Today was another brutally hot day but we accomplished a lot out in the gardens. By 2 pm we had a downpour which offers moisture but lots of work repairing path washouts tomorrow! Nice shot above of the irises down in the wishing well garden this morning. We've had so many compliments regarding these beautiful perennials and despite them blooming early, they are still being enjoyed by many visitors. John and Larry mowed today with Larry moving on to weedwhipping and other activities. John rototilled and did some watering while Janice worked on many different tasks (planting, watering, etc.). Jenny was in the holding yard all day matching up labels to our plants that will go out in the gardens soon. She is so organized and it is nice to take a plant out with a label so it is easily identifiable and we don't have to "catch up" with a label later. Little Jerry worked on pruning around the Japanese garden and we had time to do our "walk and talk" thru that garden today. One of my favorite underused shrubs can be seen below. This is the fragrant abelia (
Abelia mosanensis) that while getting to be about 6' tall and 6' wide, is covered with VERY fragrant pink blooms (seen further below) and it also has a nice orange fall color.
We had another top notch volunteer contingent today. Kay, Margaret, Heidi and "Fireman" Bill worked on clearing alli
um and daffodil foliage from select areas in anticipation of upcoming planting this Thursday. It was brutal out there but they worked a solid 4 hours (see Kay to the left). Mary and Roy came in and planted their portion of the shade garden with annuals while Kelley
and Sue cleared their portion of that same garden of weeds and will be planting tomorrow. Bill O. was in this morning and later this afternoon for help cleaning up and Maury went on some important errands for us as well. We really have some great volunteers and are fortunate. To the right is a close-up of viper's bugloss (
Echium vulgare) in the English cottage garden that always catches attention with tall, colorful spikes. I can't say that I've ever seen our peonies look better although they are also blooming quite early as well. Below is a shot in the fern/moss garden with one of the yellow tree peonies (
Paeonia suffruticosa) in the foreground and at the bottom is a beautiful peony called 'Do Tell' in our English cottage garden. I don't think the American Peony Society members will see many peonies when the come on June 4-6 but that's the way Mother Nature rolls sometimes.
um and daffodil foliage from select areas in anticipation of upcoming planting this Thursday. It was brutal out there but they worked a solid 4 hours (see Kay to the left). Mary and Roy came in and planted their portion of the shade garden with annuals while Kelley
and Sue cleared their portion of that same garden of weeds and will be planting tomorrow. Bill O. was in this morning and later this afternoon for help cleaning up and Maury went on some important errands for us as well. We really have some great volunteers and are fortunate. To the right is a close-up of viper's bugloss (Echium vulgare) in the English cottage garden that always catches attention with tall, colorful spikes. I can't say that I've ever seen our peonies look better although they are also blooming quite early as well. Below is a shot in the fern/moss garden with one of the yellow tree peonies (Paeonia suffruticosa) in the foreground and at the bottom is a beautiful peony called 'Do Tell' in our English cottage garden. I don't think the American Peony Society members will see many peonies when the come on June 4-6 but that's the way Mother Nature rolls sometimes. 
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