Best August Ever

I love it when the plants touch across the garage path.  

It's been a great August: sunny, not too hot, ample moisture.

Without the distraction of lots of things blooming, I take quiet pleasure in the shapes of the plants and troughs.

The front "trough" is actually a concrete post footing that I dug up on our property after the post rotted out.  I get so many compliments on that one.  

Real tufa in the bottom of the photo, waiting until spring and new troughs.

Jersey Shore Week

Still, there's this...

After a trip to the Midwest, after a terrible week of heat, after the meltdown of my personal life, there's still this foaming front yard out my car window when I come home.

Heat-Addled Blogging

The mix of colors in this bed gets a little better each year.

 The party's over for this semp.

 The fleet sets sail tomorrow (client is coming to pick them up).

Ninety-five predicted for Monday?  Really?  That's just rude.

July Pink

Knautia macedonia

Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus'

(the best pink coneflower)

Semps

Hell Strip Eryngium

As my neighbor said, "you walk by your yard and you can tell something's up".

This plant was probably the best $3 I ever spent at a plant sale.  Tagged as eryngium alpinum, it self-seeds politely and is tough as nails.  

How many plants would grow at the corner of the driveway and the curb in full sun?

Chelsea show

Garden designer, photographer, fellow plant geek, and neighbor Barbara Bour graciously asked me to cast a couple planters for her show of garden photos at her hair stylist's space in Chelsea.  Barbara even picked awesome material for the planters.

The show is up through Friday 6/21: 

Chrystoph Marten Salon

511 West 25th St. Suite 606

New York, NY 10001