Whew! Playing catch-up here, so many pictures!
I still have not downloaded my photos from my treck to Sangarhausen or any other garden, for that matter. I took so many photos that I jammed up my phone. Did you know that apps stop working when you fill the card with photos? Apps like the gps... important things.
When I finally got back from Germany, I was too tired to even look at the garden. Turned out, I had pneumonia. The garden was untended for 3 weeks, but luckily we had rain about every 4th day. The weeds grew like crazy! I'm back with the living now, mostly, and trying to get caught up. This weekend, when the weather finally cooled off enough that I could work outside, my husband decided we needed to go away to the lake, so the weeds got another reprieve. We came home only when a storm came up, and boy what a storm! We got over 11" rain in 24 hours. I emptied the rain gauge twice, and the second time it was overflowing so who knows how much rain we really got. A friend said she had 16". Guess I need a bigger rain gauge! I now have weed trees that are 3 feet tall!
The daylilies are stealing the show now. The clumps are just huge, so there's another task on my to-do list. Since most of my hybrid tea roses dropped their leaves, should I prune them back hard? It's very humid now, which is unusual for us. It's too hot for most diseases, so should I also take the time to feed with milorganite or alfalfa? I'm expecting fast growth with all the rain, and I don't want to miss a window for feeding if there is one.
I will eventually get some pictures posted, I promise. It is just taking me forever to get caught up on work, and all the stuff that didn't get done while I was gone and while I was sick. I am so so lucky we had rain. When I was checking on the plants this morning, I found a small tree that was almost covered in brush that had washed in with the flood water. Then I found a small fish there too! Mother nature was adding compost, mulch and fish emulsion for me, what a deal!
