I have to say there isn’t too much happening in my garden besides the weeds going crazy. I look out the window longingly wondering when it will be cool enough to tackle some weeding. The temperature is averaging 92 with a heat index of 99 to 102, no rain for over a week. A few updates:
Butterfly Bush, Coneflowers, Lavender, Roses, Black Eyed Susan’s, Crocosmia, Sage, Scabiosa and False Sunflower are all still blooming
The great buy of $1 sunflowers, (I bragged about in a previous post) all died exactly as I bought them. They didn’t grow an inch.
I did buy some small perennials for 60 cents each. a Butterfly Weed, Columbine and Balloon Flower. They are still in my golf cart waiting to be planted.
Speaking of the golf cart, George has made it to the garage. George is my gnome, pictured below. I bought him quite awhile ago and decided to paint him with traditional gnome colors, which I googled and made my choices. I used outdoor paint and he stood under a pine tree in the woods for two years. His paint was fading and I brought him in to refresh his colors. Well he’s been sitting in teh dining room corner for another two years until the other day. (He was tii heavy for me so I had to wait for my husband to do it. Anyway his placement is important to me, I want him in the woods but where I can still see him out the windows.
My gnome is named George. If you’ve read my blog, (which really nobody has) you’d know he is named after my favorite Beatle, George Harrison, who was also a gardener.
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