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Friday, October 18, 2024

Midwest Gardening: What's Blooming in Mid October 24

Most photos taken the week of October 7th-10th.

After an extremely wet summer up until September and SUPER HOT, plants and flowers are actually happiest right now, mid October here in Chicagoland. It's been dry for at least 6 weeks, so watering has been a must.

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I did water these poor Coleus after this photo.

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My planters under the back eave were magnificent, and are still blooming. White Caladiums (from tubers) and Coleus grown from seed. The Giant Coleus were huge this year, they loved the hot and wet climate we had.

Impatiens are still prducing some flowers...waiting for frost to end that.

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Over three feet tall, these were gorgeous, no matter where I planted them.

Leaves are already dropping with the dry weather.

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The last pot was the thinnest, but it gets the most sun and wind in this location, probably the reason the plants were smaller.

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I got a second blooming on my 'grown from roots

Delphinium. This plant will get transplanted next year. This is a fenced area is where I cater to root/tuber starts.

Rich ground, a fence, and some serious shade actually helps to start new plants/tubers safe from critters.

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Water, water water is all we have done the last month.

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My annuals are still in bloom, Peppermint Zinnias, 4-foot tall Marigolds and lots of other colors of Zinnias. They were ALL really late this year. The Coreopsis are already done, and I have spread their seeds hoping for more next year.

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Zinnia pod, prime for picking for seeds. I select the bigger flowers and let them dry on the stem...then pluck and harvest seeds.

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Zinnias are wonderful and prolific, also pretty hardy for light frost, perfect for our location.

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This is the second growth of Sage...IT"S VERY HAPPY this year. Lower right is Majoram, which I have to cut back several times in the summer or it will swallow the whole bed.

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Our garden is pretty much finished, but the carrots are super lush and thick. I have 4 varieties, anxious to see what they did. This area gets partial shade during the summer, so we will see.

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Behind the carrots is my ragtag Swiss Chard, hit or miss.

My broccoli plants performed ZIP, we had two scant meals. Between being chewed by critters and then attacked by bugs, they were a waste of space. Same for the Brussel Sprouts. I will try a different location next year.

I emptied all the fence and patio pots last week and dispersed the dirt to: the box in the greenhouse, permanent planters, or the compost pile. That's always a big job. later I will mix in fertilizer and new or composted dirt to freshen the soil.

I had surgery on the 15th, so all this had to be at least under control before then.

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Such a jumble of half dead plantings, time to recycle the dirt. I will have hubby bury 6 pots of peppermint in a plastic bag in the compost pile. Saving me $$$$ in Spring when I restart them in the greenhouse. Leaving them in a bag, stops them from spreading where we don't want them.

Peppermint is my Bee protection, as I am severely allergic. We keep Peppermint pots by the grill, the dining tables, the entrances to the house. That way they don't interfere with their busy bee pollination missions.

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Here's the back porch with all the potted Coleus and some peppermint, this is total shade here.

Jumping to October 18th, I walked around the backyard and took a few more photos for the next post.

Also have a Fall project....NEXT

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Sunday, September 1, 2019

Midwest Gardening -Late August 2019 Part 2

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August 29, 2019.

We scurried around battening down the hatches. Supposedly a storm brewed for later in the day. I took some photos, without pristine cleaned up flower beds. I've been deadheading heavy, because that's easy for me to do from a chair, or from cement/decking.

I hope I've captured some new views. Look at this sweet mini sunflower. I had planted four packets of different sunflower seeds. The tall one was a red, but the wind today stripped it of petals. My crazy marigolds are a hardy bunch, from seedlings we grew ourselves.

We really didn't use the porch much---it was so hot! I quick moved the table planter back in the shade after the photo. Next week, we will morph into early Fall, here.

I have sat at the table under the umbrella...I love being perched up there and watching the bird feeder.

This is my one SUNFLOWER success....it's not over 6 feet like usual, but it's blooming. There are 5 buds getting ready to open, on this one monstrously thick stalk. The leaves are huge!

Down the front walk...the trellis's are bare, (missing sunflowers) but the potato vines are still going strong. The Petunias are pooping out, Lobelia is long gone, and the marigolds are carrying the load. I bought some mums to go into the pots and fill in the holes.

Here's the backside of the mailbox planter...still going strong.

Our front has quite a bit of shade...and my focal pots are still doing well. Look at the size of those Hosta flowers, and all the holes in the green/white Hosta---bugs. Giant Sedums are just beginning their flowering.

Planters in the shade did well---I really have to watch that one on the right that gets a half day of sun, and keep it watered.

We haven't taken down the birdhouse branches yet...the burn pit is so full we have to wait for no wind to burn. Windy City applies to the burbs here do--as the wind crosses the plains with not much to stop it.

On the right side of the porch is the pond area...the planters there are carrying the whole show. Phlox finally did bloom.

On both sides. Phew, I thought the Phlox on this side was dying. No rose bloom either yet, think it's been too hot.

I pulled some weeds, missed the clover...and added some clarifier to the pond. Our bitty frog, he has grown and made a friend with the resin turtle. He has a few different places he sits, and he must have chased the second one ---off. I haven't seen him/her.

The East fence is full of pickles, dill, squash, marigolds (for the bees), and Day Lilies which are done blooming. Sigh. It was so hot, the blooms lasted only a few hours, but they were gorgeous and we had continuous blooming with all our rain.

Across the way along the house is a mess of Sweet Peas which are mostly 'peaing' now and not doing sweet blooms. The large leaves are some MUTANT Morning Glories that show up everywhere!

This little watering can is lost in the first year Hollyhocks and squash plants.

The last Hollyhock bloom. Small and white! I hope the new ones have some color. I will be dispersing the seed pods, once they are full dried. I might try some at the back pond. I love the pod shapes like bottom up Hazelnuts.

To the left is an area of sun and shade. Cosmos in the pot, drooped and bent low and are finally blooming.

This long 3 foot planter is simply gushing blooms, they have swallowed my fairy statue.

On the porch stairs the Rex Begonia is battling the bugs, something is happily chewing on it. It needs to be sprayed with soap, and I will move it to the front porch, when it's debugged. The fountain grass was housed over winter, I will cut it back and try that again.

I've decided to use these Coleus from seeds in my planters in front with red mums...I'll do this on Monday. Holidays are for working, RIGHT?

There's some beans I picked, the Impatiens are still happy everywhere. I didn't clean everything up with rain and wind on the way.

These are more Coleus we grew from seed. They are huge, and I will try and move them to the front in pots and planters. The little pots are Iceland Poppies from seed---that aren't doing anything???

The birdbath in the garden has peppers in pots around it, and our only Black-eyed Susan.

The last of the Day Lilies!

This watering can has a new type of Coleus that is thick stemmed and very hardy.

It's copper-leafed...I love it.

I'm grouping plants next to the grill for protection from the supposed bad weather.

Left is our Lemon grass our natural mosquito repellent.

This planter of Caladium (planted in April-finally is doing well.

Same bag of Caladium corms, same dirt and this one is not! I use half composted dirt and half name-brand potting soil for all the big pots. I'll have to see if the drain hole was plugged.

There's more, but I will spare you!

Another post in two weeks-Fall is around the corner.

PS, it's 9:30 pm and no storm...so we will water like crazy tomorrow!

Check List for next year-please tell me what you will be doing.

How did your perennials do?

(Lost too many to talk about-again!)

How did your annuals do?

(Plants did well, seeds did not due to very cold wet Spring.)

What won't you be planting again?

(I'm not doing Geraniums anymore.)

What will you plant more of?

(I'll be planting more Sedum plants and more Hostas, they seem to survive everything-cold, wet, dry and heat)

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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Late Summer Midwest Garden

Midwest GREEN gardening is Nature's crapshoot!

This year we, like much of the country, Chicagoland suffered beastly heat, humidity,

then drought, then drowning, then rinse and repeat.

Yesterday I cleaned up clippings and chopping from a week ago, because this is the first real break in the weather we have had to finish that task.

Friday, October 18, 2024

Midwest Gardening: What's Blooming in Mid October 24

All the opinions and photographs in this blog are my own, unless otherwise designated. I have not been paid or reimbursed in anyway for my opinions, posts or any products shown or anywhere I shop.

Thanks ALWAYS for visiting!

I will try and respond to every comment and answer every question. Please don't use my photos without my permission. Sandi Magle

Sunday, September 1, 2019

Midwest Gardening -Late August 2019 Part 2

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Late Summer Midwest Garden

I will try and respond to every comment and answer every question. Please don't use my photos without my permission.
Sandi Magle