Photos from the sixteenth week in the garden are up, spanning June 27-July 6, and have been tagged “Week Sixteen” in my Gardening 2010, Part Three album in my Picasa Web Albums. To see the original bed photos — in a slideshow from week to week — visit my Gardening 2010 photo album on Facebook.
A lot of rain this week, especially after a category 2 hurricane hit Mexico. Here's some soggy cosmos.
The rain brought the critters, too. I found several of these catapillars, and they ate most of the surving tomato plant Kim's uncle gave us.
Here's a shot of the original bed. A lot of the taller cosmos and zinnia have fallen, and the zinnia are now crowding out the portulaca.
A handful of bachelor buttons bloomed right after all of the storms.
This is the only Monarda ‘Bergamo’ that has made it to maturity to flower. All of the others I transplanted, as seedlings, into the bed, but they didn't make it. There were only a few that got big enough to transplant. Won't be buying this again.
The homegrown coleus from seed is doing very well in various pots on the porch.
These black-eyed susans — the only thing still left from last year's father's day gift from Kim and Corina — are going wild.