It's summer and the garden is in full colour. It's green and lush with every day new lots flowers coming into bloom...such a joy, both to look at and have for cut flowers for the house.
Pink peonies - a bloom before the rain came on....
Alchemilla mollus or Lady's mantle, grows everywhere.
Rose along side of the house. Other roses are doing well but got rain bashed after only a couple of days' showy blooms (as we had a genuine (!) heat-wave a couple of weeks ago).
White sweet pea bush ... just starting to come out. Genus and species? Possibly Lathyrus latifolius White Pearl Everlasting Pea Perennial. It has no perfume but grows vigorously every year producing fistfulls of flowers for every vase in the house.
Erygium (Sea Holly). I have several species which always do well.
Fennel plants which seeded themselves after I started planting them from my own seeds several years ago
Cotonus 'Royal Purple' Smoke Bush. I have another one which is smaller with green leaves. I saw them first in Vacouver in gardens out by UBC gates.
Crocosmia lucifer. I gave everything liquid fertilizer this year and this, among others, is goisng to be a blaze of colour.
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Meanwhile I have been doing some chores. With the help of YouTube I have learned how to use a power screwdriver. About 5 years ago Iain and Ishbel made a trim for the garden shed using cedar shakes. It has now had a few bashes and so I am replacing them as I found a bag of them in the garage.
I use this shed a lot both for storing the spades etc but also as a 'table' where I can work, i.e. plant seeds and a 'repository' as I tend to mislay tools and garden gloves.
Once I learn what the tools are called I can then watch a video on how to use them.
The cedar shakes are now replaced so now they just need to be painted.
I manage fine with the power screwdriver. When I use my sewing machine I find the hardest thing to sew is a straight line; the hardest part of getting the screw in the wood is to have it go in 'straight'!
I have just noticed... about a year ago I replaced that black catch on the left-hand shed door and it is still going strong!
