Summertime
Summer arrived by the middle of May and went away again and then came back. Far from as hot as last year but almost as dry.
Summer is my preferred season. I love sun, light, the light evenings, and the warmer temperature.
By now the entire garden has come to life. But the grass is more brown than green because of the long periods of draft we have had. Rain once a week isn’t enough to keep the grass green. I water the flowerbeds and bushes, but not the grass.
The climbing hortensia is blooming this year again, much to the joy of the bumble bees.
The elder bushes have bloomed. Not as much as I would have wanted but at least they bloom. They had a lot of lice as usual. A tip on FaceBook made me test an unusual way to keep the lice away from the elder bushes. To plant tagets under and around them! The first ones I planted froze just shortly after I had planted them. A sudden coldspell took them. So I grew from seed a batch of them and when ready (and frost nights no longer to be feared) planted them at first under the elder bushes. Then also in one of the flowerbeds around the rose therer.
A border of red petunias are planted at the edge of this flowerbed. The tagetes behind them and also around the rose.
The rose “Summerwind” just started to open its flowers. We planted it last year, late summer.
At the entrance to my patio from the garden the hollyhocks are getting bigger and bigger and whatever else grows there is hardly visible… They are also several more than last year. Not blooming yet, but soon. The wild wine and the honeysuckles cover the rose-bows that lead into the backgarden.
The backgarden
The backgarden is starting to look like an unkempt jungle. But, as it is not outside my windows, not my responsibility to take care of.
The backgarden is starting to look like an unkempt jungle. But, as it is not outside my windows, not my responsibility to take care of.
What I do have in the backgarden is a bed of mint and peppermint that gets bigger for each year. It is unusually good this year. No hungry insects have eaten it yet and it hasn’t bloomed yet either.
I also have a bed of marigolds grown from seeds from last year in the spot where the old planting-box used to be. Presently surrounded by net so the cats won’t use it for their toilet…
I love gardening and to be in the garden, no matter if it is work or relaxing.