Glorious Color
I finally had a quiet morning to get out in the garden before the heat of the day made it too unpleasant. The weeds were calling my name...taunting me, really. I spent the morning pulling weeds, pruning back some of the growth, and plucking out the spent flowers. I even filled the bird feeders and staked some drooping Cosmos (flowers). The Campanula is filling in better this year. I still have some gaps, but perhaps spring bulbs can fill them. The glorious "after". Weeds are gone, spent flowers pruned. There was an interesting "mound" underneath my Potentilla (that yellow flowered bush in the front). I still don't know what could have caused such a large hill (no signs of bugs or critters) in my flowers, but I flattened it by spreading the sand around. I really like the curly branches of my Henry Lauder's Walking Stick. When I was done working in the garden, this little guy came out to great me.