corner boxes, flowers, helianthuis, arborvitea

it's september but the flowers ellen and shannon planted in may are still blooming away in the corner box on the apartment building side of the garden...not being a flower guy i cannot name them ( beyond the bachelor's buttons ) so it is up to you to fill in the blanks left by my ignorance...helianthus i understand fairly well however and the corner box on the washington street side of the garden is alive with members of that family...they are not finished blooming either apparently...but we will be eating parts of some of them soon...the arborvitae is liking the wet summer and has overcome its original shock to add a few inches in height...the season is not over yet but barring unexpected disaster we can , i think, say it is happy in its new home...next season may call for a reduced watering schedule...provided the climate cooperates.

bent...

the flowers in the corner box have not...and probably will not, regained their upright stature....the pounding they got form this week's rain pushed them over...they're bent but not broken and they continue to bloom and will for some time to come yet...asparagus is not the only resilient plant in the garden...the arborvitae, conversely, seems to have soaked all that rain right up and probably wants a bit more...later this week if forecasts hold true.

corner boxes and clover

the bachelor's buttons that ellen and shannon planted on may twentieth are spilling out over the side of the corner box while the rest of the flowers are going to bloom cyclically until autumn....neat..in the other bookend corner box the helianthus family is in residence for some time to come as the firecracker sunflowers and the jerusalem artichokes compete for blooming honors...just outside the box the arborvitae is doing well...it shocked a bit when it was first planted...due in part because the root ball was bone dry...someone at menards wasn't paying attention to watering...it has recovered nicely and has added a bit of height as the season has gone on...the ends of the branches have stopped turning brow and it looks settled into its new home for a lengthy stay...back in the beds the very first new zealand white clover blooms have appeared...they have been chugging along for a while now...fixing nitrogen and now have turned to working on producing seed...if you look closely under the leaf on the left side of the bloom's stem you can see another flower just starting to enmerge...i still have seed for this and for dixie clover...as well as winter vetch and winter rye and some alfalfa too...we will have "green" nitrogen for spring and erosion control for winter...the season never really ends...just shifts gears.