A Warm Day-Happy June & A Few Garden Photos

   Good afternoon, I totally forgot about today being June 1st--soooo Happy June

For sure a June day-humid and high 80's. Warmer tomorrow-but then Tuesday lots more rain coming in. June 5th will be our 43rd wedding anniversary

   I did get mowing done this morning-one large battery for the weed eater, and I worked a bit in the garden. Took a few photos. Hoping to get back to mowing before the sun goes down later today.  

    Tuesday we have huge amounts of rain coming in-sigh. So I am delaying getting flower seeds scattered about til after the worst of it. This coming week on the non rain days-need to also get back to tackling all that mint-ugh

   The milkweed I had planted from seed last year is blooming and has multiplied a bit-love that. and I saw the first butterfly today, and birds using the bird baths. Smiles

  The lavender seed from my old plant that found a spot in the rock wall-is blooming

Milkweed

  

To the left is my new lavender plant-that was a splurge do to the price-but it was a large plant which I thought would give it a good start before winter.  I found those two straggly lavender plants from my original one that I brought over-that was over 25 years old-so it had a good life

 I did purchase one small yellow pear tomato plant when I bought the lavender plant. I was not sure if my seeds were going to grow-but they did-and in the back tubs there are two set ups for sweet black cherry tomatoes that I grew from seed  with the acid reflux I can eat tomatoes as long as they have less acid and are more sweet.

  Now to keep the squirrels and those chipmunks from eating them. I have been looking into garden netting-but then how do their flowers get pollinated?

This is another perennial that made it despite that water leak-not sure what this one is. and to the right of this I have big clumps of yarrow, and few other perennials too

I wintered over two pots of amaryllis bulbs. I was concerned that they may have died as they never started growing in the house before the last freeze-which they usually do.  I set them both outdoors as I didn't think we should get another freeze-and after a week they started to grow.

  The pot to the right is older and has two baby bulbs-all three are just starting to green up with leaves-that makes me happy

Happy June  my friends