We are experiencing a heat wave here in New Hampshire. We have no AC in this old house so we have to be judicious in how we keep the heat out. Windows are closed during the day and shades are drawn to keep the hot sunlight out. We open up in the evening and pull the cooler air in with fans.
Gardening in the heat is no fun so this morning I woke after 5 am and was out in the garden by 6 am. I needed to do three things: weed, edge and mulch. Got all those done by 8 am. No photos taken but here is what's blooming now (photos taken yesterday).
I potted this fern which was growing next to the foundation and it's thriving.
This bed is one I weeded and mulched. This is a before photo.
This bed was weeded, edged and mulched today. I don't know what the leaf spikes are. Must wait for blooms.
This flowering shrub or tree is in a mass of bushes that are awaiting the tree/landscape company. Another contractor that we have a signed contract with but who refuses to respond to voicemail or email to let us know where we are in their queue. They told us in April they would be here when the hemlocks budded out. That has happened almost a month ago now.
Anyone recognize the bush?
Another unknown tree?
There is a rose bush among these two kinds of fern. Not excited about having these here.
A view of the field behind us. It was hayed last week and yesterday the hay was bailed and hauled out.
9 comments:
You are doing really well with all the gardening. Your hard work is paying off.
The bush you asked about with the white blossoms looks like mock orange. Do they have a lovely fragrance?
It is not fun gardening in the hot weather. But, the flowers are lovely. You do great work in the yard!
...the leaf spikes are iris. The bush with the white flowers is mockorange! The unknown tre is a shrub dogwood. I just got back from the Adirondacks and it was HOT and DRY. I have millions of ferns and would like bring some home, I will wait until fall to dig some up.
A big, old stand-along home is probably livable sans AC, but we' would fry in our townie.
Your gardening has yielded some very colorful blooms, Marcia. Keeping you home cool in a heat spell can be difficult but you seem to handling it well without a/c. This is something we could not have done in our old VA home as the heat indices and humidity could be overwhelming at times. I was going to say that the spikes look to be iris blooms as Tom already commented.
Is that indigo in the second photo? It's beautiful. And the stand of Siberian iris is breathtaking against the red building.
We don't have AC either but closing the east-facing windows in the morning really helps.
...there a flower bud with the spiky leaves and it sure looks like an iris!
Hi, Had no idea that it could get that hot up there in NH..... We have AC --but hate using it (unless it gets really hot).... So far, this spring, we haven't had to turn it on. BUT--we do have fans around to keep the air circulating....
We have had an extremely WET spring/beginning of summer.... Everything growing outside is REALLY GROWING --including the weeds. We cannot keep ahead of it.... AND---since it has been wet, the bugs are out in full force. Yuck.
Your two unknown plants : 1st one---Sweet Mock-Orange; 2nd one---a Pagoda Dogwood. They are both neat plants/trees/bushes ---so I hope you can keep them. The first time I saw a Mock-Orange, I smelled it first!!!! ha
Have an awesome weekend --and stay COOL.
Hugs,
Betsy
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