have a beautiful garden

I think this goal needs to be altered into “Let my husband create a garden he likes”.
I am allowed to water some plants and pick them out, but for the rest he has his own ideas (Well, he asks me about mine, but they are always dismissed very fast).
So, I leave this one up to him. Not that I mind, but I had some nice ideas…

^{One more funny ting to mention: I actually have studied botany! But that doesn’t matter now. Sooo much can be found on the internet so that even my husband can pick out some plants and take care of them…}

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.

My son helped out while my husband digged out the clay and I took out some weed and stones.’

...We’re still soo very far away from a beautiful garden…

This is a good place to sniff roses and write poems in the morning. It’s a bit dishevelled and weathered, but it’s spilling with blooms and herbs. There’s a table with an umbrella and weatherworn chairs behind the camera view.

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!