Blue Cavern

It has been raining and raining here for so long that all my peonies were drooped over so I ended up picking them. I think it has rained at some point in the day every day here for the whole month of June!

They are looking really nice, Norma

I've heard that the North has been getting some yucky weather...I think when it left us in the South it didn't move very far. Hope, July will be a dry month for y'all

I am not sure we had any rain at all for the month of June...I am sure we had some but it wasn't much...all we are having a record highs

They look lovely.

I'm not much for flowers, but since they were taking a beating outside, at least they'll live the rest of their lives in a nice warm and loving enviroment.

They look very nice Norma.

We have had very nice weather now for a week and everything look wonderful in the garden.

We have one of these peony which we here call dillpeony. The leafs looks like dill. Have you seen that one?

/André

Thanks for the sunny weather wishes!! It's been so rainy up here that some of my tomato plants and my begonias are rotting. My daughter and I went strawberry picking yesterday and it was a very poor crop, all moldy and rotten. What a shame. Andre, I haven't seen a peony like the one you describe, I would love to see a picture!

Lovely flowers Norma, it rained here on Saturday night - infact it rained, hailed, thundered..now it's back to glorious sunshine -

Norma,

our dill-peony looks like this today. Not much to look at now because the flowers are already gone. But you can look for Paeonia Tenuifolia on internet and see what it looks like when it flowers. It gets both plena( with filled flowers) and the normal one( without the filled flowers).

/André

I have strawberries for you on picture Norma. I planted these all the way beside our driveway years ago and now we have a lot of them.

Just that you have to get there before the children have been there.

They tell us we will have sunshine and hot weather for at least 2 more weeks so it is great because I have holiday now.

But we have to water everything a lot offcourse.

/André

And Norma,

Can you imagine the smell of honeysuckle? Great to have at the entrance or on a porch.

Honeysuckle on one side and roses on the other.




/André

Here are the pond today.

Everything is green now so you have like a roof of roses, hazel and willow over your head. This tree is actually a rosebush and will soon be covered with creamywhite roses.

Under it we have my wifes favourites, martagon lilies.

/André

In the greenhouse the flowers have reached all the way to the woolbirds now. Everything in there is growing fast now.



I wish you all happy holidays and now I will return to the sunshine.

/André

@Norma: The flowers are lovely.

@Andre: Your garden looks terrific. Just wish I would be in Sweden right now.

Andre, Thank you so much for your sunny garden tour!! You have a beautiful garden! I think the sun came out for all of 5 minutes today and now it's back to more rain......So I will go have another look at your pictures!!! Thanks again for posting them!

I hope you get sunny weather soon Norma.

We have had cold and rainy days in may and in the beginning of June.

They actually told us that the beginning of June was the coldest since the 40s. So it was nice to finally get warm and sunny weather.

/André

You certainly have made a beautiful place out of it...it's great to see pictures of your place during the summer months after seeing pictures of it during the winter months:D

I bet it's also beautiful in fall when the leaves are changing colors

How far out in the country do you live? It looks so peaceful place (or so it was before the chicks moved in )

Beautiful flowers Norma and Andre! I love flowers.

Good morning Maureen,

the garden look great in the fall also. Our neighbours had a really large mapletree next to our garden before. And there is nothing like mapleleaves in the fall, when the colours are changing. But the tree got some kind of decease and it is gone now.

Therefore we have planted 3 kinds of mapletrees, and these kinds don´t get as big as the normal one. Paperbark maple, Field maple and one I can´t find the english name for ( Acer tataricum). We also have a lot of flowers which looks lovely in the fall. I don´t know all of the names ( I have to ask my wife, she´s the expert ) but one I like is perennial phlox.

I can take more pictures in september so you can see for yourself.

By the way that damn fox was here again and tried to get the chickens.
It also has tried to get inside the cage for the rabbit. We had to chase it away but I guess it will be back soon. Nothing like the taste of fresh chicken.

/André