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Walkway garden, late summer
It's here, my favorite time of year! Temperatures drop (a little), every day brings breezes (usually), it's sunny and dry almost every day, and most importantly all of the plants in my garden have...
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Big
In the previous post I mentioned how I rely on big annuals and tropicals for impact in my garden, and it's only in late summer/early autumn when those plants really start shining. For me castor bean...
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Beautiful Monster
You know I like big plants, right? Castor bean, bamboo, Colocasia and Alocasia -- those big ones fit the size of my yard quite nicely. This year I've discovered a new big one, and it was a surprise for...
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Blending in?
This Green stinkbug nymph is trying to blend in with the red foliage of Hibiscus 'Mahogony Splendor'. Not sure if he's pulling it off. *** Maybe they're just enjoying some colorful foliage while they...
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Cardinal Climber
Annual flowering vines are one of the key components of my garden, even though they really only get going late in the season. Cardinal Climber (Ipomoea sloteri) may be the slowest of the annual vines I...
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Wet Sticks
The other morning was a wet one, and the Euphorbia tirucalli 'Sticks on Fire' really caught my eye. Looked even better through the vintage macro lens! *** Those little droplets catch the low-angle sun...
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View of the deck from inside
The deck gets a few planters each year, but most of the beauty that is visible late in the season is courtesy of the plants that grow up around the deck. Here's what I see from the living room windows...
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Too much?
I always let some "weeds" grow in my yard and garden, and one of the best -- especially for late-season blooms -- is, well, I've forgotten what it is. I think it's Late Boneset (Eupatorium serotinum)...
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Something not quite right?
I haven't been out in the garden too much lately, but as I walked by this bamboo patch I realized something wasn't quite right. Can you spot what caught my eye? *** That one leaf just looks a bit...
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Nothing. Well, almost nothing
"Nothing" is what's been going on in my garden. Or is it what I've done as far as winterizing goes? Or does it refer to this blog, and what's happening here? It's a mix of all three I'm afraid, as I've...
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Mild winter. Is it?
We've had quite a mild winter, with our coldest days coming very early -- in mid-November. Temperatures have been in the 40's F (5ºC) for most of the winter, or even warmer. We've had plenty of...
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I'd like to tell you...
Although I haven't been writing many posts lately, I still look at the garden and the natural world outside through my blogging eye, always thinking "I should do a post about this...". I've been...
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Bluebirds
On January 30th, the high here was 8ºF (-13ºC). When you have the only unfrozen water source around -- compliments of a birdbath heater -- you get to see some interesting things when it's very cold....
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Bamboo Chop!
I've been contemplating a drastic chop of one of my bamboos for several months. Since cutting a large, established plant to the ground is an emotionally difficult thing to do -- probably physically...
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Nine-year anniversary: best of INWIG 2018
According to Blogger I made my first blog post on March 5, 2010 which means today is my nine-year anniversary! One of the main reasons for creating this blog was so I'd document everything I did in...
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Eastern Red Bat
I usually avoid putting spoilers into my post titles, but since I post so infrequently these days I thought I'd get right to the point. A couple of weeks ago I was doing some winter damage assessment...
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Catching Up: Japanese Maple
It's been a while since I've posted, but I've missed sharing some of my garden happenings this past summer. So I'm doing a series of catch-up posts to show you the highlights... ...starting with my...
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Catching Up: Tomato Plants!
It's been a few years since I've bothered to grow any edibles, even though in my opinion one of the best things about summer gardening is a homegrown tomato. The deer and woodchucks and inconvenience...
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Catching Up: Luna Moth
Back in early August I got a text from my neighbor, asking if I knew what this thing was on her tree: She had sent a blurry phone camera image, but I knew exactly what it was. As I hurried over with my...
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Catching Up: Less is More
For a couple of years now I've contemplated a fairly drastic change in the garden, but I could just never bring myself to make it happen. Until this past July that is, when one day I decided enough was...
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The Pond this Summer
This was a good year for the pond. It had a few rough years recently, but I put a little effort into it this year and I think it shows. This shot was taken in early September, and you can see that I've...
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The Front Garden, September 2019
I thought that it would be a good time to show you the front garden -- the view that my neighbors get, and what I see when I pull up to the house each day. You'll notice a lot of bamboo. It's been over...
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Pennisetum: Vertigo vs Princess
A few years ago I grew Pennisetum Vertigo (cultivar name 'Tift 8'), a large, purple grass with wide leaves. I loved this grass, but alas, I did not overwinter it successfully one year -- I think it...
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Catching Up: End of Summer
Since we're squarely in Winter's grasp now, it seems a great time to look back four to six weeks to appreciate the end of summer 2019. Ah, those were lovely days, warm and sunny and dry. The perfect...
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Something New
Not only have I not been blogging about the garden for the past year (or a little more), I've also not been doing much gardening. I've been doing something different. *** Sure I've been doing the...
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