Garden Madness, Part the Fourth

[nonelvis]

I took a short break today from the HTML hell that is my life to take a few photos before some of the blooms I most wanted to capture disappeared entirely.







I completely failed to get shots of the Knockout while it was covered in blooms, so this is what I had to settle for. Once I prune the sucker, though, it will bloom again, and will continue to do so as long as I deadhead it. I love this rose so much.




The deciduous azalea is the last of the three azaleas to bloom. It's just about done for the season. When it's in full bloom, it has a faint and very pleasant cinnamon scent. I love the ridiculous little tendrils on its flowers.




Every now and then I take a photo that truly looks great. This is one of them. It's my only surviving dwarf lavender plant.




Astoundingly, I got two really great shots in this session, and this is the other one. While hunting for the right angle on the azalea, I noticed a snail hanging out on the giant rudbeckia. The little guy had climbed a foot and a half off the ground to get to this spot. He actually had two friends on nearby leaves at about the same height. I was pretty impressed, really -- these are some daredevil snails.




And finally, the first radishes from the garden. The purple one on the left is going into a salad tonight. It's extremely sharp and tangy, which is good, because I like a kick-ass radish.

That's it for this installment of the Garden Madness. The full Flickr set of all garden photos, as always, can be found here.

Comments

[mmancuso.livejournal.com]

I've eaten a fresh radish. Fresh radishes are great, just before the top of your head is blown off. Store radishes are absolutely ruined for me now.
--mm

[nonelvis]

columbina and I feel the same way about store-bought carrots now that we've had the CSA ones. I'm growing some myself as well, because god forbid we not have enough fresh carrots when they start coming in. I'll have to save some for you.

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

How do the radishes go with escargot?

Actually, I thought snails were supposed to be garden pests. Are they not?

[nonelvis]

Like weeds, they're only garden pests if they show up where you don't want them to. If they were on any of my vegetables or produce, I'd get rid of them, but it will take them a very long time to do damage to that giant rudbeckia, if at all. The plant will be 6' tall by the end of the summer!