From our own indefatigable and ever-obliging WaterGirl:
Spring flowers are long gone, but summer has arrived!
Top pic: This is the round bed in front, and this picture was taken a few weeks ago. It will be a couple of weeks before the bed is showy again with hydrangea and coneflower blooms.
The peonies you see are gone, but here they are in a vase. I almost could have had a Martha Stewart look for a minute, don’t you think?
But no, my white cotton pandemic gloves were in the picture – on the floor of the porch, no less! They had been in quarantine on the porch – and they had apparently blown onto the floor. This is why I am a terrible photographer; all I see if a sweet pup or kitty, or a beautiful flower, and everything else is invisible to my eye. But not to the camera lens, of course.
We always get a big rain on the day after all the full peonies come into bloom. This time I was at least smart enough, first thing in the morning after a nighttime of rain, to cut a bunch of the stems that were dragging to the ground, weighted with all the rain, so I could enjoy them in a vase. Next year, I hope to be smart enough to cut them right before the rain starts, because I think the cut blooms will last longer if they haven’t been beat up by the rain.
Painted Fern & Blackberry Ice Huechera
My painted fern is happy again this year, and I always try to pair them with the blackberry ice huechera, for what I hope are obvious reasons. Two years ago, after being in the ground for at least 5 years, it suddenly got very unhappy, and it looked like it wouldn’t make it. I dug it up, figuring I would pot it for a bit so I could move it to the convalescent area on the patio until it recovered. Everything loves that side patio area that gets dappled sun. But it fell into 4 pieces when I tried to move it, so I ended up with 4 pots. They all did really well, so this one (the biggest piece) got moved back to the original location, and all is right with the world again.
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