Traveling eGarden Journal: 08/01/2005

This spider heads over to attampt removing a cherry leaf from its web. when that failed, I watched it scrap the web to start over!

Phlox with swallowtail(?) butterfly

Coreopsis, Obedient plant, and Monarda with a backdrop of yucca leaves

Rose of Sharon

White Flower Farm: How to plant and grow Daylilies - Hemerocallis

The White Flower Farm offers general fertilizing instructions:

White Flower Farm: How to plant and grow Daylilies - Hemerocallis: "Most established plants grow best if fertilized with a light hand. We fertilize borders, specimen trees, and shrubs just once—in early spring. We apply a balanced, granular fertilizer (such as 10-10-10) to give a light but even coverage of the soil. For most plants in most soils, this single feeding is enough."

The White Flower Farm also recommends spring as the time for day lily divisions to spread the wealth.

White Flower Farm: How to plant and grow Daylilies - Hemerocallis

The White Flower Farm provides a growing guide for each plant the sell on their website. I have had great luck with daylillies both in Conencticut and Maine and have purchased my bulbs from a variety of sources at a variety of costs.

The trick now, especially with so many varieities, is to learn which bloom when and for how long, and when to cut or tie back spent stems. Visit the ubiquitous White Flower Farm of Litchfield, CT to learn more. White Flower Farm: How to plant and grow Daylilies - Hemerocallis: "Hemerocallis (Daylily)"

Photographing gardens

Reviewing the summer's posts and many photos of birds, bees, beebalm and butterflies, I came across links and passages to this photographer's gardens on the Kodak website:

Photographing gardens:

"And don't forget the gardener
Whether you're the gardener or it's a famous personage at a famous garden, no story of a garden is complete without a picture of the gardener. Skip the stiff, posed smile and get the gardener deadheading or weeding or displaying their prized cabbage."

My grand slam for summer 2005. poppy at maplecroft farm, burnham, maine. photo by kate shorey. flower grown by maplecroft farm.

What type of fern is this? "male"? "ostrich"? - central maine woods

Not enough sun, attention, or fertilizer on this cabin side garden

Woods behind my camp - The thick cedar woods both lends it's peacefulness, and occassional eerieness... Last year I heard and saw a deer emerge right from this spot... Me thinks it wanted a drink from the lake.