Summer is here....!

[mechtild]

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.

Comments

[yeuxdebleu]

Wow! More gorgeous photos. I have a "Miss Kim" lilac, too, and I know what you mean about it being a fast grower. I planted mine the same year I planted a white lilac, "Beauty of Moscow," and "Miss Kim" has grown about three times faster.

In the last photo, are those stone pavers on the right side of the pic or the new synthetic pavers? Yours are beautiful. I have seen artificial stone pavers that look amazingly real. I need to look into that. I have a lot of paths in my gardens and I'm tired of picking pebbles and wood chips out of my flower beds. Dragging a garden hose along the paths scatters chips and pebbles everywhere.

[mechtild]

Yeah, the Miss Kim totally dwarfed the dwarf lilac. :) Too bad, because I actually like the Dwarf Korean better with its delicate little leaves. But they are way too big to move. I'm going to cut out the old wood in the Miss Kim after the flowers are done. That may help the ones behind it

[lame_pegasus]

That's honestly a gardener's dream of a garden (so to speak). The only thing my "inner Sam" is missing are the taters, of course. *smiles*

[mechtild]

Hmm. I'll bet we could grow taters. They are a cold weather vegetable. Peppers and Tomatoes and melons, very iffy. :) That is, down here right by Lake Superior. A few miles away from the lake and you can grow all those things. It's much hotter in the summer just a mile away.

[mechtild]

Ha ha! Yes, it does look neat. It always does before the plants finish growing up each season. Then they crowd each other nicely. The new shrubs and bushes will take longer to look less neat, they are still so small

[bellewood]

We have rain here at the moment. I envy you your sunshine.

I adore your garden.. every bit of it. I would love to be able to sit out on your patio and take in the fresh sights and smells.. *sigh*. Well done!

[mechtild]

The patio is very nice to sit in. Before it was built, the back yard was not so appealing. It's made a tremendous difference. I just wish the time to sit out there weren't so brief! :)

[primula_baggins]

What a lovely garden you've created.

[mechtild]

Thanks! It was a lot of work over the years, but we enjoy it. :)