Want to make hummingbirds see red? Plant a firebush in your garden. Also called scarlet bush, it is not only among the easiest of plants to grow, but it also stays in bloom throughout the growing season with clusters of tubular red buds and flowers. Because the Southern growing season overlaps the spring and fall migration times of the ruby-throated hummingbird, and red is by far their favorite color, these blossoms will summon them to your garden.
End of Month View: Transitions
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Other than a gradual reduction in blooms and the appearance of seasonal orb spiders and Cyclamen hederifolium I hadn’t really noticed how close autumn is until Pauline of Lead Up the Garden Path talked last week about signs of autumn in her garden. I duly looked UP here, instead of down or straight ahead and, my goodness, the leaves are indeed beginning to turn! Overnight temperatures are now cooler too, down to 7°C in recent days, with a monthly maximum of 29°C. It has been a fairly dry month (and the driest of the year), with around 29mm of rain which has been typical of August here of late. Although the garden would certainly welcome some rainfall, the main thing I noticed when I took this month’s photographs is the amount of foliage, the result of lush growth earlier in the year when rainfall was plentiful.
In the photo above, the usual view from the back of the house, there are still splashes of colour from clematis, Busy Lizzies and persicaria, with a few rose blooms for good measure, but the four square pots have suffered from lack of attention and the contents are all but over. Maintaining pots is something I need to work on next year! Below is the view of the streamside grass and shrub border adjacent to the view in the photo above. As the various witch hazels and shrubs have matured, the feel of this area has changed completely – ten years ago it was all grass with a path snaking through it!
The woodland is a calm and shady place at this time of year, but you can look down at the busy-ness of the bottom end of the garden from the bothy at the far end. The main borders are then shown from the back of the shed too.
Turning towards the woodland edge border, it is hard to believe that the ‘mid-hedge’, comprising
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