have a beautiful garden

Every garden needs a bench to ‘stop and smell the roses’.

Salvia ‘Mystic Spires’ with Carefree Beauty rose in the background.

Ebb Tide rose

I’ve been weeding and my garden is looking fairly good. Still have some more chores to do, but I’ll try to post pictures soon. Couldn’t today because it kept timing out on me.

It has been 105 degrees here for the last couple of days. No end in sight. Needless to say, my garden is wilting, wilting!!! And it’s wayyyy too hot to be working outside! Just have to try to water as best I can and see what damage has been done when it finally cools down. Hope it’s not going to stay this hot in July and August!

the thunderstorm snapped my pear tree in half. :( It was in the back pathway garden, and was a Mother’s Day gift from 3 years ago. So sad to lose it. We will have to replace it as the space really looks bare without a vertical presence there.

The lotus bloomed for the first time this year today!

We’ve had wind and we’ve had rain, then we’ve had wind and rain. Not too many pretty days to work, but I did get finished with the side ‘walkway’ garden (except I want to throw in some dayliles), and I have almost (but not quite) finished mulching the back rose bed. Still have lots of work left to do in the butterfly garden. ‘sigh’ When this rain lets up (in another week?), then I’ll start working again. Course, I am not complaining about the rain – my plants all need it and we will wish for it come summer, I’m sure!

Mulched the back ‘pathway’ flower beds today. Yeah! Just need to move a bench back there, put up the hanging plant holder, fix the fence post, and decide what to put in the place of the dead hibiscus plants.

I also started painting the gazebo, but I’m only 1/2 done. Hope we have another pretty day soon so I can finish it and the mulching in the rest of the flower beds.

I can’t quit buying roses! They are so pretty in the stores, I just have to have them! I’m going to be out of room to squeeze in any more anywhere soon! Will I be able to stop then?