Busy Days

As is often the case in June, recent days have been quite busy. At least Mother Nature has been kind, keeping the gardens watered while I'm otherwise engaged at work. And there's always a few minutes, early in the morning or sometimes just before sunset, to take a look around and see what's going on. Like this first yellow daylily that opened despite a rainy lead-in to Saturday morning.

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That fancy primrose from this winter is putting on a nice quiet show by the kitchen door.

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A little rain never stops me from looking around the garden, and sometimes the dimmer light conditions are what calls my attention to something unusual, like this single wisteria flower cluster trailing out of a young treetop that's being consumed by the stuff on the pond bank in front of the house.


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Naturally, I just recently told someone we had wisteria, but that it didn't bloom for us. As if I have any clue what the garden will or will not do!

Monday--mostly a day off--did bring plenty of sunshine and fresh blooms to enjoy, like this happy cluster of moss rose. That's another milkweed climbing out of their midst.

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When I wasn't simply enjoy the flowers of things like the coronation gold yarrow sports here, I was tearing up old fencing, raking, mowing...trying to generally tidy up the garden area. I also re-purposed the legs and crosspieces of an old wooden chair as hose guards. There's no better way to pass a day, I think, than in the company of a garden...


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...especially now that there are dragonflies like this beauty to follow around.

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White allium sparkle in the sunlight.

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This purple iris and its brethren unfurled in the warm sun of Tuesday morning, outside the Old Jailhouse Tavern. They put on a great show all day, which is nice, since the torrential rains that came last night and stayed much of today seemed to have laid them flat on the ground by this morning.

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My one heliotrope flower has now opened and is scenting the damp air of the back garden with its sweet perfume.

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As I checked the meadow this evening (despite an additional five inches of rain in the last 24 hours, it still hasn't yet flooded like it did last spring...), I found that drift of siberian iris from the old garden blooming quietly, their blue a brilliant spot of color in the dim evening light. I envision a few divisions from this planting finding their way into the back garden later this summer. What a great foil to the gold yarrow they would be!

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