Pacific Northwest Gardening: Garden Pics: April shows brought these May flowers #5!!!, 1 by Rarejem

Rarejem wrote:
Very nice geraniums!

Trisha, Sounds like your neighborhood got cleaned up the hard way. Glad no one was hurt other than the mailboxes!

I actually had to take time to water pots before work this morning. Does that mean that spring/summer is actually getting here for real?

My Pink Walloper rhodie actually has two blooms on it this year. It is one of my favorite rhodies, but had some trauma a few years back with having part of a 90 foot section of a hemlock break off and land on it, so that set it back a wee bit. I wasn't able to cut the tree off of it, but it was just mashed down in several sections rather than broken off, so it was able to eventually recover. The worst part of the tree breaking (other than the massive cleanup) was the fact that I was standing about 20 feet from it when it happened. It was really windy, and I had just gotten home. I was standing on the front deck when I heard a big CRACK and saw the tree start to sway. All I could think to do was run in the front door, scream "LOOK OUT" to DH who was sitting on the couch in the living room, and duck an cover in the doorway like you would in an earthquake. We still joke about it (fortunately it fell the opposite way of the house, and other than some smashed rhodies and a lot of work afterwards, there were no major casualties) as all my screaming did was alarm him and he had no idea why I was curled in a ball in the entryway.