It's been a bit of a funny spring weather-wise this year. More rain and less heat than last year so our garden isn't doing as well as we thought it might.
The front area is actually getting more sunlight than we thought it would so the Bizzie Lizzie's (impatients) at the front are suffering a bit. No pictures as who wants to look at poor sick little flowers? What we need to do is replace them with Vinca's (Bizzie Lizzie's that tolerant the sun). We just haven't gotten to that quite yet.
The weeds, blown in from the HOA-kept lawn adjacent to our plot, are doing well especially as we were a bit slow in spraying them.
Things are a bit mixed in the back. Most everything is a bit slow in getting going. We've got some weeds which we haven't dealt with yet. But nothing has died so that's good.
The remodel both inside and outside the house drained us so much that we have been slow to start a proper routine of garden maintenance.
Here is the second flower we've had on our gardenia and you can probably see there are more buds to come. Even so I don't quite think it deserves it's name as 'Ever-blooming Gardenia'. There was a definite gap between the first and the second flowers.
One of the stars of the garden though is our pink Hibiscus. This beautiful plant has been pumping out flowers from day one.
Another star are the peas vines. They are reaching for the stars and producing lovely sweet peas.
The rest of the vegetables have struggled. After two months the lettuce were only one quarter of an inch high and are now completely in the shade of the peas. The tomatoes have produced two tomatoes. The carrots have also struggled to barely break through the surface.
The nursery says we might have over-watered the tomatoes but also said the leaves look like they might be under-watered. Apparently they are talking to quite a few people whose veggies are struggling this year due to the weather. So we don't feel so bad.
June is looking gorgeous so far (no sign of June gloom) so maybe the garden will perk up a bit more in the coming weeks. Meanwhile I'm off to eat some more of those peas.
