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August 15, 2015 by: RidgetopFarm&Garden

Bloom Day – August 2015

Ridgetop Farm & Garden | Bloom Day | August 2015

Here it is already. August’s Bloom Day. Our flowerbeds are not impressed with this crazy, hot, dry summer we’re having. I’m not impressed with it either.

The flowerbeds in general look quite crummy. But there are a few, very few, plants that have powered through the weather and are blooming.

 

FRONT YARD

These two photos are literally of the only plants blooming in the front yard. It’s lookin’ pretty dead out there.
Ridgetop Farm & Garden | Bloom Day | August 2015

The pond area still has a few things in bloom, though. In fact, the marigolds just recently started taking off.
Ridgetop Farm & Garden | Bloom Day | August 2015

 

SHADE GARDEN

Not long after I planted the impatiens and violas some of our chickens scratched and pecked the area, digging at bird seed that had fallen. It has taken all summer, but those plants have finally came back and are blooming.
Ridgetop Farm & Garden | Bloom Day | August 2015

 

BIRD VILLAGE

The bird village is not in good shape. It has received very little water over the summer and it shows. However, there are a few random blooms spread about.
Ridgetop Farm & Garden | Bloom Day | August 2015

There is a lot of tan and brown going on right now.
Ridgetop Farm & Garden | Bloom Day | August 2015

There is not a lot going on around the pond, either. There are a few pickerel weeds & geraniums holding on, but that’s about it. The cardinal meadowlark doesn’t seem to mind the lack of flowers.
Bloom Day Aug2015 bird village3

The meadow still has some blooms trying to make it through the season.
Ridgetop Farm & Garden | Bloom Day | August 2015

 

GARDEN

Left: Inside the garden fence I planted an area with hundreds of sunflowers. This is the one that made it. It’s pretty, but quite underwhelming. I think right after I planted the seeds birds devoured them before they even had a chance to germinate. Boo!
Right: Calendula that I planted last year reseeded and looks fabulous this year.
Ridgetop Farm & Garden | Bloom Day | August 2015

 

Well, this summer was kind of a bust in the flowerbed department. I’m glad we get to try again next year.

 

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