August Photos

Today is the second of September and I am just getting around to posting August's photos. My legitimate excuse is that I couldn't get my photo stream to update and so I couldn't access the photos on my computer. But I finally sorted that out, so now I'm getting things up and running.

August is a month of wild growth in our garden. There are fewer flowers than in the spring and early summer months, but what our garden lacks in flowers it more than makes up for in foliage. There always comes a point in August when I am out in the garden and have that feeling that if I don't watch my step I will be enveloped by plants and disappear from the map. It feels a little like Little Shop of Horrors.

Sometime in July we had a volunteer plant show up in a pot on our deck. The pot used to sit on my kitchen counter and house a Venus fly trap. But that died and I had never gotten around to planting anything different. When our infamous kitchen remodel began, I didn't have anywhere to put the pot, so I just stuck it out on our deck table and figured I'd deal with it when the kitchen was more manageable. But then, one day, a little succulent sprouted. Since life was still chaotic, I didn't even pay attention to it. And it flourished. The next thing I knew, there were beautiful pink flowers blossoming on it. Where it came from is a bit of a mystery, but it is a delight nonetheless. We named them "LiLi flowers" because Lianna's favorite color is pink. They bloom every morning facing the sun, and die off around mid-afternoon. Almost every day we have at least one and every day Lianna is genuinely impressed that a flower bloomed just for her.

LiLi Flower

And now, to the photos:

Water Lily in our (failed) water garden

Pallet garden

Beauty berry bush

Cherry tree corner

Lilac and Butterfly bush

Back right corner

Crape Myrtle in bloom

Spiral

Crape myrtle blossom

Japanese maple corner

Fig tree

Volunteer squash blossom

Cairn