7-23 Garden Update: warm weather brings warm colours....
My, my, how a few splashes of orange and red brighten the palette of a garden. It's been ten days or so since the last garden post, flowers have gone, flowers have come.
In bloom in the tiny east bed are a red 'Champlain' rose, dusty-pink astilbe, orange day lilies, white shasta daisies, fiery asiatic lilies and candy-pink astilbe:
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Our lots are much bigger than the lots of houses that are in the older part of town, just so you don't get the wrong impression. There are almost no parts of town where the houses are built wall to wall, like a real city's residential blocks, but in many older areas the houses are separated only by narrow greenways or a walking space, a small garden in front and a long narrow one in back that goes to the alley. These are all two or three-story houses with narrow, deep floor plans. Our area was nearly rural when the oldest houses on the street were built, in the 1920's. Our house is one of a group of one-story homes begun at the start of WWII and finished when the men, who went into the armed forces for the war, came back. Ours was completed in 1946. The block to the east of us has homes from the 1920'3 and 1930's. The blocks have alleys and sidewalks and narrower lots, though not as small are old downtown. (Ha ha - "old" - here, remember, "old" is anything older than one's self, whatever that is per the speaker.)
Adam's parents live in Canada? Which part? I've had a yen to live in Nova Scotia, in lieu of the UK, for several years. But Canada is a b - i -g place. :)
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