Re: Emailing: 8-21-09 004

Hi, Chris, Nancy and gang:
 
I'm north of Chicago about 35 miles and we've had a lot of rain and not a  
lot of sustained hot weather this summer so the garden looks like it did in  
June...except for some areas of fungus (daylily 'Happy Returns' had to be 
cut to  the ground a month ago). 
 
Hosta went berserk this summer with 'Gold Standard' leading the way and  
even 'Fire and Ice' doing a respectable job; variegated Liriope muscari is  
looking its smartest; Brunnera 'Jack Frost' has had no signs of late summer  
browning or speckling; Epidemiums are super happy (Gene Bush's babies!);  
Geranium 'Rozanne' is still going strong (also Gene's); all lilies did very  
well; variegated Hemerocallis 'Golden Zebra' put on good growth and still is 
in  bloom; newer lilacs suffered mightily (our heavy clay held onto all that 
rain)  and '08 transplanted Buddleias died but baby Macleaya held on and, 
oddly, the  Baptisia did not bloom but have magnificent seed pods.
 
The Japanese beetles were here in smaller numbers from mid-July to  
mid-August and did their usual to the roses (but 'Jacqueline du Pre's' aroma was  
outstanding!) and Weigela but the tomatoes are spectacular if late. 
 
All in all, a pretty satisfying year and the garden still looks fresh and  
lovely. Mother Nature's rain cannot be
duplicated with a garden hose. 
 
How did everyone else's garden fare?
 
Joanie Anderson
35 mi. north of Chicago 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 8/26/2009 12:40:39 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
lindsey@mallorn.com writes:

>  Sorry about the attachment.  I finally thought of the name.....Arundo  
donax 
> var. versicolor.  I like it in the meadow because it gets  me height out 
> there.  Great place for the critters to hide from  predators.  It also in 
> great in large flower  designs.

Well, that settles that!  A short thread, but I'm glad to  see traffic on 
the list.  :)

How is everyone doing out  there?  What can I do to get people talking 
again?

Here in Urbana,  IL it feels like fall already.  Asters aren't quite 
blooming
yet, but  the temperatures are low, that fall smell is starting to appear,
and the  crickets are chirping away!

Some of my new favorite plants are getting  ready to bloom, too.  Allium
thunbergii 'Ozawa' is an *awesome* plant  and I keep trying to get more.
Although Kalimeris integrifolia and  Kalimeris incisa 'Blue Star' have
already been blooming for a few weeks,  Kalimeris yomena 'Shogun' still
hasn't opened (but it's close!)  The  asters (like 'Raydon's Favorite')
are also starting to swell, but there's  no color yet!  I saw that the
various turtleheads (Chelone) are also  open now.

Chris

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