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Ready to bust out

Yesterday, while doing yard work, I noticed a few things that are getting ready to bloom and a couple of root beer iris that had bloomed amongst a see of white creeping phlox

The rhodie in front is getting ready - doesn't look like it will be a great showing this year, but we'll see

Fall of 2019 I sowed lupine seeds that I harvested from a friend's place. This is the first year I will have blooms

 

Blooms Greeted Me

When I got back from vacation, color was aplenty

Sunrises

I was away for vacation last week. Had a great time with Cop Car and the rest of the family! In the mornings, I would take walks in the area of the hotel and there were a couple of fantastic sunrises. The first is from 5/19 and the second from 5/20.

They Say NH Doesn't Get Tornados

And by "they", I don't mean the weather guessers. I'm talking about the general USA population that believes that NH doesn't get tornadoes. We certainly don't get the amount of tornadoes as a lot of other areas. And I would hazard a guess that we see more "straight line" events than tornadoes, but we do get a couple a year. Fortunately this one was a weak one yesterday evening when we had severe weather going thru. The video was taken in Charlestown NH (about 38 miles from me - by road).

Disclaimer - the Weather Service has yet to confirm it was a tornado, but by the looks, I'm calling it one.

Shade Garden Blooms

A few more things are blooming:

Forget-me-Nots were blooming on Mother's Day and I sent Cop Car the virtual flowers. I really like the way there are several different colors of flwoers

Yesterday the Flowering Almonds were looking nice (these were in the original garden section of the shade garden when I moved here).

Since last Sunday, Solomon's Seals have popped up over the Forget-me-Nots and are set to bloom

Now it is time to complain about the weather. It was a cool and gloomy spring. I ran the main floor pellet stove as late as this past Tuesday morning (with the mornings being high 20's to around freezing)). It has been long-sleeve weather with the highs being in the 40's and 50's. Wednesday and Thursday afternoon it got into the 60's so that was 2 days of short-sleeve weather.

Then Friday it was up to 88 and yesterday was 94 - straight to tank top weather and the AC on. And the mornings didn't cool off too much being in the high 60's, so opening the windows and putting in the fans don't cool the house down much from the 74* that the AC is set at. I think I got it down to 71 yesterday morning and After 1.5 hours, this morning I have gotten it down to 73* (still have a couple of hours to go before the sun rises).

It is supposed to be cooler today and I need to do the first mowing of both yards so I'm hoping the humidity level is low.

 

Mother's Day 2022

Cop Car, I wish you a very happy Mother's Day!

Roadside Garden Explosion

The daffodils and narcissus have taken the cool, cloudy, rainy weather to heart and really come into their own in the roadside garden. As peop;e drive down the street, their attention is probably drawn by the bright colors.

The creeping phlox by the driveway have made a surprise blush. Usually they are a bit later

And the daffs in the backyard, at the treeline are putting on their own sporadic show. For some reason they bloom by ones and twos instead of all at once. I can't complain since I didn't plant any of them. The white ones are a simpler form but they are amazing spreaders. They started as one clump a couple of years ago, and now there are 5 distinct clumps, in a line stretching 25 feet.

I'm thinking that squirrels or chipmunks transplanted some bulbs. They aren't supposed to bother daffodils, but I can tell you a couple of years ago they removed every dang bulb from the new raised garden by where the willow used to be. I planted them around the Rose of Sharons. I could tell they had been dug up when it happened, and not a single bulb remained. That is the only garden without any bulbs despite my best efforts. I'll have to try planting again next fall.

Great Spring Day

Yesterday afternoon was the first day of short-sleeve weather. It was 62*, sunny with few clouds, and the wind wasn't at 40 mph. Sure, we had a fairly stiff breeze, but wasn't too bad so after a bunch of running around, I got out in the yard and did some cleaning up late afternoon. First I took a bunch of winter fall limbs to the dump. They have recently instituted a policy of nothing over 3", so I had to hold a couple back, but I was able to get rid of most of them.

I cleaned up all the perennial stalks and dead day lily leaves out of the driveway garden. No pics for that - just take my word that it looks much better. Then I started cleaning out the roadside garden.

I couldn't clean that end as well as I would have liked as it has baby lupines growing as well as the daffodils and hyacinths that I didn't want to tear up with the leaf rake. But I did get all the stalks out from the peonies. Dang, those stalks are so stringy and tough that I'll bet the strands could be used to weave baskets.

The far end cleaned up better since there were no bulbs coming up. I don't know whether those daffodils got eaten by chipmunks/squirrels, they died, or are just late.

I bagged up all the leaves and all the stalks are in the 4-wheel cart, so are ready to take to the dump next weekend. Here are hyacinths and daffodils from the shrub garden.

I haven't cleaned up that area yet and still need to clean up the raised bed at the other side of the house as well as the shade garden. But my first priorities for today will be to get rid of some invasive roses that have jumped the drainage ditch from the former swamp. The only good thing about them is they green up before most other stuff, so are easier to find and deal with in the spring. I also need to cut up what I can of the large limb that came down in the neighbor's back yard. Need to get that done before mowing season begins.

Today is supposed to be a bit warmer than yesterday with just a light breeze, so should be lovely to be out in the yard.