Ooh I need to get some of that electric blue penstemon. That' s a great combo you have there!
We had a hurricane blow through here this morning. Wow. TWO inches of rain fell in 20 minutes. My gutters could not handle it. The lightning was so intense that Weather Channel kept going back to talk about us. I think that's why my bags of fertilizer are still sitting in the garage. I don't need to apply it, because when we finally do get rain here, it comes with lots of lightning and free nitrogen!
The 70 mph winds broke my McCartney rose off at the base. It was 5' tall and had a big cluster of heavy blooms at the end of one stem. I think some winter damage had weakened the lower part of the stem.
Yesterday was shop-till-you-drop day at the parking lot nursery. At half price, I filled my van with colorful annuals and a few perennials and shrubs. They were so perfect looking and since the forecast was for hail, they spent the night in my living room. I'm not sure if I should plant them today or wait to see if we get more hail tomorrow!
It's a great day to pull weed and weedy grasses! Normally I don't like to walk on saturated soil, but I really want the get all the weeds out while it's easy, and while it's cloudy and cool outside.
Ooh I just looked at local news on tv--I got off easy. There's lots of trees down locally, and some areas had baseball sized hail. I feel for them, been there. ouch.
