After days and days of steady rain, rolling storms, cold nights and cloudy overcast days, the sun is out now, and the rains have stopped. A brilliant, cool, sunny day today.
But it's too wet to dig in the dirt or plant anything. Some things look fine, but other, smaller new plants look very stressed.
The big 'Arp' rosemary's blooms are just going by now.
The spindly aronia 'Iroquois Beauty' looks fresh and green. It's so tiny, though. The flowers were brief but beautiful.
It is in a lot of shade, so that may be keeping it back. I probably should mass several to get any effect. They are supposed to be 2 to 3 feet tall and just as wide. They have an open-branched look, kind of twiggy, but really, mine should be much fuller and bigger after all these years.
This little Mount Atlas daisy, planted just last year, is looking cute. A little hard to see in the rocks, and it's a ground hugging plant you need to visit close up, but nice.
The flowers close up at night, showing pink undersides, but open in the sunshine.
And a new columbine has shown up under the Japanese maple. It's a combination of the tiny red Little Lanterns and the big elegant yellow Swallowtail columbines, naturally hybridized.
How sweet.