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Aug 3, 2014 10:04 AM CST
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Name: Julia
Washington State (Zone 7a)
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Just noticed there was no new thread for August.

Sedums are starting to bloom
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Aug 4, 2014 2:15 PM CST
Name: Mary Stella
Chester, VA (Zone 7b)
Dahlias Canning and food preservation Lilies Peonies Permaculture Ponds
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When the rain abates I will go out and snap some August flowers. Mostly lilies and sedum and dahlias.
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Aug 7, 2014 8:16 AM CST
Name: Jewell
South Puget Sound (Zone 7a)
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Rain? I've forgotten what rain looks like. Such a warm summer with 80 F have necessitated buying some summer clothes Rolling on the floor laughing Some of my late blooming perennials aren't doing as well as most years because I am not used to watering.
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Aug 15, 2014 10:26 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Julia
Washington State (Zone 7a)
Hydrangeas Photo Contest Winner 2018 Garden Photography Region: Pacific Northwest Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Forum moderator
Plant Database Moderator I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Dog Lover Sempervivums Container Gardener Foliage Fan
So busy watering here it was nice to see the rain and cool off. Love the late flowers. What is the 2nd picture? An Anenone? I just bought a new one called Pocahontas like yours with the double petals.
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2 of my coleus containers.

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Can't remember the name of this? Anyone know. I have enjoyed the foliage.


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Last of the daylilies . They were nice this year with the warm nights.
My hanging containers were a bust this year. I'm going to have to look for good combinations ideas next year to copy.


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Couple of my sempervivums with a bit of color. Soon as the cool nights hit they will start tuning colors again. The heat is hard on these guys.
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Aug 16, 2014 11:48 AM CST
Name: woofie
NE WA (Zone 5a)
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Jewell, what is that last photo you posted? Looks like a Malva of some sort?
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Aug 16, 2014 2:27 PM CST
Name: Deb
Planet Earth (Zone 8b)
Region: Pacific Northwest Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Garden Ideas: Master Level
Julia, your mystery plant looks like Variegated Water Figwort (Scrophularia auriculata 'Variegata') to me. I recognize the teeny little flowers, which are hummingbird magnets in my garden.
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Aug 16, 2014 8:24 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Julia
Washington State (Zone 7a)
Hydrangeas Photo Contest Winner 2018 Garden Photography Region: Pacific Northwest Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Forum moderator
Plant Database Moderator I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Dog Lover Sempervivums Container Gardener Foliage Fan
Thank you Deb. You are right. I tried to get a picture of those but no luck yet.
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Aug 17, 2014 5:54 PM CST
Name: Jewell
South Puget Sound (Zone 7a)
Cottage Gardener Dragonflies Ferns Hellebores Permaculture Region: Pacific Northwest
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woofie said:Jewell, what is that last photo you posted? Looks like a Malva of some sort?


Woolfie, the plant is a Malva sylvestris 'Zebrina' (Dwarf Hollyhock), and is an annual. Once you have the seeds you have the plant forever.
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Aug 17, 2014 10:46 PM CST
Name: woofie
NE WA (Zone 5a)
Charter ATP Member Garden Procrastinator Greenhouse Dragonflies Plays in the sandbox I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database!
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Looks much nicer than the Malva sylvestris I grew a few years back, but they weren't that particular cultivar. Very nice! And yeah, hollyhocks and their ilk are like that! I'm still fighting them after 10 years!
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Aug 23, 2014 7:03 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Julia
Washington State (Zone 7a)
Hydrangeas Photo Contest Winner 2018 Garden Photography Region: Pacific Northwest Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Forum moderator
Plant Database Moderator I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Dog Lover Sempervivums Container Gardener Foliage Fan
I still have a pink Malva that pops up in the yard. A few things from yesterday.
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containers have filled in. This is a few weeks after a hair cut.
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None of my hanging baskets have don great this year. The first one has been a favorite but, the fuchsia need to be pinched more! The others the center croaked for some reason. Next year!!
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Seed petunias and love this coleus. The tag is under the foliage some place but could not locate it.

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Sea Holly is turning a beautiful shade of purple.

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Sedum starting to show.
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Aug 24, 2014 9:52 AM CST
Name: woofie
NE WA (Zone 5a)
Charter ATP Member Garden Procrastinator Greenhouse Dragonflies Plays in the sandbox I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database!
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oooh, like that Sea Holly!
Confidence is that feeling you have right before you do something really stupid.
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Aug 24, 2014 10:39 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Julia
Washington State (Zone 7a)
Hydrangeas Photo Contest Winner 2018 Garden Photography Region: Pacific Northwest Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Forum moderator
Plant Database Moderator I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Dog Lover Sempervivums Container Gardener Foliage Fan
Thanks Woofie! The color is much better in person.
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Look whats starting to bloom! Fall is really here.
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Aug 28, 2014 4:20 PM CST
Name: Jewell
South Puget Sound (Zone 7a)
Cottage Gardener Dragonflies Ferns Hellebores Permaculture Region: Pacific Northwest
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The yard feels very messy as I have done pruning and moved phlox that were encroaching into the paths. Also moved a mass of mini bearded iris. The front ivy hedges got there severe cut back in the front yard. The summer heathers are about finished blooming.
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There are a few different yellow flowers blooming, squash, calendula, nasturtiums, rebeckia, false sunflowers and real ones too.

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Then there are the fall crocus and anenomes with a second bloom of clematis and the obedient plant

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It has been a great summer for winter squash. Most will be going to the food bank since I am more into growing it than we are into eating it. The butternut has certainly been sweet and savory basted with olive oil and roasted on the grill. I have been careful harvesting so that the turbans can finish maturing and hardening off and the bees can continue to coat themselves in pollen. I have seen as many as five to a blossom in the afternoon.

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It looks like the tomatoes are going to continue ripening until Thanksgiving. We have been having them and cukes everyday for one or more meals.

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What's with the sunflowers though? I planted a mixed seed pack behind the Hugelkultur. They vary in height from 2-25 feet tall. Crazy!


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Aug 28, 2014 8:15 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Julia
Washington State (Zone 7a)
Hydrangeas Photo Contest Winner 2018 Garden Photography Region: Pacific Northwest Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Forum moderator
Plant Database Moderator I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Dog Lover Sempervivums Container Gardener Foliage Fan
It sure has been a good tomato season!! Hurray! Love all you pictures. That's a ton of squash!! Hurray! Obedient plant is so beautiful, I have one too.
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Aug 28, 2014 10:34 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Julia
Washington State (Zone 7a)
Hydrangeas Photo Contest Winner 2018 Garden Photography Region: Pacific Northwest Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Forum moderator
Plant Database Moderator I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Dog Lover Sempervivums Container Gardener Foliage Fan
Squeeze a few more pictures in for August. Can't believe summer is almost over.
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Cut a tree down here this spring and I removed a big viburnum. Replacing with plants that have more than one season of color.

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