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.

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[mechtild]

Ha ha! Yes, it does look neat. It always does before the plants finish growing up each season. Then they crowd each other nicely. The new shrubs and bushes will take longer to look less neat, they are still so small.

Sam would want a very different kind of garden, I think. More like my father in law, who is a gardner for real. He doesn't just want to arrange plants into a nice setting (that's me), he revels in examining seed catalogs, looking for new varieties, then buying seeds and starting them in trays in the basement, to set out later, annuals and vegetables. He loves putting in a new garden every year, from the choosing and sprouting of the seeds to the harvest. He's a tremendous appreciator of the growth of the soil, I'm more of a decorator. It's a shame he can't do the gardening he used to do (he's 88), although he still manages to plant a few beds.

Yes, Frodo would enjoy reading in this garden. It's quite nice sitting there in the sun under the umbrella (when it's opened up), or later in the day, the umbrella back down, when the sun is behind the tree tops to the west. There are squirrels and chipmunks to watch and loads of birds. When more flowers open there will be lots of honey bees and butterflies, some hummingbirds, too. Ahhhh.... Yes, our summer is very, very brief, but almost the sweeter for that. It's my favourite time of the year.