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Kimberly Steele ([personal profile] kimberlysteele) wrote2021-06-23 12:15 pm
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Open Post... With a Summer Garden Photo Tour!

The work in progress... I meant to do more plantings in the front.  As I mentioned in my Spring Garden post, the boxwood experiment is over (they hate the front yard) unless they're in containers.  My plans are to put more hardy perennials in the front that can take crappy conditions.  The front garden you see here has got the worst soil in my entire yard.



This is one of the few shady spots in the yard.  It's my favorite spot because it's the most established.  The hostas come in thickly enough to keep weeding to a minimum.  The pear tree hasn't fruited yet but it provides some nice shade.  In this garden, there is a Rose of Sharon, many varieties of hosta, ferns, a black cohosh, catmint, borage, and purple coneflower.




Raspberry bushes -- they are producing the sweetest berries I've ever tasted right now!  Also various daylilies, rudibeckias sown from seed, and a butterfly bush that is about to bloom.

Borage growing alongside the tomatoes.

One of our many ferals in the sea of herbs and Stella D'Oro daylilies that is the Celtic Cross garden.  I never bought a single Stella daylily, by the way, these are 100% divisions from the plants from the front of the office building where I rent space.


Milkweed is blooming!  This milkweed was started from seeds a few years ago.  I gathered the seeds at the local forest preserve sometime around the autumn of 2017.  I just let it grow in the beds.  Butterflies and bees love it.  

Side effects

(Anonymous) 2021-06-24 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Has anyone heard if one of the side effects can be Ulcerative colitis? My 69 year old uncle just got that after his second dose. Everyone else that I know who has got the vaccines have gotten pretty sick after the second dose for only a day. Then they feel fine. Almost all of them are not crazy about the situation so maybe that helps.

Will O

[personal profile] houseofmirrors 2021-06-24 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
I stumbled here after seeing your your YouTube videos so I don't know the references to JMG or the associated blog

Is there an enlightening URL to share?

[personal profile] houseofmirrors 2021-06-24 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you, this looks really good so far!

[personal profile] mollari 2021-06-24 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
Oof. I really hope he/she doesn't get it. I'll write up a story relating my dad's experience with it tomorrow, and hopefully it'll help dissuade him/her. It just seems too risky for my tastes, especially since Dylan said a loved one was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Dead is dead, whether it's Covid or otherwise; but it's surreal how many people don't seem to get that.