I refer to 'summer bloom season'....
it begins with Iris spuria, lots of clematis and delphiniums, and the astilbes... all are almost to the point of bursting forth as can be seen in these photos of one of the two main areas where I grow delphiniums. If we can somehow avoid the hail, high winds, and downpours predicted as possible for tonight, the gardens will be amazing this year in terms of summer bloom. Everywhere I look lilies are ready to open, asiatics in the next few days that are the height of shorter orienpets in some cases.... it has to be the rain which has been with us for weeks and it's thrilling to behold.
it begins with Iris spuria, lots of clematis and delphiniums, and the astilbes... all are almost to the point of bursting forth as can be seen in these photos of one of the two main areas where I grow delphiniums. If we can somehow avoid the hail, high winds, and downpours predicted as possible for tonight, the gardens will be amazing this year in terms of summer bloom. Everywhere I look lilies are ready to open, asiatics in the next few days that are the height of shorter orienpets in some cases.... it has to be the rain which has been with us for weeks and it's thrilling to behold.
Here's an update on the clematis tower, a very ugly structure that I built a couple seasons back which is now coming into its own. I've had doubts about this monstrosity ever since I completed it, but I can now appreciate that it will eventually be a point of interest in the gardens. Buried in at least a dozen clematis plants, eventually it will be a mass of bloom which was the basis of the original concept... it's going to be a good thing down the road...
Speaking of oddities, my Prunus avium 'Plena' succumbed to the winter as I knew it must eventually. This is the tree that sported my coined term 'treearings' since last season. I made a decison to keep this oddity and had a friend top the tree this past Saturday. I can see a couple possibilities for it in my mind's eye... the most realistic perhaps, would be a collection of very large bird houses in the style of Victorian mansions on the tips of each extending trunk. As if the projects back-log wasn't big enough already! My wife will soon lose patience with my unfinished kitchen project.... wouldn't it be great to have the money to simply think up all the projects and hire someone else to do the dirty work... perhaps... then again, it wouldn't be nearly as rewarding!
This tree project has already extracted a toll on me... as I was cleaning up all the branches I managed to trip and almost catch myself three times, ending up propelling myself into the hard ground onto my left side of my ribcage... I weigh 282 pounds so you can perhaps picture that this is causing me some major pain... did the same thing last year when I stepped off a ladder into space and fell over a log while building an arbor. I turn 65 tomorrow and the thought sometimes crosses my mind that if I'm not more cautious, I may not make it to 66! And no, I'm not ready to answer 'yes' on those questionnaires one gets at all the doctor offices... "have you fallen lately"... I dived head first just for the fun of entertaining my friend who got to watch the entire scene from his vantage point up in the tree!! That's my story, and I'm sticking to it...
Take care, Larry
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