Down To Earth Garden Club

The front of my home is shaded by a majestic row of Maples. I can't get anything colorful to grow there.  I wonder how these would do between my hostas? 

I planted an annual variety pack of sunflowers this year. 

I wonder if I plant the seeds will they grow back next year?

I know annual means NO, but why wouldn't planting the seeds produce flowers next year?

We discussed some new ideas for the library, Mary's bed, Rumbarger, the Reitz Theater, the City Building and the window boxes. We did not have time to review the walkway or the embankment beds.

Last night we had veggies in various forms from Jan's garden and decided to do lunch and a garden tour Saturday.

We will be meeting at the DuBois Library on August 25 at 12p.m. for lunch and a tour of the beds. This will give us the opportunity to exchange ideas and get some fresh perspective on the beds we tend. We'll do as many beds around town as we have time for. The Parker Dam butterfly bed was deemed too far to travel.
Everyone is welcome. You need not be a member of the club to join the tour.

Monica picked up roses on sale. What she isn't going to use will be at the meeting tonight. I've got dibs on some of them for John's bed and maybe Mary's bed. Anywhere else.
The daylilies will also be at the meeting so we can decide how to handle them.

I think it depends on how close to being ripe they are. We have such cold nights out here that we have trouble ripening them too. The hot sun seems to make them sweeter if you happen to have any hot sun.

No that is the one from DuBois believe it or not. It is growing in my back yard under some white pines.
Its mate is in the corral on the Brady Street lot. It has coleus and asparagus fern. Ted Lyons had some gorgeous coleus this year.
I did have some pictures from Arizona that used coleus in pots, I think. You wouldn't think that they would do well in the hot sun.
I like them because they are colorful even when they aren't blooming.

I just have to comment that only 3 people showed up for this community wide clean-up. One was the woman who organized it and has been organizing them for the Chamber of Commerce for several years and the other two were garden club members. We did what we could.

Do you think they loose anything by table ripening them? We usually end up doing that at the end of the season because we run out of warm weather.