After a snowless winter and rainless March, we got a quarter inch of rain on April first. Not much, but it was a gentle rain that lasted most of the day and soaked things. Today, nippy and clear, everything sparkles.
How I want to get out there and trim things and arrange stuff and pot up the Radio Red salvias . . . and
. . . I can't.
The bush clematis started growing up through the mesh of the table. Maybe that would work to keep the stems up off the ground?
Jim managed to get out on the step to pull the big stems back with a bungee cord. It wasn't easy for him, his stability while twisting or moving without support is poor. But he did it.
The stems are stiffly tied, but the plant is so rampant it may flop over anyway, or at least fill out and arch over, and some stems may still grow up through the table. Or it may all collapse.
Irises are well on their way now, both the white ones and the peach colored ones I got from Andrea.
The rosemary is blooming, although not much yet, and it is slated for removal when I can get Jeronimo here. It really has gotten to be an awkward shape and hard to pass by on the walkway.
As always, rain makes the garden look clean and fresh, and sunshine enhances it. The patio cushions are soaked, so I can't sit out there to enjoy any of it. And it's too chilly anyway.
Which is just as well -- I can't do a thing out there on my scooter and it drives me crazy.