It's the time of year when annuals are being added here and there in the garden. Some color while we wait for seeds to do their things and later perennials to bloom.
I do so love a nice vibrant long-blooming vinca. That bright fuchsia color demanded to come home with me. The charmed wine oxalis is for a pot on the porch. It was a lucky find at the nursery, I was sure I had missed the chance to get some.
The coral bells under the redbud tree out front are looking great. The red husker penstemon has started to bloom. There is a nice crop of poppies that will bloom in another week or two. If one of you wants to come over and dig up all that liriope that continues to try and take over the front garden, I will ply you with iced coffee's in the mornings and adult cold beverages in the afternoon. I keep telling myself "tomorrow I will deal with that".
I clipped a few roses the other day and brought them in to enjoy. I am looking at them as I type. Maybe in my next life I will live in a climate that is more hospitable to roses. It just gets too hot here in the summer. I certainly do delight in the small crop that I harvest each spring, and sometimes later in the fall. When I was listening to the Wiser Than Me podcast Julia Louis-Dreyfus did with Isabel Allende today, there was a lovely line in it from Isabel about re-inventing herself several times in her life over the years. Hence my thoughts of a cottage with a wild profusion of roses.
Yellow stuff is blooming at the Baker Wetlands right now. I forgot to consult the references posted out there when I was leaving to see exactly what it is. Other than pretty that is. I do like a wild prairie meadow.
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