{"id":1138,"date":"2016-09-08T07:31:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2016-11-04T10:56:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:56:51","slug":"the-yard-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/the-yard-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yard in August"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tigerAugust was a beautiful month, while the\u00a0garden was still full of new growth, we also began to see signs of the end of summer. Flower buds started to seed as fall air moves in. I wasn’t able to spend a ton of time enjoying the garden\u00a0or doing yard work this August, but I was lucky enough to be out working one morning when this extraordinary creature paid a visit.<\/p>\n

It’s a Tiger Swallowtail ‘Papilio glaucus’ Butterfly and she was quite gorgeous! While the Tiger Swallowtail is a common butterfly in the midwest, this was a rare sighting in our backyard. Exciting to say the least, it was a lot of fun to follow it around as it flew from flower to flower. \u00a0It was around 9am in the morning and my day was made, if only all mornings could start with such beauty.<\/p>\n

\"tigerFlowers that began to bloom in\u00a0July continued to grow while also many began to fade away into seed. We have a dense\u00a0patch of Black Eyed Susans that were bursting with flowers for the past month, across the yard from the main bunch, there is\u00a0a different variety which grows\u00a0taller with spindly stems and smaller flowers. These guys arrived just as the others were on their way out.<\/p>\n

\"Midwest<\/p>\n

\"MidwestThe sage bush that never dies is still going strong. It has been going strong since last year and is sprawling into the walkway. It flowered a couple times this summer and I was able to find\u00a0a few baby plants to transplant\u00a0in other areas\u00a0of the yard. I love having sage in the yard, it smells great, low maintenance, has pretty little\u00a0purple\u00a0flowers and delightfully soft textured leaves – an all round winner in my opinion.<\/p>\n

\"SageThe Balloon Flowers are finished flowering and are now beginning to seed. I have collected these seeds in the past but have not had luck with propagating more in this way. I think I will give it another shot anyway. Balloon Flowers are possibly\u00a0the most interesting plant to bloom every year in our yard.<\/p>\n

\"BalloonThe Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ has been slowly preparing for it’s show and is finally starting to bloom. This years flowers\u00a0look to be rather pale. Flowers of this plant can be a range of pinks, but I think the most common are a deeper autumn pink, in fact the parent plant of these propagations flaunt a much darker flower than these, so it must have to do with soil quality, our soil could definitely use a boost. \u00a0The stone crop plants in general are a desirable addition to any garden in my opinion, they look vibrant and healthy throughout the entire growing season.<\/p>\n

\"Sedum<\/p>\n

\"SedumJust\u00a0a small glimpse of what’s been going on in the garden this August. If you’re interesting in looking back to the previous months, check of the monthly reviews here:<\/p>\n

The Yard in July<\/a><\/p>\n

The Yard in June<\/a><\/p>\n

The Yard in May<\/a><\/p>\n

The Yard in April<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

August was a beautiful month, while the\u00a0garden was still full of new growth, we also began to see signs of the end of summer. Flower buds started to seed as fall air moves in. I wasn’t able to spend a ton of time enjoying the garden\u00a0or doing yard work this August, but I was lucky […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[123,318,58,56],"tags":[274,270,279,98,271,273,263,272,277,105,191,238,278,276,275],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turningmoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}