Despite my best efforts, my garden has too few late summer flowers.\u00a0 For years I have been shy about putting in enough dahlias, which will bloom their hearts out given a bit of sunny space and water.\u00a0 They come in so many sizes, shapes and colors that even those, like me, who disdain the flashy “dinner plate” types can find a sympatico dahlia.<\/p>\n
I have also been backwards about phlox, those tall, fragrant summer stalwarts.\u00a0 In the past I have made excuses for my garden’s chronic phlox deprivation by saying that I couldn’t cope with many varieties’ susceptibility to powdery mildew.\u00a0 However, I tolerate blackspot on some of my roses and rust on a few of the holly hocks, so it is not fastidiousness that holds me back.\u00a0 It is mostly force of habit.\u00a0 Consistency, however is the hobgoblin of the small-minded gardener, so next year I aim to be a little less consistent.\u00a0 This fall I’ll add a few hardy phlox, which should be in fine shape by this time next summer.\u00a0 Come spring I’ll put in many more dahlias.\u00a0 Late summer doldrums will be banished from the garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Despite my best efforts, my garden has too few late summer flowers.\u00a0 For years I have been shy about putting in enough dahlias, which will bloom their hearts out given a bit of sunny space and water.\u00a0 They come in so many sizes, shapes and colors that even those, like me, who disdain the flashy … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2,3],"tags":[206,209,161,208,207],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-spring","category-summer","tag-dahlias","tag-fragrant-flowers","tag-late-summer-flowers","tag-late-summer-gardening","tag-phlox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}