Northeast Gardening: Show us your Bloomers #2, 1 by DonnieBrook

DonnieBrook wrote:
Celeste - glad you are enjoying the southern blooms! And yes, the temps are nice and cool at night now, and warm in the afternoons. I have to do the gardening right after breakfast in order to manage the sun and my fair skin well.

I am afraid to go look out at my back patio. I just returned home from doing some shopping, and when I arrived, my DH was napping from a heavy morning of golf, AND there are four very small men digging up all my hard work and my patio to connect our phones to the new underground lines. There are dirt piles, stones, lava rocks and big long trenches everywhere. I was so stunned I was speechless, and they don't speak any English, so I just smiled with shaky lips and brought them each a water. Gulp! I cannot look. I can only cross my fingers that they'll put it back somewhere close to what I had just finished doing. WHY couldn't they have come when it was still full of WEEDS???? Oh, Big Huge Bummer! DH is still asleep.....I don't think he'll be happy either.......Progress! LOL (gotta keep smiling).......Wait......I just walked out to see it while the men are taking a break out front. They have done a fair job of putting most of it back together. There's still a mess near the house, and my nice level winding walkway is now an up and down see-saw walkway, but at least DH won't have a hissy when he wakes up. He can fix it for me. LOL I guess at least the empty house won't have a phone outage during a hurricane while we are up in NH.

Oh, I got distracted from sending along a shot of a neat burgundy-leafed hibiscus shrub that my kind neighbor rooted for me. Its bloom is very pretty, and the leaves look a bit like maple leaves. It is very different for a hibiscus! Here it is........