Late summer pics

Just a quick recap of what is going on out in the back yard in mid-September (need to weed!):
Vegetable garden with the last of the tomatoes, marigolds, rosemary and broccoli and beet seeds. B7

Front porch garden with marigolds, sedum, and rose of sharon still blooming.  Red gaillardia still hanging in there. B6

 Garage side garden - needs some serious weeding, but the hostas are doing well. B4

 Daylily bed B5. It really was just all daylilies!

 Back fence line - B10

 North fence line B11. After I removed some thorny shrub.  I thought it was a rose of some sort, but the blooms were just tiny white flowers - definitely not worth the thorny mess. 

 Screen porch ferns B1

 New japanese holly and chysanthemums. B2

 Family room bed B3

Lily seeds thrown in

As an experiment, I scraped the seeds out of the lily seed pods that Julie gave me.  I threw some around the lily plants that Ann and Mac planted, then some around the newly planted Japanese Holly.  I just need to remember that come spring so I don't yank them all out as weeds.

Finally moved those ferns

And replaced them with Compact Japanese Holly (Ilex glabra) and accessorized with red and orange chrysanthemums.  The ferns moved into the shade by the sandbox. Much better!

Bed B2 Frying Ferns

Late April

Early June: Needs some weeding, but otherwise these ferns look healthy.  Too bad a week later they were brown from too much sun!

The previous owner planted ferns on the south side of our screened porch - IN FULL SUN.  Now, in mid-June they are fried!  I need to move these asap.  Oh well, I guess I need to make another trip to the nursery for some replacements! And where to move the ferns...hmmmm....perhaps by the sandbox....?