Blissful Friday, GPODers!
Amazingly, we began this week in Sammamish, Washington, with Kirk and Martha Painter’s unimaginable backyard transformation (when you missed it, test that submit out right here: Kirk’s Washington Backyard in Panoramas), and we’re ending the week in the exact same city however a completely totally different backyard. We have been first launched to Jeanne’s backyard earlier this summer season with some fabulous photographs of her panorama in spring (Jeanne’s Spring Backyard in Washington). Immediately she is again with an excellent midsummer replace.
Listed below are 9 extra footage from my Sammamish, Washington, backyard. Individuals consider Washington and so they consider rain if they aren’t from right here. What they don’t notice is that we ceaselessly have three months of drought in late summer season. Initially of August now, we’ve not had rain for nearly two months, which suggests we’re watering with irrigation, sprinklers, and watering cans throughout our property. Some vegetation, just like the pulmonaria, which was stunning this spring, have simply dried up. They’ll come again subsequent spring, nevertheless!
Thanks for visiting our backyard once more! Jeanne Erdahl
First, the arbor that results in our yard, which was lined in star jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides, Zones 8–10) this spring: It’s proper beneath our bed room window, so there have been many aromatic nights.
The night solar lit up our 20-foot-tall Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica, Zones 5–9), with only a glimpse of Lake Sammamish within the distance.
We made a climbing tower for a number of clematis out of two 10-foot items of rebar and rusty hoops from previous whiskey barrels.
The fourth image is our paperbark maple (Acer griseum, Zones 4–8) with morning mild and All Gold Japanese forest grass (Hakonechloa macra ‘All Gold’, Zones 5–9) on the base.
We’ve a number of ligularia on our drain-field mounds. This one has leaves a couple of foot in diameter, and the plant itself is about 6 ft huge.
Although the deer graze on it ceaselessly, this hardy fuchsia (Fuchsia magellanica, Zones 5–10) is roofed with blooms.
We’ve a number of of those ‘Gilt Edge’ elaeagnus (Elaeagnus × ebbingei ‘Gilt Edge’, Zones 7–11) round our property. They’re fantastic evergreen shrubs that brighten up our wet winters.
We love backyard phlox (Phlox paniculata, Zones 4–8), which develop effectively right here with out getting mildew as they’ve a behavior of doing in some areas. Not solely do I like their perfume, however I’m charmed by the way in which they wander across the backyard. I by no means know the place they may pop up subsequent. This bunch is seen by means of the seed heads of large feather grass (Celtica gigantea, Zones 5–8).
They aren’t solely volunteers on this location, however in addition they seem like a pure cross between two of our different colours.
Thanks for this unimaginable replace in your backyard, Jeanne! Regardless of the dry situations you battle in the summertime, your backyard continues to be wanting lush and full of life.
What does summer season appear to be in your space? This week we loved two totally different gardens that also look elegant surviving by means of summer season’s worst in Washington state, however summer season situations vary as extensively as our style in vegetation. Be sure you share your summer season highlights with Backyard Picture of the Day! Observe the instructions beneath to submit photographs by way of e mail, or ship me a DM on Instagram: @agirlherdogandtheroad.
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