Late August Walk About #1: Aug 26/09

Wonderful. Thanks for the walkabout through your gardens, Bon. The rudbeckias are showing off nicely, such pretty colours. And the four o’clocks are huge. Did you start it from seed this year? Mine are yellow and red, started from seed in the garden this year. They are just getting big enough to show over the other plants. Your love-lies-bleeding is wonderful. Mine got knocked over by the wind and the stocks broke but they are still blooming! They are such a statement in the garden.

-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'

Really enjoyed the tour Bon!! Your Hollyhocks are magnificient!! Smiles at your Prairie Suns!! Rudbeckia’s are very cool, two different colors on one plant – WOW, what a wonderful surprise that is! And the Four O’Clocks are really huge and pretty, nice statement. Everything looks so healthy … gardens are beautiful Bon!

-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" --

enjoy every minute as of now because the end is near…sorry to say, its always so difficult to say goodbye…..but at least we are certain it will be back next year..no actually in 9 months or so…...

-- south shore montreal, zone 5a, whish it was 9

Lookin’ good, Bon. I love the hollyhocks. Your sedum is ahead of mine. Does that mean you get winter ahead of me? ;-)

-- jroot ....... Southern Ontario .......... grow zone 5A ...................."Gardening is an exercise in optimism." ....... . . Author Unknown

looks wonderful!!
such a pretty walk we had :)

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Thanks everyone.Jroot I think it just means I get the pretty red color longer than you. (lol)

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

I noticed a weeeeee bit of pink in mine this morning.

-- jroot ....... Southern Ontario .......... grow zone 5A ...................."Gardening is an exercise in optimism." ....... . . Author Unknown

Your flowers have been beautiful all summer long. Nice job creating gardens where the color lasts through the entire season. I am with jroot and really like your soft-yellow hollyhocks but I am very fond of your blue morning glories too.

-- "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." M. Gandhi

Jroot with last nights cold mine are now a deep pink.I love the way they change color.
Radgal thanks for the compliment.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

I am still counting on my rudbeckias and the gaillardia to carry the color for another week… or two if I am lucky. That and the echinacea…

-- Zone 4a or 4b... depending on where you are standing!