Middle of Week.....

The hummers are busy hitting some of my flowers, my feeder and also the neighbor's feeder. Some stay for a long drink and others land for only a few seconds and take off again. 

I deadheaded the pink rose this morning. I will return with some strong clippers to take out all the dead stems. It had a lot of winter kill and yet still is a good sized shrub.  I also deadheaded my neighbor's knock out rose that sits there next to mine. After that I decided to mow the back yard. 

One other project was to move the zinnia plants around so they will fill in the whole flat. I don't have perfect rows this year and I am better it will look better.  My legs get cramped up doing this work so I uit before I fall into the whole bed. Tomorrow is another day and I can do some more transplanting. . 

these lilies open up at a different time that the regal lilies. This is the very first bloom of the many buds still on the stem. It isn't a tiger lily but its specks do remind me of one. 

We have no big plans for tomorrow. we will just be here.  We have a roast ready to eat and will enjoy being bombarded by all the fireworks around us. The weather is so great today as we have no rain but it is hot. Thanks for stopping by today.

Lightening and Rain.......

 

Having hollyhocks is such a great thing. This there second year for blooming and there are more of them than last year. 

It is such a special old fashioned flower. I have so many friends that are proudly displaying photos on their Facebook pages. I am limited to one color at this point but I have yet to find others to spread in there. My brother in California is growing some great maroon colors. 

 My smaller yellow lily is blooming now. I have a larger yellow one that still in its budding stage.

This lily grows in a weedy area that I need to work on. My neighbor is very sick and won't be back to weed his side so I will hit the whole area soon. I hit the water grass problem already but I need to return and deal with lots of other unwanted things growing there. It was too weedy for the columbine to bloom or at least I never saw them bloom. 

I was out this morning moving all the new growths of zinnia around into a better order.  They came up into clumps and I could lift them with a trowel quickly in the wet soil.  Unfortunately it started to be a little rainy and lightening strikes were hitting.  I quit and I will return on another couple of days before I get all those zinnias transplanted.  It was too wet to mow my own yard today in the back and that is good as I needed to heal up from yesterday. My wife is better as she is back in her studio painting. It isn't for long hours but that she has the desire to get back at it is so great.  Thanks for stopping by today.

The Beginning of the Week....

 The cottage garden is filling in with so many different flowers. It takes patience as a gardener when it all looks so green and at first there is not a single flower blooming. 

Most of the hydrangea blooms are starting to turn green except for this one pure white bloom. My cell phone picked up a lot of detail on all those small white flowers in the bunch. 

I cleared out most of the invasive vines that were growing, taking over, the area. The former owner left me with the vine and I don't like how it has creaped all around the house. The monarda doesn't look so good because the vine was taking over its growing space. I worked on this side of the house instead of dead heading more rose bushes. 

While I was out working I had the company of this mother rabbit.  I also had a baby bunny come hopping my way at the same time a chunk sprinted across the way. The neighbor showed the four new baby bunnies and now they are out and about looking for their own food. Notice the zinnias coming up in the two plots. Some morning I will get my trowel and shift things around to fill in the whole space of each side.

I mowed my neighbor's yard this morning.  I was going to stop and finish it later. But when I got close to being done I just plowed on. My wife always does here therapy exercise to the most and I thought I had to finish the job just like she does. It was good to get it done and I won't do it again for a week and a half. I have mowing to do in my own yard but I think we will have a rainy day Tuesday. 

Thanks for stopping by today.