Nasty Habits!

A picture (of the public garden in Plainfield, WI) taken using the pano setting on my phone

The Digital Age has chained some of us to our technology. We are connected to our devices. I am not sure that makes us more or less connected to everyone around us. My mother hates Siri, computers, and the internet... until it solves some small dilemma for her.

My father thinks I have become a Wizard with the knowledge of the universe at my fingertips. HAL, in the form of Siri is at my command. I can find anyone or anything in the universe. My brother, nearly a generation younger than me, disdains this connectiveness because we as a people don't have to "know" anything. We can find "it" out using our phones.

Unfashionably Late...for Garden Walk 2013

'Landini', so dark the pink house looks white

I had planned these all to be in bloom in the borders and accent areas, but they all missed the show!

Maybe it would have been too over the top and given lie to the idea this is a real garden.  Now I can go back to dead-heading roses, and composting/mulching in place, cutting a salad and picking my sugar snap peas, allow my son to park his bike in the yard, and leave my hose out!

And, after my slightly overlong grass on the day of the show has recovered from a lot of foot traffic and the heat wave has passed; I will mow my grass and let it blow onto my lawn (as always!). Although, I was asked what I do with my lawn clippings.  (Sorry! I did not get a bag attachment with my corded electric lawn mower.)

'Algrave' brightening a spot by the pagoda dogwood

'Algrave'

Finally the liatris and daylilies

...and nepeta subsessilis,

Veronica 'Eveline' is starting to bloom, right foreground.

And, filipendula is finally in full bloom in front of my garden fence graphic.

More on my lawn, I did not weed and feed so I have a bit of  clover and crab grass.  It is still a fairly beautiful lawn.  I will keep hand-weeding the dandelions and plantain and be vigilant against creeping Charlie (which I presently have none, nor violets.  I will try to eradicate, by hand, the crab grass. 

It will get watered simply because it borders my beds.

I will maintain my bed lines.

I will continue to edit my borders, removing the right plant growing in the wrong place.   I will continue my war on "campanula horribilis".