Summer is here....!

[mechtild]

June 25, 2011

Yes! We've had FOUR summer days in a row - upper seventies to eighties - even in the nineties away from the lake. The flowers are beginning to do their thing in earnest.

These photos are from yesterday, the 4th of July. It's been nine days since my last garden photos.

Comments

[julchen11]

Wow! I really really love your garden. My garden looks like a huge catastrophe this year. It was too warm in April, the flowers grew and looked nice and then we had two bad frosty nights in May and all the little plants, sprouts got frostbitten. The rest of May and half of June was too dry - it seemed the plants grew backward. Then it was raining for about 3 weeks non stop and the lawn looked like a paddy field. And millions of snails attacked everything green.
Now (they say) it will become very hot and dry for the rest of summer. Phewwww... I hope the flowers will recover NEXT year, LOL.
But your garden looks like paradise. Are you a relative to Samwise?

[mechtild]

Nope, no relation to Sam. Just lucky this year. It's been wet, but awfully cool, so there's been no mold or mildew, no snail infestations. Just lush and green. but behind the season, in terms of flowering times. We had a very cold spring, so no one planted any annuals until the end of May or even June, just in case.

Your weather this year sounds terrible, Julchen. Not your usual weather at all, am I right? But you've been so busy, or laid up, I'm in awe you have got out there to garden at all.

[julchen11]

I just couldn't let all the little scrubs and plants alone, I even talk to them now and then... IF the lawn turns green again MAYBE I can get some photos ;-)
But now I'll go down to fill the bird bath and to feed my rabbits. It's dawn and the sunrise is ... wow! Orange, red, purple, pink ... the colors are incredible.

[mechtild]

I'm glad the sunrise is full of colour and that you're there to see it. It sounds glorious.

Julchen, when's your surgery? I've forgotten already. Forgive me. You're not delivering papers again, are you?

[julchen11]

No, I just had to take from the papers *sigh* and I miss doing it! The surgery will be somewhen in August so I'm waiting patiently. but it gets on my nerves now and then. The good thing? I'm back at work since last Monday and I love it. The colleagues are very nice and they're are running all errands for me. But I'll have to stay at home in August and me and my cats are looking forward to it :-))

[mechtild]

I hope it's not too scorching in August. But if you are at home, complete with kitties and rabbits and birds, I think you will love it. You can walk around in a bathing suit. :)