← Here it is.
After hot March weather brought everything out too soon, the weather now is more typical, so nights are cold, in the low 40s, sometimes high 30s.
That's holding things back from fully leafing out or bulking up. Hot weather will do wonders.
And some rain will help, it's been so dry. Most plants look a little shriveled, dry and cold.
The pink Knockout rose in the container in the corner of the patio is blooming -- again, it's only early May. So early.
I'm a little worried that this Knockout rose will be too big for this container. it's a big shrub and vigorous. I grew it by the front door in Connecticut and it got really big.
I hope it will stay the right size and look good in this container in a tight corner. My prior one had fragrance, but so far in this cool spring I haven't noticed any.
Without me in the garden to tidy up and arrange the floppers, weed the unwanted, and trim the leftover winter duff, the garden is looking a little sad. But hopeful enough.
Hot weather will come. Rain might or might not come. My foot will heal.
I'll be out to tend things in early July, which seems so far off and well past the spring season, but that's my realistic goal to be able to kneel, get up, carry things and . . . garden.