Today's Weather in Your Garden - 22

We had lighting bugs too - and power out for 2 hours. Hung out on the back steps with the neighbors - it was kind of fun...

Mike we start in the upper 70's to low 80's this time of year. I am northeast of somewhere. Anyways you don't just go from 60-70 degrees and pop to a hundred or even 90's without some preperation of the body temps after the dreaded WINTER!!! I need to be conditioned for that flux.

79 and very nice. Hot in the sun but there is a nice breeze and puffy cumulus clouds.

That IS a pretty radical jump, shickenlady !!!

We get weird spells like that sometimes, too, but usually just for two days or so.

It was 92 degree's here late yesterday afternoon(around 5) when DH & I headed to town for Chinese food. Within 45 - 60 minutes the sky got very dark, the wind had picked up and the temperture had bottomed out to 65 degrees. I had to put pants on to eat my meal!

Today we started the day at 55...we are now at 75 and expected to reach 80. Much better than the 90's, I can live with it.

For all the sound and fury of last night, we got less than 1/4 inch of rain. Bummer.

Pixie, you went out to eat with no pants? Har har.

85 and gorgeous here. The hammock is calling.

We suffered through some nasty temps, but the nasty storms went north & south of us---just got lovely, cooling rain--you could hear the plants sigh--lightning bugs, too. I know why school was dismissed early---if you think your house is hot, try packing 25 hot,( little or big!) bodies in a small room where the windows only open a crack! Glad my last 5 yrs. were spent in the HS where there was a/c. When I first strarted teaching, I had huge windows that opened all the way--then on to the newer school , where the architect should be made to stay in those classrooms where the temp is 100---of, course, the office is always a/ced! My roses have opened--here is Morden Sunrise.

Yes I did Harper! LOL We did take out and I had shorts and a tank on...but had to change to eat.

And a huge William Baffin that was chopped down 2 yrs ago when we had the house painted.

85 and sunny. Though better than the past few days, it's still real hot in the sun. Put some veggies in (finally) and started getting some containers back on the patio and was dying in the sun. Very nice, Robin! You should post them on the blooms thread we have going.

It hit 90 today. Breezy and a little humid.

Whatever happened to the upper 70's??????

I miss the upper 70's! Yesterday it was 98' here - ugh! Today is better at about 82'

That's nor so bad, Bre. Pushing 90 here. I think we hit 99 yesterday. Awful. I'm definitely a spring & fall person!

And Dave wants to move right on to July! What's with that Dave (wherever you are)?

Robin, those roses are gorgeous. Learning to grow roses is on my "to do" list. The long one, not the short one.

Laurel

Temp. more comfortable, but I still came inside in the middle of the day, & moved around to beds in the shade to do weeding.Just a bit of rain, sound more than water.

I conked out this afternoon. I was getting Charlie Horses in both legs. I have been drinking tons of water, but perhaps not enough. It got to 84 today.

Victor, Yikes, 99. No thanks Hope you spent some of the day in the pool.

I did cut off some ugly brown dead branches off the rug junipers and cleaned up more spring bulb foliage that has finally gone by. I then dead headed a spirea BEFORE it bloomed. I hate the pink flowers with the lovely chartreuse leaves. Sinful. I found one that supposedly has white flowers with the same leaf color. I planted a small one and will swap it if it proves to be so. I do hope it is a good one. Here is the gal that got a pre-bloom shave today. Spiraea japonica Goldmound. She is well behaved here, no seedlings. But to me, a most disagreeable flower color in combination to the leaf. Patti

Temp 82.9°, wind W 0.0 mph, Rh 38%. ☺

- No rain last night, looks like another dry summer here. Began to add a silicone agent to my bonsai when watering to increase tolerance to heat & drought.

I know what you mean Patti. I'm not big on pink and green together, particularly if the green is yellow-ish.

I never liked it on Goldflame, where the foliage is very bright gold/yellow.

72 here according to the thermometer and it looks like a high layer of clouds. I was hoping for a clear sky so temps drop into the 50s tonight. We didn't get much rain with the storms last night and things are terribly dry - again. As much as I like the nice weather, we could use a day or two of a steady rain.

Clear sky here!

Here too!

If you're looking west Harper, that's MY sky!

I have Gold Flame in Vt. I cut those off too. Having a mellow yellow sunset here. Lovely. Patti

I have a hill and tall trees to the left. It's a real bummer on beautiful sunset days.

Nanegoat....not much of a sea beeze here. I'm up the creek from the sound. Right around the corner (that very dangerous corner) from Ponds in fact. "Unilever" just doesn't sound right, does it? You can tell who has worked there or lived here all their life. It's always "Ponds".

I like pink and green but maybe if I saw it....

Patti:
I have the yellow spirea w/pink flowers and had the same reaction,- - - nice iris by the way, I 'm not fond of the pink and yellow
DD is in charge of pruneing so it won't get touche it until it finishes blooming, as well as bringing the overgrown 20 year old Vibernums back to a nice shape.
There are two things I am not allowed to .do,based on last falls disaster with one Vibernum I "over trimmed" and guilt forced me to replace it with a JM , not allowed to use the prunners or be seen with the Roundup tank,I won't go into the reason why you can guess.
I just design the gardens and put in the plants.
I know this isn't the hosta thread but visited the neighbor,here is one of her beds.

66 and gorgeous. Heading for 76 seasonal degrees.

Patti - nice hosta shot. That hosta thread has me drooling, too.

David - Ha! You're right - 'Unilever' never even entered my mind! Does it still flood under that bridge?

68 and beautiful.

68 and beautiful.

A beautiful morning--my DH off to K-port, me getting ready to paint beadboard in kitchen. Thanks for the tip on the bloom thread, Victor. Laurel, I think growing roses in the southern states is difficult--I planted a Knockout in our FL yard, & that seemed to do well. Up here, I look for zone 4, easy care--don't like to spray, but I had to - flea beetles would eat every leaf on the William Baffin & the Morden sunrise. Patti--nice spirea--very mounded--that's one plant I never tried.

80 fun, wonderful degrees! The sun is hot but the air is nice.

84 and fantastic!! Sunny, blue sky, humidity at 56%, 4 mph breeze.... Ahhh. I feel like I'm in California. Now if only I could smell Jasmine in the air.

83 and sunny. Nice day for chilling, but still too hot to work for me. Just finished and it was real hot in the sun. The sun is so intense this time of year. You can get a sunburn real fast. That all-over tan I had in mind might be a bit painful...

Finally opened the pool this AM. When you have a mesh cover the water is literally black when you open. It was much darker than this shows.

78.6 here with breezes at 5 MPH but also too hot in the sun.