More NJ pics, from commntor Bob H.
Here north of Boston, the roses that survive my neglect — Zepherine Drouhan, Don Juan, Jeanne LaJoie — are in glorious bloom, supplemented by a variety of pink-purple-magenta geraniums, including a lovely airy fern-leaved volunteer that pops up wherever the ground’s disturbed. This is the seasonal transition between Spring’s blue-purple-white lilacs, iris, pansies and Summer’s orange-cream-peach hemerocallis. Twenty years of fumbling, and I’m finally beginning to see the garden of my dreams. But the daylilies are already budding, even though traditionally they don’t bloom until mid-July through mid-August.
All but one of the tomatoes seemed to have survived transplanting, and are neatly lined up and laddered in hopes of a productive season. My current project, one trashcan at a time, is cleaning up the newly sunny eight-by-twelve area at the edge of the driveway extension, which would just about double the available space for my “vegetable garden” (containers of tomatoes, herbs & now blueberries).
What’s going on in your gardens this week?