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Category: Ramblings | Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 7:27 pm

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It all started with a little watering.

Moved on to harvesting the floppy flowers of the elephant garlic (need to move those to the backs of the beds or under shrubs. The flowers are pretty but the leaves look ratty.) and a few more garlic bulbs.


Elephant garlic ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )

The lambs ears flowers were laying down.

Now I am beginning to feel guilty because the bees have been thick on the flowers of both. Oh well, there are already sooo many unweeded volunteers from earlier bee activity on flowers that their keepers should be happy.

Dear, oh dear. More dead heading of the phlox needed. Darn, I really should move them and find the path again.

Where's the shovel?

Yes, this plant can go there (dig, and move). And that plant plant can go there (dig, and move). How about another plant in that spot (dig, and move). Where the heck did that start come from? (dig, and move). Yeh gads, I've moved five clumps. That's enough for now. I have a hole to fill.


The pink flowering strawberries will soon fill in ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )


And gosh darn, those mini iris need to be thinned out of the path.


Mini iris need to be thinned out of path ( photo / image / picture from Jewell's Garden )

Guess that is enough for the moment. Got another chapter to read on my homework list.




Note:
Sorry for the poor photos but my iPad doesn't take good shots on sunny days.

Our weather has been in the high 70s F getting up to low 80s F on a really warm day. This means most of the day is generally cool and around 4PM it it's the high temperature for a half hour or so. Our evenings cool off to the low 50s although last night our low was 57.

My version for of a 'normal' summer in the south Puget Sound of Washington state has temps generally in the 60s with night dropping down into the 40s. Maybe a week or two all summer into the 70s with a day or two in the 80s. Rains spring until August. August through October being dry.

It is generally not this warm for extended weeks like this year. We have had over a month of delicious heat. Unfortunately it also makes our area prone to extreme fire danger.




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Henry Johnson wrote on Wed Jul 30, 2014 2:44 pm:

Jewell, I think that I would love to live in your climate.. I have visited Seattle twice back in the 1960's, loved it! Vashon Island, especially...
Hank

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Jewell wrote on Wed Jul 30, 2014 3:11 pm:

Henry, you visited a lovely area. Vashon Island is a bit drier than us to the south a bit, but how can you not love the sea, sky and green? Many can't take our cloudy, rainy, cool weather though.

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