Sunday, August 7, 2011

dahlia explosion

Compare, if you will, the difference between these two photos of our yard. The first photo was taken at the beginning of June (used in this earlier post), and the second was taken today.

June 2011

August 2011

Notice any major difference? (Okay, I know that our lawn isn't as green as it used to be. And you may notice that currently our bushes are nicely sculpted. Yesterday I woke up from a nap, only to find that J had turned into Edward Scissorhands. He went around our yard for a few hours, trimming everything in sight. The hedges and bushes look great. But those differences between these photos aren't what I have in mind.)

If you look in the back of the photos, in the garden bed by our trellis and rosebush, you'll notice a teeny-tiny green bush on the right side (next to the stepping stones). That bush has exploded over the past few months, recently revealing that it is a dahlia bush:

This plant is huge and it has caught us completely by surprise. It has overpowered some of my little zinnias, and now is starting to infringe upon our stepping-stone rocks. I'm curious to see how big this bush gets by the end of the summer. If dahlias weren't such a gorgeous flower, I would have thought that the owners planted the dahlia starter bush as a practical joke on their unsuspecting tenants.

Don't be surprised if our front door is completely covered in the next few weeks!

On a side note, it's been fun to compare our current flower beds to the picture that I took at the beginning of June. We have some really happy flowers in our yard right now:


3 comments:

ixoj said...

Lovely!

Katherine Griffin said...

Buddy...(shaking head)...we have already seen the outside. I want to see the inside! Inside photos inside photos!

Bryson and Tara said...

Those flowers are so beautiful!

And, it's awfully convenient to have an Edward Scissorhands around the house, I'm sure. :)