This summer has gone by so quickly! It seems so much has happened to distract me from the garden!
The heat and humidity has forced me to stay inside. Gus’s cancer treatments have forced me to only plant a vegetable garden this year and not the hundreds of annual around my half-acre lot which I usually plant. It’s a good thing as I do not need to water daily and endure the ticks and mosquitoes.
So I have been enjoying the gardens and plantings around Raleigh. The above planting in Cameron Village Shopping Center of alocasia, coleus, and lantana.
A blooming and fruiting pink banana at JC Raulston Arboretum at NCSU.
The farmers market at NorthHills Shopping Center.
Naked ladies (lycoris squamiger) at JC Raulston
Rudbeckia lanciniata in my garden.
Jewel weed in my garden.
A pale pink rose-of-Sharon in my garden.
A small hydrangea bloom in my garden.
Monarda Jacob Cline in my garden.
Tiger lily in my garden.
Pineapple lily in my garden.
Hardy wandering Jew in my garden. (Tinantia pringlei ‘Panther’)
Woodland phlox in my garden.
Perennial sweet pea in my garden.
Pineapple lily
Unfortunately, one of the cats, Brody, was diagnosed with lung and stomach cancer and was euthanized.
Gus is still continuing his chemo for the lung cancer he was diagnosed with last winter and it has slowed its grown. It is expensive so I am not sure how long I will continue to afford it but for now we continue ….
With temperatures near 100f the Fiat 500 becomes very hot when sitting in a parking lot all day! Whew!!
It’s hot!
Arthur in the Garden! 