Hot and humid dog days here. Typical Eastern Shore summer weather. Occasional thunder storms may bring rain or just spectacular lightening in the night sky. The garden work never ends. A load of mulching chips is now in the driveway. We will start moving it a few loads at a time in the cool of the mornings. It’s hard to believe that September is just around the corner.
Here are my six on Saturday, a meme started by The Propogator, a UK gardener. This is the link to the rules if you’d like to join in.
- Naked ladies (Belladonna Amaryllis) – I can never remember where this clump of bulbs is, but in August they appear and bloom. This year I found a stray one and moved it to its sisters. Google tells me that there is foliage that disappears before the flowers appear, but I don’t remember seeing that. I’ll put some flags by this clump so I can plant something low around them to hide the stems. These ladies do look undressed.
2. I saved some seeds from zinnias in a Community Garden bed (not mine) last fall. This is my reward.
3. The liriope (Liriope muscari) is beginning to bloom although it is becoming something of a nuisance as seedlings are appearing in the gravel drive.
4. Tomatoes continue in my Community Garden bed. When I picked this morning I realized the strange yellow/white tomatoes were from the Shah plants I started. I tasted one and wasn’t seduced. I’ll throw them into the sauce pot but I wouldn’t can a kettle of just white tomatoes as I suspect they don’t have as much acid as the red ones. The chewed tomatoes were on a plant at home. Squirrels! The eggplant in a pot keeps producing.
5. A fresh flush of ferns in an area where they all died back when we didn’t have any rain for six weeks. The hosta is a Francis Williams. Still no significant slug damage on the hostas this year which is miraculous considering how wet it has been in between the weeks of no rain. Might it be those fireplace ashes I spread around the hosta? The ashes have not deterred deer in another section, however.
6. This is an early morning photo of St. Michaels harbor, a ten minute walk from my house. On the right is the Maritime Museum, a world class facility that is keeping Chesapeake Bay history and waterman culture alive as well as rescuing and rebuilding some of the boats used by the watermen. Every time I go I am astounded that our little town has this jewel. A friend of mine is in charge of the gardens at the museum. He has recreated gardens from different time periods, including what would have been a typical garden at the small home of a freed slave. I’ll take some photos and share them.
That’s my six for this Saturday. I hope you’ve enjoyed what I have to share in my garden on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
That last photo is just gorgeous. Gentle light, calm water.
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We are so lucky to live in St. Michaels near the water.
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Wow! Very beautiful last photo ! You seems to live in a nice place. About the naked lady plant, it’s named resurrection lily here
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I’m going to stick with the naked ladies, Fred!
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Lots to enjoy in your neck of the woods (errr, the coast)! Thank you for trialing the white tomatoes so now I don’t have to. 🙂
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They came as a freebie with a seed order which suckered me into giving them a go. I should have thought better of it. I never grow yellow tomatoes either because they are low acid and most of my tomatoes get canned as sauce.
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Ah, yes. After growing yellow pears for a few years since they’re pretty in salads, I finally got wise to the fact that they’re too lacking in favor to bother with. 😉
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Your last photo is gorgeous. What a lovely spot only 10 minutes walk away. And the gardens sound very interesting, so yes please, some photos!
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I will take myself over to the Maritime Museum on a day when it’s not too hot and take photos. Tomorrow is Watermen’s Appreciation Day and the grounds will be packed.
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Ah, not the best time to take photos of the gardens then. You need a nice quiet time.
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Lovely amaryllis! You reminded me that I was meaning to order these bulbs!
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Just remember where you plant them as I totally forget every year. Then in August, there they are a little too close to the footpath.
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I am behind on reading all the SoS but I just noticed you harvested the white tomatoes that we discussed at the start of the season – I am not surprised that you say they have less flavour as I think sometimes the colour is needed for the taste – almost like they are unripe or something. I think it applies to some of the soft fruits as well.
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Oh, I thought my naked ladies were somehow special for blooming now! You know, I grew up with them, but can never remember when they bloom. I do not think that they are on a very tight schedule anyway. I can remember they bloomed in the middle of September one year when I was in high school.
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Love the colour of the Zinnia! I got some red ones from my pack of mixes seeds but most are quite creamy in colour, not what you grow them for really. The (sailing) Non Gardener loved the last photo.
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We are non-sailers. I get seasick so no fun for me. But I love watching them. We have log boat canoe races on our River every summer. An old Chesapeake Bay tradition.
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Your garden & produce is looking good, even risque! What’re your ideas for around those naked ladies? Look forward to seeing photos of the garden recreations. That’d be so interesting.
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I was thinking some low ferns that would be okay with some sun. At any rate something that would remind me where this clump is located.
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