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by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: About Flowers, Featured, July

Globe Thistles And Other Nice Looking Xeriscape Plants

Tagged With: butterfly garden, weeds, wildflowers, xeriscape

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 … [Read more...] about Globe Thistles And Other Nice Looking Xeriscape Plants

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: garden chores, July, Plants

Canadian Thistles, Are They the Bane of your Garden?

Tagged With: birds, canadian thistle, goldfinch, thistles, weeds

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, … [Read more...] about Canadian Thistles, Are They the Bane of your Garden?

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: July, summer

My Ohio Garden Resumes The Usual Summer Program

Fennel takes drought wellAfter 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 … [Read more...] about My Ohio Garden Resumes The Usual Summer Program

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: garden chores, gardening tips, July

Mid July Chores

Tagged With: garden chores, July, summer garden chores

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 … [Read more...] about Mid July Chores

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Garden design ideas, July

Color Harmony: July Pink

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 … [Read more...] about Color Harmony: July Pink

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: About Flowers, bulbs, Garden Perennial Plants, July

Arrange the July garden around lilies

Tagged With: flower bulbs, garden design, lilies, perennial border

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 … [Read more...] about Arrange the July garden around lilies

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: 2009, General gardening, July

Fourth of July, High Point of Summer

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 … [Read more...] about Fourth of July, High Point of Summer

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: July

A Japanese Beetle Plague

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 … [Read more...] about A Japanese Beetle Plague

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: July

Mowing and Weeding

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 … [Read more...] about Mowing and Weeding

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: July, the rural story

Rural Observations

Tagged With: July, rural life, summer garden

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 … [Read more...] about Rural Observations

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