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July

16.07.13 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Globe Thistles And Other Nice Looking Xeriscape Plants

About Flowers + Featured + July

The last post was about thistles, since I had been hard at work in the garden getting rid of as many as I possibly could manage, but there are lovely garden flowers that have thistle characteristics without their tendency to elbow everything else out. Long ago, when planting my first garden on Glen Echo (isn’t…

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15.07.13 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Canadian Thistles, Are They the Bane of your Garden?

garden chores + July + Plants

I don’t know anyone who says they like this plant. We all call it a weed, and doggedly work to eradicate it from our yards. That has been one of my occupations of late, and I find there is something of an art to ridding the garden of Cirsium arvense, as horticultural Latin nomenclature labels…

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22.07.12 | Ilona Erwin | 4 Comments

My Ohio Garden Resumes The Usual Summer Program

July + summer

Fennel takes drought well After the very remarkable weather we’ve had this summer, from damaging storms through wearying drought, the recent spate of rainstorms has brought something of normalcy to this Central Ohio garden. In fact, it is almost something of an ideal for this time of year, with cooler mornings, bright sunshine, blue skies-…

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07.07.11 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Mid July Chores

garden chores + gardening tips + July

It finally heated up and this is what we expect in July: hot muggy weather. It is time to keep up with the weeds, hoeing them out in the morning means that the hot sun is killing the weeds and not you. Afternoons are made for sipping lemonade in the shade of a tree. Look…

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06.07.09 | Ilona Erwin | 3 Comments

Color Harmony: July Pink

Garden design ideas + July

I usually attach a color idea of orange and yellow to July, maybe because of the bright light, or the fact that many flowers in those hues are in full bloom in this month. But pink is still a garden color that while warming towards salmon in many of July’s bloom choices helps to cool…

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05.07.09 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Arrange the July garden around lilies

About Flowers + bulbs + Garden Perennial Plants + July

Every month has it’s supreme leading lady flower of the garden; June has the Rose, but July has the Lily. Especially now that the “Orienpets” have been created. They were the belle of several beds at the Inniswood Gardens Metro Park, and I would love to have some in my garden next year. “Orania” was…

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04.07.09 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Fourth of July, High Point of Summer

2009 + General gardening + July

For me, the Fourth is the watershed of summer….everything builds to this place of heat, picnics, and fireworks, and is downhill from there on through to the last gasp of summer, Labor Day. Maybe because the mystery is gone by the fourth of July. I know whether my seedlings thrived, what the insect populations are…

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16.07.08 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

A Japanese Beetle Plague

July

Japanese beetles have struck my garden again. Out mowing, I noticed the Stella cherry tree was bronze with skeletonized leaves. Coming closer it was filled with the terrible metallic armored beetles munching away. It gives me the willies to mow underneath these infested trees because a rain of beetles comes down on me when I…

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01.07.08 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Mowing and Weeding

July

Sorry the pictures aren’t up yet, I’ve kept too busy to blog properly, although I have tried to keep the facebook going. Mowing and weeding are all we are doing right now. Ohio has turned into a rain forest, it seems, the perennials are lush and the grass abundant. Unfortunately, the fields have flooded and…

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16.07.07 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Rural Observations

July + the rural story

This week I traveled from mid-Ohio to mid-Indiana, and there is quite a bit of rural landscape to be enjoyed along such a route. I keep track of how the farm crops are doing since I live in the midst of corn and soybean country here. As might be expected, even with the rain we…

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