Happy Sunday everyone! Hope you’re enjoying the weekend. I’m still trying to get my yard in order. Lots of work still to do. I mowed the lawn and limed it. Put down a little more soil and grass seed. Did more weeding.
But in the flower department, the lilacs bloomed, thank goodness, and the phlox and the red and white bleeding hearts look really great. Both white and pink lilies of the valley are blooming. Some of the flowers in my big perennial border along the back of my house look like they’re getting ready to bloom.
Do you garden? Let me know what you grow if you do!
Here are this week’s posts from Beauty Blog Coalition. Mine is my review of my April and May ipsy bags in case you missed it during the week.
- Lola’s Secret Beauty Blog: Lipstick Queen Vesuvius Liquid Lipstick in Vesuvian Candy boast the perfect formula and utter pink perfection. If you love liquid lipsticks, and a perfect pink pout, then this beauty needs to be on your list!
- Beauty by Miss L: Missha is well known Korean cosmetics brand and this week Leelo from Beauty by Miss L shared her opinion of Missha M Signature Real Complete BB Cream.
- I Know all the Words: It’s a cute brush bulletin with the adorable Sephora Collection BYOB Breakups to Makeup Brush Set
- Atlanta Beauty Expert: You are going to love the peachy-pink shades in this makeup collection! They add just the right amount of color to reflect the healthy glow of summer skin.
- Never Say Die Beauty: Allison has been overwhelmed by subscription boxes lately! But here are her two most recent ipsy bags: April and May. Even the makeup bags are adorable!
- Be Happy And Buy Polish: In need of a beautiful polish for summer? Check out this 10-piece collection by Polish ‘M!
- Notes from My Dressing Table: Treat yourself to a little radiant luxury. Erika shares her notes on the stunning Burberry Spring/Summer 2016 Runway Palette.
- ProcrastiNails: If you’re looking for some bright and bold nail shades for summer look no further than the Ceramic Glaze Limited Edition Botanical Oasis Collection!
- Collective Beauty: An affordable drugstore face of the day!
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I’m just trying to find the daylilies. The weeding got away from us this spring, and argh… lol. The shade bed gets the most attention since it’s the one with the finicky plants, but it’s become clear that efforts must be diverted for a bit!
Like the new look here, by the way! 😀
Thank you, Rach!! So happy to hear from you! I was wondering how your daylilies were doing this year. Some of my favorites are now in almost total shade, and I’m trying to figure out where to move them to. My formerly full sun yard is now much much shadier as the trees have grown. What do you have in your shade garden? I’ve got a couple of hosta gardens but I could use some more ideas!!
We like hostas too, the more the merrier. There’s a nice patch of chocolate chip ajuga on the back side where the soil isn’t so good and we just haven’t dealt with it yet. The rest of the bed is mostly native, a mix of wood poppies, columbine, bluebells, bloodroot, dutchman’s breeches, snowdrops, and violets. The red trillium decided to expand this year (yay, finally!) and the white one is at last large enough that I don’t worry about stepping on it by accident. There are some cranky ferns here and there (I think they don’t like the soil as much?) and a couple of dogtooth violets that sort of do their thing and then sort of not. No clue why they’re not really happy since they grow wild around here with everything else we’ve got and the rest does fine… We’ve got to move a bleeding heart yet, and just planted some shade tolerant coral bells and a bishops hat. I’m itching to add some hellebores.
What do you currently have going on in your shade areas?
Rach, you have an amazing variety of shade plants! Red trillium, wow! I need to get some Bloodroot – I have only recently learned about it. I’ve got columbine, Solomon’s Seal, hostas, lilies of the valley, hellebores, astilbe – more or less the usual suspects! I know you know all this but here’s an interesting article I came upon this morning. http://www.rodalesorganiclife.com/embrace-shade-create-diverse-and-beautiful-gardens It listed daylilies as a shade plant, and my day lilies that are in formerly sunny areas of my yard that are now shady aren’t blooming. Wondering if they need some fertilizer? I thought it was the encroaching shade.
Nah, none of ours do well in shade either, so I don’t think it’s just your soil. From other articles I’ve read they’re just partially shade tolerant, and need at least a half day of sun. Apparently some of the darker varieties might like a small amount of shade though, just because if they get too hot they’ll wilt faster, as the darker colours of the flowers absorb more heat. I don’t know about Stella however… It is by far my least favourite daylily, but that beast could probably grow on the moon. 😛
Astilbe hates us! We’ve gone through several. Plant them, they come back the next year and look great… and then poof, nothing. I have the same luck with the foxglove from one of the other beds. It does well for a while and then disappears, never to be seen or heard from again. Both of those plants hate me!
I think the bloodroot has decided it wants to be an elephant ear. This year it just got massive. It’s over a foot tall, which is much larger than I’ve ever seen it in any natural area around here. It’s trying to eat the dutchman’s breeches! We’re going to have to separate them.
I highly recommend you get a trillium. But seeing as it’s my state’s official wildflower, I might just be a little biased. 😉