Planted the Golden Celebration rose last week. It's already going green, with a reddish shoot. Well, with all this rain.
Yes, it has been raining this month. Day after day, pouring down. Rain barrels out catching it. This is great. Garden very green. Still early, no idea how the summer will grow. Mostly clump grass so far, weedy stuff, I try to thin it out every year. Even mowed it, in patches of course. Since I don't really have mowable patches. The verge is mostly the rye grass I put down last fall. Keeping the weeds down, anyway. Plucking up what weeds I can. Constant vigilance. Wheat grass is tall and provides a dark green texture.
Bergamot returning, first the wild stuff, the less wild ones only emerging today.
Hard to keep hoping, these days. But the buds return, and I rejoice.
Determining the wild flower cotyledons from the weed and tree seedlings continues to be daunting. Sometimes, I just have to wait for them to declare themselves.
Still, green arrives. And I rejoice.
Soon, perhaps, there will be more reasons to rejoice.
5 comments:
it feels like the depth of edmonton august here. hard to think that may is still around the corner.
i planted a couple kinds of thyme, an oregano, a bunch of salvia with its addictive bitter orange aroma, lemongrass and patchouli for the shady front. learning lots. will likely need to move things once they bush out, but i'm open to new knowledge, and watching things grow here is wonderfully fulfilling - it happens so quickly!
after winter, spring comes. let's try to remember that.
Please send rain - it's been dry here for weeks and my pond is running out of water. But everything is looking wonderful in the sun. I just feel concerned for the newts.
Good garden news are always reasons to rejoice. I wish we would get some rain, instead we get frost. This is very unusual for our corner of the planet and we have lost a few sturdy plants and most of the potataoes. Roses are budding but refusing to open in this cold weather.
We moved the voodoo lilies indoors waiting for the explosions of stinky smell any day.
pc,
I had to learn gardening from nothing, even though I remember digging in my mother's occasional plantings. Very different from place to place. Gotta know your zone.
RR,
I would gladly send rain to your newts. Which puts me in mind of "Gussie" Fink-Nottle.
Sabine,
It snowed here off and on all day yesterday. Nothing stuck. I had the new rose covered in the plastic bag it came in since Tuesday evening. Don't think it actually froze here, but it got down close to it.
We had near record rain for the month of April, and May has begun with rain forecast for five of the first six days.
Everything is green here too, now, though in spots inundated.
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