Gardening with Soule

 

  After a couple of well needed rainy days, the weather has been wonderful.
These past two days, it’s hot but with low humidity so you can actually enjoy being outdoors.Â
 I was finally able to catch up on my yard work and see what is going on out there.Â
I have plenty of blooms putting on their [...]

The flowers in my yard are just loving this hot summer we are having.Â
 We finally had a couple of thunderstorms over the past few days with heavy rain, so many plants were bent over with the weight of water. 

 This is something these plants are not used to.  Â
 I think it helped way more than it hindered [...]

 It’s mid July, time to see what’s going on in our gardens for Garden Blogger’s Bloomsday.  It’s also Fertilizer Friday!

I have a lot blooming,

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so it makes it hard to believe my yard and gardens are showing the stress of very little rain
and extremely high temperatures.
   My grass is brown in spots

and some of my plants have given in to the [...]

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The temperatures are in the high 90’s to low 100’s here for the past week or so.Â
The heat is one thing, but the humidity makes it so hard to breathe. 

It’s hard to find a spot that is cool to stay in unless you are in front of an air conditioner.
  Although most of my plants [...]

There are so many different flowers.Â
I even had a tomato that turned red.Â
Unfortunately, the critters that live amongst us decided it would be great fun to pick, take a bite or two and leave in the dirt to rot.Â
 I am not sure if it’s squirrels or chipmunks.
Devils, I ‘d say.  They have pulled up [...]

I  had a bunch of fun taking pictures today for this post.Â
There are so many colors to take in right now.Â
Just when I think how sad it is that a certain flower is done blooming,
 another steps up and takes it’s place.
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This lily is so bright and vibrant
   …and huge!  Â
 My rose “hot cocoa” has begun to [...]

We have been really enjoying the gardening so far this year.
We have had great weather up until the past week or so.Â
 We have returned to cold wet weather all this week.Â
 I’ts nice for a change, but everything that was parched is now quenched so the sun and warm weather can return now as far as I [...]

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There are many happy flowers growing in my garden to spite the lack of rain we have had. Â
I am having a baby shower on the twelfth and a graduation party on the 19th so I have been sprucing up the gardens so they can be enjoyed by everyone.
My fear is that  we will get [...]

This is my favorite time of year.Â
 There are so many colors and fragances.

I thought I would give bigger views this week of what’s blooming here.
There’s plenty to see.Â
The bees and the birds have been very busy this week.  It’s nice to see all the activity in the yard.Â
I have a chipmunk in my garden [...]

  The sun was shining and it got to be 80 degrees today, with a nice breeze.

 Perfect garden weather. 

There was so much to photograph. 

 It was hard to choose only a few of them for this post.

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Hopefully nice weather is here to stay.  

~Who would have thought it possible that a tiny little flower
could preoccupy a person so completely [...]