What Is In My July Garden

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Here’s a babaco papaya. I’m keeping it on my covered porch. It doesn’t like my sun and usual super hot summers. It’s a mountain growing plant where it’s from. All the rain and cooler temperatures have kept it happy on the porch.
I brought the strawberry bags under the porch as well. I soak them in a bucket every few days. I’m hoping to have mature plants over the winter.
Random wet weather mushrooms.
I’ve pulled the shade cloth up so the cherries have more sun. I’m not sure, but I think I may be able to skip the shade cloth now that their root systems are more robust.
Canna lilies. These are a short variety with more interesting blooms. But the hummers prefer the wild ones I have.
Big floppy hibiscus. These are a tropical variety and are probably ten years old. I bring them inside for the winter.
Some traditional crepe myrtles my neighbors gave me several years ago. I still haven’t found a spot for them.
My new “Christmas” loquat that I got to replace the pear. It needs to go into something bigger until I get my poor dead pear cut down.
A little rain damage on the cannas.

My fig tree is full of figs. I’m having a bad year for my garden. I just haven’t had time for it. I’m going to go on vacation in a few days to see friends and loved ones, so my husband will have to deal with the figs. There will be an entire tree that will have rotten fruit and get hornets all over them. He needs some exercise. I’m sure he’ll be fine.

See you out in Arizona to kick back with best buddies and mentors!

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3 thoughts on “What Is In My July Garden”

    1. I don’t think these are a hybrid. It self sows, the flower is pretty insignificant and the plant can get taller than I am. Maybe it is a hybrid, but I got the seed from a seed train years ago and that’s what it was labeled as. But, it was a seed train and not a nursery, so who knows.

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      1. Oh, it sounds like a feral Canna musifolia, which is great for foliage, but not much like the species that are native to Florida to the coast of Texas.

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