Some of my garden's best for 2006. What about yours??

[Chief]

A selection of my personal gardening best this year...in no particular order.

Bee balm in a whiskey tub. This was hummingbird central all summer long. We had at least three that visited every day, several times a day, because this bee balm is just incredibly vigorous. Next year it will have it's own deep bed, full of compost and steer manure, so we'll really pack in the hummingbirds then.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/Summer%20Flowers/beebalm3.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/Summer%20Flowers/beebalm4.jpg


New flower beds, new zinnias.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/Summer%20Flowers/almostthere.jpg

The new "Good Neighbor" fence we built this summer between my yard and my neighbor over in the Morningside neighborhood. The gravel steps are new as well. We got tired of hopping the fence to borrow each other's tools, so...the old fence had to be fixed, and we got creative.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/Summer%20Flowers/troybilthorse.jpg

I was an excellent year for Martha Washington Geraniums...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/Summer%20Flowers/marthawashington1.jpg

The columbine did well too...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/Summer%20Flowers/columbine.jpg

I landscape with a lot of culinary herbs, not just because they are great to cook with, (and they are!) but they look great too. This is thyme in full bloom...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/Summer%20Flowers/frenchthyme.jpg

And the old climbing rose that's been at this house forever, never fails to produce some velvety red flowers.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/Summer%20Flowers/oldclimber2.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/Summer%20Flowers/oldclimber1.jpg

This is my pre-historic sized ornamental rhubarb. You can hide small children under those leaves...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/Summer%20Flowers/ornamentalrhubarb.jpg

Some of our hot little rose moss in another tub...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/Summer%20Flowers/rosemoss2.jpg


So now it's mid September, and we're waiting for that first frosty morning that will take the impatients, the basil and all of the other tender annuals. I've already composted a cubic yard of spent petunias, and the impatients will follow soon. My wife wants to hit the stores this week for a bunch of spring bulbs, so we can get them in over the next month. The sprinklers are off for the season, and I'll blow them out with compressed air this week.

Heck, I even need to order up another cord of stove wood too. Won't be long until the cold nights are back for a while.

It's been an excellent Summer.

[psumom]

I've never grown herbs, so I never knew that thyme was so pretty. Very impressive.

[Chief]

It's nice to have handy if yer making stew...go clip off a bunch, rinse it, tie it together, and toss it in the pot to simmer....

;D

[karma]

Nice Chief.* Will have to down size a few of our lovelies before we can share. Okay, let's try this again!