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What’s in your gardens this month

2 types of Phlox paniculata (Jeana + unknown variegated) + Calamintha nepeta "Montrose White". PHOTO COURTESY OF BRIDGIT DAVIS

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It’s August and the gardens around Winchester continue to deliver. We asked you to send us photos of whatever is growing in your garden and you sent us quite a few.

Philippa Ferridge wrote, "I grow a wide variety of dahlias for cutting and for pollinators. The big dinner plate dahlias are a bit slow for me this year but these early bloomers are beloved by the bees. This one is Dahlia Totally Tangerine. PHOTO BY PHILIPPA FERRIDGE

If you missed out, you can still send us a photo. Send ONE photo as an attachment to editor@winchesternews.org and put “Garden Photo” in the subject line. Tell us what it is, for those of us who don’t know their peas from their petunias!

Cardinal flower photo by Rachna Jha.
PHOTO COURTESY OF RAJAGOPAL SRIPERUMBUDUR
Anemone photo by Gloria Legvold
Hanging planter from Anne-Marie Scholer, including a "sport petunia that seeded itself from a previous year"
Tomato, onions and basil by August Westner
Liguria dentata (rugwort or leopardplant)/Photo by Charlene Band.
Blue hydrangea in the rain by Joanna Eastman
Cleome by James Pidacks
Photo by Kate Rinard.
Monarda by Joy Cass.
Susan Saidman's Cherokee Purple, Early Girl and Honeycomb tomatoes
Erin Rose's roses (!) with a pollinator.
Brooke Stevenson says she's harvested about 30 cucumbers from four vines.
David Feigenbaum's Joe-pye-weed (Eupatorium)

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