6 on Saturday – 26JUL2025 – What Drought?

Another week with no rain…Clematis is being crispified but a few things are looking almost normal… Whether a result of bulbs buried deeply, a huge fibrous root ball or even a bit of hand watering, there’s a few things in the garden looking pretty good this weekend – good enough certainly to add them to […]

In a Vase, on Monday – Firsts

We finally had a bit of rain early yesterday morning, the first rainfall of July for us, only about 10 mm but enough to perk up the garden a bit and replenish, a bit, the rain barrels. It was enough to encourage a Zinnia to open – the first in my Zinnia patch, the early […]

6 on Saturday – 13JUL2024

‘Remnants’ of Hurricane Beryl passed through the area on Thursday, leaving behind four inches of rain but, unlike other areas on the continent, no death or damage. (More than a million people near Houston, Texas, have been without electricity since Monday!) It’s rare for us, so far inland and so far north, to experience these […]