Garden 4

Garden 4August 17, 2015

On Monday evening I walked around my yard and made a few more photos.

The first two photo show flowers of meadowsweet, which grows wild all around here. It actually makes a good hedge between my gardens and the trees.

I've been planting nasturtiums since the first year I moved into this house and collect seeds every fall. They are very prolific and bloom from late July through to the first heavy frost.

Asters have started to bloom around my yard - the variety that grows here are late summer and fall bloomers.  A sign that our short summer is beginning to fade.

I showed photos of the golden marguerites previously but I photograph them over and over. The bright yellow blooms also last from July through to a heavy frost.

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Asters

I have been photographing asters since I moved to Holyrood in 1982. They are growing all around my property and I really like them. There are several types of asters growing in Newfoundland and Labrador, but I am not positive which variety, or varieties, grow here. These may be showy asters and I have heard them called common asters as well.

These blooms were on plants that were 4-5 feet in height with many blue flowers. The first two photos were taken as a large cloud covered the sun, but the last three were taken in direct sunlight. You can observe the difference in the colours of the flowers in different lighting conditions.

I started this series of photos stating that a plant is only considered a weed if you don't want it to grow in a particular place. Like the other plants I shared images of over the past few days, I remove these plants from my vegetable gardens. The purpose of the series was to show you that some of the weeds around here have beautiful flowers.