How Does Your Garden Grow?

The Little Red Squirrel came for a visit and a snack. The kitties were excited to see him.

Storm clouds moving in

The daylilies are blooming

The hydrangea is making an amazing comeback. When it blooms it will make a magnificent show.

The other day, the town decided to chip seal the street. It's a thin layer of heated asphalt covered with small aggregate (chips) and then compacted. It takes a few days to cure. Meanwhile, it's dusty as all get out when cars and trucks roar by.

No one seems to be paying attention to the 15 mph. speed signs tacked up on the telephone poles. I guess the speed signs are more of a suggestion. 

This stuff is really awful with chips flying up and whacking your car. It feels shaky to drive on, too. I remember this method was done on the street Himself and I grew up on. He fell off his bike and cut his knee. No one knew that a tiny chip had embedded itself deep in the cut and then got infected.

This sunflower is almost as tall as I am!

Milkweed flowers

Tiny peppers

A Gerbera daisy?

Morning glories and some thing is feasting on the leaves

Himself weeded the bed under the Japanese maple and put more soil down. The tree roots were so hard and thick, it was hard to plant things under the tree. 

Zinnias

Looks like Himself tree is having problems. It hasn't leafed out the way it should have, and I saw tiny bore holes along the truck. A search for bore holes in ash trees brought up an article about an invasive pest known as an Emerald Ash Borer. Looks like I'll be calling the arborist to see if there's anything that can be done to save the tree plus the other ash trees in the woods.

How does your garden grow?