Gabbysgarden's Blog

Our beautiful June weather has been stolen and replaced with some crazy hot stuff! Certainly takes this northerner a while to get used to the heat although we live near the coast and our temps do tend to stay a little cooler. Difficult to do more than a little watering, weeding and deadheading. Advice is no transplanting or adding new plants for a few days. DH has actually suggested it might be a sign that it is time to let up on my nursery addiction. Leaves some time to battle ants in the veggie garden, aphids on the rose buds and bunnies everywhere! Even the birds are quieter in the heat. Leaving fresh water for them.

Have some lupine in their full glory and rhodies are still in bloom. The different varieties of  rhodies and azaleas are blooming at different times. The french lilac is in bloom and what a beautiful fragrance. Peony blooms are almost ready to burst open. Tree peony just finished blooming. Baptisia beginning to bloom. Have one very pretty patch in the garden that I think is a pink coneflower - will post a photo to see if I can get a positive ID on it. 

A break from the heat is a good opportunity to check in with GG and look around for amazing advice. Have started some banana water after reading some of the advice on roses and will use to water those lovely little plants. The info on this site is so plentiful and helpful. I can get so caught up in finding new info that I have to catch myself and get back to work! Thank you to everyone sharing on this site. This is awesome.