I hope everyone was able to stay cool this past week. I was doing flowers early in the morning in what cool we had then would sit on the porch in the afternoon under the ceiling fans reading. What a novel thing for me to do! and I was reading novels to boot, not books on how to grow better flowers! Very novel.
The flowers are looking good despite the heat and the lack of rain. I am careful with irrigating because of our well but so far so good. Last week I filled the mobile water tank three times and drove around hand watering just about everything that was put in new this year that isn’t on the watering system. That took a while, and three batteries to run the pump. Next week I will take a picture of the remote watering system which is kinda cool and one that I am very grateful for. Steve picked me up two more batteries because one battery is good only for 1 1/2 tanks of water. Each tank holds 65 gallons.
As you can see the flowers are quite floriferous. The zinnias have finally come into their own after such a terrible start. There aren’t as many as I would like, but I have them. The celosia is starting to feather, the scented geraniums are magnificent as foliage, the orach is setting very cool pods for interest, I am harvesting various perennials and am still battling rodents that are driving me crazy.
I had a snake eating a frog and I reminded said snake that we are to work together on this gardening project. You are to take care of the rodents, the frogs take care of the insects and we need to work as a team and not eat each other. Sheesh.
The dahlias are starting to bloom, slowly. They don’t like the heat and it slows them down, which is interesting because they are from Mexico. I am harvesting some, but I have lots of buds so soon, really soon I hope. I will have buckets of dahlias.
I just want to say thank you for your understanding that the flower shed was closed the last few Tuesdays. Life sometimes overrules flowers. We should be good now for the rest of the season with the shed open both Tuesday afternoons and Fridays. If you have special requests just let me know in advance so I can have things ready for you.
I haven’t done and #windowframethrusdays for a while because well, life is just not aways accommodating but finally I got one posted last week. I hope you enjoy it as much as I had fun creating it.
One last shout out to Gary who saved me once again with the website. Thank you Gary. You are my savior.
Until next week, I dream of flowers. Do you? Allie