How is your garden looking today?

A couple of days with lovely sunshine and warmest temperatures - at least, now there's a little bit colour on the terrace



And a week after they've been planted 'maiden-like', the geranias look much better as well


Roses are still THE problem

It's fine today..


(The same angle, with a different lens, as the photo posted here on 2006-06-10 at 22:09 EDT)

Those are beautiful photos, guys. I hesitate to share photos that a friend of mine sent of his garden earlier this week. It's beautiful and I'd love to post them but...privacy issues, right? I just got in from seeing his garden in person. It is truly lovely. He puts so much work into it and has a great eye for color and design. I look forward to watching it develop over the years.

In the meantime, japanese beetles are eating my few little roses like they're the only roses in the entire ******* state of Ga. A major infestation. I bought an insecticide from Lowes today and a japanese beetle trap for about six dollars. Wish me luck!

First lilly came out today

Very beautiful colors, Walter.

(Tomorrow I will post another photo with the same angle but another different lense - Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 AF-D.)

Flashlight [Nikon SB800], against the full sun ... with Sigma 70-200 mm/2.8 EX-D

It rains today again..

we went to the theatre this afternoon , so we did not sit in the garden this afternoon as usual .
we came back around 6 pm and what did we see ?
one of our three 'resident' rabbits was having having a meal in our hosta border ... the rabbit very carefully parted the hosta plants and took the juiciest young shoots right from the bottom of the plants ! no old , tough leaves for this rabbit !
since we have plenty of hostas in our borders surrounding the flower-beds , i didn't shoo the rabbit away .
i was just amazed that rabbits are so choosy when picking their 'greens' !
i'll keep the camera ready tomorrow , maybe i can 'shoot' a rabbit - but they just won't sit still !
hbg

Probably a Celastrina argiolus in the morning..

Really nice, satt!

I didn't have such nice 'insects' this morning: we had had some short, but heavey rain and thunderstorm last night - sticky-warm this this morning ... with hundreds of small, white "stipps" (some kind of grab) on the geranias ...

Another corner of the garden..
(It was very sunny today.)

We had had a really heavy thunderstorm tonight and additionally two more during the day. [In my native town, 10 miles away, the firebrigade was alarmed 15 times within 10 minutes ... water and storm damages.]

Fortunately, we didn't get much damamge on the flowers (I don't carry the heavy pots under the roof each time.)



The lilies - six out by now out of thirty - still look rather nice



And I'm really happy that the geranias only look a little bit melancholy

Too cool Walter, with temps here running 96 to 100 every day and all day, It's all I can do to keep some plants alive.

eastern lake ontario :
excellent "growing weather" - rain on one day - low 20's C -
sunshine the next day - 25 C + .
things are really growing well - particularly the grass and the weeds !
cut the lawn on saturday (one half) and sunday (the other half) - by midweek i'll have to have another go at it .
the spirea hedge - about 250 feet - has finished flowering , so i'll have to start trimming it ; it'll probably flower again by september .
have you noticed that the longest day is already coming up !?! it'll be downhill from there on
hbg

I still haven't planted mother's christmas tree in her garden ... might leave it now in the pot and use it again, only a short period until then :wink:

walter : you still haven't planted that christmas tree , your mother will be disappointed when she finds out !

these trees - four of them - were planted by us about forty years ago , looks like they've outgrown the pot !

(thumbnails)


a quick walk through the garden , after the rain stopped and before the thundershowers are rolling in




















now here is my pride and joy !
in about another month i should be able to pick some tomatoes for breakfast .
every spring for the last several years we've been telling ourselves :
we will no longer plant vegetables !!!
but when the soil warms up in about mid-may ... we can't resist getting our hands dirty .
mrs h told me to definetely NOT plant any snow-peas - i had already bought some seeds that were sitting in the shed - and what did i see popping up the other day ?
mrs h said that she thought she just didn't want the seeds go to waste !!!

Tomatoes fresh from the garden, eh? MARVELLOUS!



Well, the cat is up her favourite tree......






The mint and oregano are getting along famously in the same pot.....





The Roses are finally in bloom..........













...and even the peaches are starting to look like peaches......





IT MUST BE SUMMER AT LAST!

BBB
Everyone on my street received a notice from the city that our street trees need to be pruned to provide more head clearance on the sidewalk. I was out pruning at 7 am to avoid the expected 100 degree heat this afternoon. I had five trees to prune. Fortunately, I have very good loppers that are not too difficult for me to handle. Now all I have to do is to get rid of all the branches on the ground.

Yesterday, I planted a trumpet vine at the concrete block wall in my back yard to climb on the trellis I had installed on the top of it. This vigorous vine will cover the trellis in a year or two.

BBB

We've got some heyvy rain and thunderstorm momentarily - glad, I could take the geranias inside:



Hoping that the other flowers will survive




It always should look this ...

It seems that the weather is somewhat instable there, Walter.
It has been reported very hot these few weeks, and thunderstorm now.
Is it usual?

(From curiosity, what mode did you use to take those pictures?)