Comments | mechtild: Summer is here....!

mechtild

Summer is here....!

Jul 05, 2011 18:06

June 25, 2011

Yes! We've had FOUR summer days in a row - upper seventies to eighties - even in the nineties away from the lake. The flowers are beginning to do their thing in earnest.

These photos are from yesterday, the 4th of July. It's been nine days since my last garden photos. ( Read more... )

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shirebound July 5 2011, 23:59:50 UTC

Beautiful! How Pippin would love that yard.

mechtild July 6 2011, 01:04:48 UTC

Pippin would love it. But would it love Pippin? *g* Actually, a very aged beagle lives next door. She gets tied out in the yard and we can hear her. She doesn't whine or howl or bark; she bays, really bays, just like it says they do in the books.

jan_u_wine July 6 2011, 00:13:17 UTC

i'm vacillating between love, extreme jealousy, and.......extreme jealousy.......

(*hides the debacle of her own garden, which is super easy to do.....*)

mechtild July 6 2011, 01:01:54 UTC

You say you've got a debacle in your garden. Is that like a garden gnome? ;)

jan_u_wine July 6 2011, 01:09:02 UTC

no, that'd be a gnomicle. My balcony truly *is* a debacle. My plan is to go buy all new plants the day before you get here and then beam like a proud little Gardener and pretend that t'is all the result of hard work and an intensely green thumb (instead of no work and black breath!)

mechtild July 6 2011, 01:11:10 UTC

If you want, we could do that while I'm there. I love going to nurseries (for plants, not humans).

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antane July 6 2011, 00:18:06 UTC

I was out on the balcony for hours on Sunday and Monday - just glorious!! This is the life I want! Yes, yes, yes!

Namarie, God bless, Antane :)

mechtild July 6 2011, 01:01:08 UTC

Wasn't it wonderful? I am sure you were enjoying the same weather system. It's still really, really nice. There was a short thunderstorm last night just before midnight, no damage, no power outages, just enough to give everything a good drenching. Whoopee!

julchen11 July 6 2011, 01:54:17 UTC

Wow! I really really love your garden. My garden looks like a huge catastrophe this year. It was too warm in April, the flowers grew and looked nice and then we had two bad frosty nights in May and all the little plants, sprouts got frostbitten. The rest of May and half of June was too dry - it seemed the plants grew backward. Then it was raining for about 3 weeks non stop and the lawn looked like a paddy field. And millions of snails attacked everything green.
Now (they say) it will become very hot and dry for the rest of summer. Phewwww... I hope the flowers will recover NEXT year, LOL.
But your garden looks like paradise. Are you a relative to Samwise?

mechtild July 6 2011, 02:22:38 UTC

Nope, no relation to Sam. Just lucky this year. It's been wet, but awfully cool, so there's been no mold or mildew, no snail infestations. Just lush and green. but behind the season, in terms of flowering times. We had a very cold spring, so no one planted any annuals until the end of May or even June, just in case.

Your weather this year sounds terrible, Julchen. Not your usual weather at all, am I right? But you've been so busy, or laid up, I'm in awe you have got out there to garden at all.

julchen11 July 6 2011, 02:26:11 UTC

I just couldn't let all the little scrubs and plants alone, I even talk to them now and then... IF the lawn turns green again MAYBE I can get some photos ;-)
But now I'll go down to fill the bird bath and to feed my rabbits. It's dawn and the sunrise is ... wow! Orange, red, purple, pink ... the colors are incredible.

mechtild July 6 2011, 02:41:14 UTC

I'm glad the sunrise is full of colour and that you're there to see it. It sounds glorious.

Julchen, when's your surgery? I've forgotten already. Forgive me. You're not delivering papers again, are you?

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lavendertook July 6 2011, 02:57:38 UTC

Oh how beautiful!!! Ah, the smell of lilacs!!! I don't think this was a good year for lilacs around here. Your pretty birdbath among the day lilies. I love your patio. Oh to sit there talking Tolkien while admiring those birches and enjoying the scent of lilac in the air. So when are you having us all over there for a moot? :-P

mechtild July 6 2011, 03:24:18 UTC

Well, let's see. This year the patio should be pleasant for two or three more months. September is possible, but we'd have to dress warmly and use throw rugs. :)

The lilacs have been extra good-smelling this year, I think because they opened so late down here. They opened very late, and opened slowly, so that now that it's warm the hybrids are still in flower. Up the hill all the lilacs are done, but down here by the lake where it's cooler (last week it was 90+ degrees three miles from the shore but 57 at the harbour), they are having an extended season. Yay!