High Summer in Alice’s Garden

Plants that look good despite hungry beetles

Alice Fleurkens is welcome us into her Sweaburg , Ontario , garden today .

It has been a spoilt twelvemonth for bugs — thousands ofJapanese beetlesit seems — and they eat on , and eat . It is discouraging , but despite it all we have flowers .

fortunately , the mallet leave this elephant ’s ear(Colocasiaesculenta , Zones 7–10 or as a supply ship bulb ) alone .

This garden is under a maple Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . It ’s kind of weedy properly now because we have been forth and have had a fair amount of rain in that metre , even though it was quite dry when we make home .

Thedahliasin this spot have not done well , although some others in different spot fix much bigger . I think therabbitskept eating them in the natural spring . I have been gather up handblown glass and chandelier crystal . It is fun watching them in the Dominicus .

An orangezinnia(Zinnia elegans , annual ) reaches for the sky .

My riot of color in the front garden right now admit somemums ; they should be nice next month . I bought them in the gloam , and after they were done flowering I cut off all thedead flowersand engraft them . Some live on , and some did not .

Here ’s a two - day catch of beetle . Knocking Japanese mallet into a bucketful of urine like this is a pesticide - free room to reduce their numbers in the garden . hold up the bucket under the plants and they ’ll just drop straight in .

I enjoy this yellow grass(Hakonechloamacra , Zones 5–9 ) , which seems to do great in the sun .

Foliage and bloom provide color in this garden . The creeping phlox(Phloxsubulata , Zones 2–8 ) has an ant nest in it , and so do many of the coral bells(Heucherahybrids , Zones 4–8 ) ; I ’m not indisputable what to do about that . Theground coverin the bottom get out , fleece flower(Persicariaaffinis , Zones 5–8 ) , is one of my favorites . It ’s low maintenance and easy to hold in , and it has beautiful fall color .

The smoke in the front with the interesting cherry foliage is ‘ Burgundy Bunny’pennisetum ( Pennisetum‘Burgundy Bunny ’ , Zones 5–9 ) . A gardening friend down the road gifted it to me .

genus Funka are covering the bare bottom of thisevergreen . I found them for that reason , and they fill off like wildfire . They seem to get it on that pip .

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