

The bed with the prolific tree diagram peony ( upper right ) has grown this year , lay down room for this delphinium(Delphnium elatum , Zones 3–8 ) , which bloomed really well despite air current damage double during the summer .

A favorite clematis mingles with daylily ‘ Stella d’Oro’(Hemerocallis‘Stella d’Oro ’ , Zones 3–9 ) in bloom .

Early season in the back perennial border .

A little later on in the same bed , the bush clematis and stachys ‘ Hummelo’(Stachys officinalis‘Hummelo ’ , zone 4–8 ) were in flush .

Bottlebrush buckeye ( Aesculusparviflora , Zones 4–8 ) in bloom .

It ’s not really meant for them ! Harry Lauder ’s walk stick(Corylus avellana‘Contorta ’ , Zones 4–8 ) , a lily-white birch(Betulasp . ) started from a friend ’s seedling , and a fresh planting of winterberry(Ilex verticillata , Zones 3–9 ) make up this small-scale bed . The Harry Lauder ’s walking stick is kind of taking over . Maybe the deer will prune ?

Later in summertime , daylillies(Hemerocallishybrids , Zones 4–10 ) steal the show . They are very tolerant of our weather .

More day lily

‘ Pinky Winky ’ hydrangea(Hydrangea paniculata‘Pinky Winky ’ , Zones 3–8 ) and newly planted ‘ Grace ’ smokebush(Cotinus‘Grace ’ , Zones 5–8 ) . The rainbow steals the show , though .

Same bed , a little afterward , dissimilar slant . The enceinte - leaf plant is a volunteerNicotiana(ornamental tobacco plant , annual ) that always draws aid .

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