rain, rain, go away
Come again some other day.
I've been waiting and waiting for a good day to take pictures of my garden, but the only one we've had in a couple of weeks where it hasn't been overcast and/or raining was on Friday, and I was attending a conference all day. This has been one pitiful June so far -- the local weather forecasters have been calling it Junuary. Our average high this time of year is 70. We've been lucky to crack 60 most days. And it's been gray and raining and raining and gray...
As a result, most of my garden is lush and green, but the flowers are in pretty short supply.
But here's what I've got:
The back garden, bowed under the rain. Mostly green at this stage.
The campanula that's on the lefthand side of the first picture. This thing is seriously gorgeous, I have to say [g]. Whoever hybridized it and grew it and enabled me to purchase it for my garden, thank you.
There's a bunch of foliage in this picture, as well as a few soaked flowers. The red/orange/yellow in front is nemesia, picked up on a whim when I was doing my annual annual purchase this year. Immediately to its right is a lavender covered in buds. It's been covered in buds for at least three weeks, and it just needs some sun to open them all up. Pretty please? Behind that is linaria, in lots of different colors. This is one of my old reliables from seed every year. My garden would not be complete without it. Oh, and the lettuce-y looking leaves behind all that are poppies, which have also been in bud for weeks and are waiting for the sun, too. Something I'm beginning to think is futile.
As my sister queried when she was here, "what are those prehistoric-looking plants?" Hostas! With coral bells in full bloom (I've had hummingbirds dodging the raindrops for them) and the monkshood almost to the top of the fence (it won't bloom till September, but it's so worth the wait).
More prehistoric plants and a bleeding heart, but damn, the containers look sad. I don't think the petunias have put out more than two flowers or an inch in growth in the six weeks since I planted them. The lobelia's doing pretty well, though.
The front flower bed. The white snapdragon was a volunteer. How come it's doing so much better than all the snapdragons I planted, which are about a foot tall? The red-violet is my neighbor's thyme, which has really taken off this year. There are two whites visible. The one by the thyme is a volunteer columbine, the one closer to my front door is dianthus. Oh, and my neighbor has some lovely small red roses that really clash with the thyme in a charming way [g].
A closeup of the hardy geranium (five-lobed foliage) and a pink and white so-called annual dianthus (this is that plant's third year). Also alyssum, carnations, candytuft, johnny-jump-ups, and unopened rosebuds on my fairy rose (these have also been sitting there for several weeks).
I can haz sunshine now, plz???
I've been waiting and waiting for a good day to take pictures of my garden, but the only one we've had in a couple of weeks where it hasn't been overcast and/or raining was on Friday, and I was attending a conference all day. This has been one pitiful June so far -- the local weather forecasters have been calling it Junuary. Our average high this time of year is 70. We've been lucky to crack 60 most days. And it's been gray and raining and raining and gray...
As a result, most of my garden is lush and green, but the flowers are in pretty short supply.
But here's what I've got:
The back garden, bowed under the rain. Mostly green at this stage.
The campanula that's on the lefthand side of the first picture. This thing is seriously gorgeous, I have to say [g]. Whoever hybridized it and grew it and enabled me to purchase it for my garden, thank you.
There's a bunch of foliage in this picture, as well as a few soaked flowers. The red/orange/yellow in front is nemesia, picked up on a whim when I was doing my annual annual purchase this year. Immediately to its right is a lavender covered in buds. It's been covered in buds for at least three weeks, and it just needs some sun to open them all up. Pretty please? Behind that is linaria, in lots of different colors. This is one of my old reliables from seed every year. My garden would not be complete without it. Oh, and the lettuce-y looking leaves behind all that are poppies, which have also been in bud for weeks and are waiting for the sun, too. Something I'm beginning to think is futile.
As my sister queried when she was here, "what are those prehistoric-looking plants?" Hostas! With coral bells in full bloom (I've had hummingbirds dodging the raindrops for them) and the monkshood almost to the top of the fence (it won't bloom till September, but it's so worth the wait).
More prehistoric plants and a bleeding heart, but damn, the containers look sad. I don't think the petunias have put out more than two flowers or an inch in growth in the six weeks since I planted them. The lobelia's doing pretty well, though.
The front flower bed. The white snapdragon was a volunteer. How come it's doing so much better than all the snapdragons I planted, which are about a foot tall? The red-violet is my neighbor's thyme, which has really taken off this year. There are two whites visible. The one by the thyme is a volunteer columbine, the one closer to my front door is dianthus. Oh, and my neighbor has some lovely small red roses that really clash with the thyme in a charming way [g].
A closeup of the hardy geranium (five-lobed foliage) and a pink and white so-called annual dianthus (this is that plant's third year). Also alyssum, carnations, candytuft, johnny-jump-ups, and unopened rosebuds on my fairy rose (these have also been sitting there for several weeks).
I can haz sunshine now, plz???