I did finish weeding through the rock garden yesterday. Here's the top half today.
And that same view at the end of June when I got home from New York.
It's interesting. In these long shots, the messy one from June almost looks nicer, but not really. Here's why. There were several yellow sedums blooming, so those were colorful. But the geranium and some of the sedums were simply overtaking a lot of the other plants and completely hiding them from view. And trying to crowd/shade them out of existence. It's a cruel world in the botanical wars.
Also, being gone in June means that the several dianthus didn't get deadheaded, so those mostly haven't rebloomed and I pretty much missed seeing them this year.
But I hope you can tell that the picture of it cleaned up shows more textural differences, and that you can see patches of some of the purple and deep red foliage plants. It's interesting how it is hard to see some of the beauty in a photo. When you are standing in the same place the picture was taken it looks much more interesting.
Here is the bottom of the rock garden today.
And at the end of June.
At any rate, I'm very happy to have it all weeded. Apparently the second half of June is a rather critical couple of weeks for crazy growth of aggressive plants.
I'll share some other closeup sections in days ahead as other things begin to bloom.
The vendor event was a bust. But I worked on the little knitting project that I can't show you yet while I was there. There were so few potential customers I didn't even feel guilty doing that.
In other news, I'm tired and achy. Not sure why- humidity? just one of those days?
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