6-17-26 VERMONT: It’s been cool since that last rain. More rain predicted for tomorrow and possibly all weekend. After the drought last summer, I don’t ever complain about too much rain. Technically it’s not summer yet anyway.
I forgot to mention a few flowers in the previous post: rodgersia, bishops weed, wild daisy, yarrow. Apologies to those plants, no slight intended.
The lawn mowers were here this morning and nipped some of the flowers. I’ll have to scold them and add some fencing to the beds.
We had neighbor Diana over for dinner a few evenings ago. Her husband Steve is at fiddle camp.
The dogs woke us up 5 AM, a few minutes before the sunrise this morning. I took a pic while in bed and half asleep through the open, screened window.
New blooms: spider wort, foxglove, ninebark ‘Diablo’, maple leaf viburnum, blue-eyed grass, masterwort, white gas plant, rose plants by the fence.
Orange sky at 5:10, the sun came up about a minute later. It was between Mt. Lafayette and Moosilauke on the north-east horizon.
Lupin are hard to get started because they are easily pushed out by more aggressive plants. They are legumes and so are able to take nitrogen out of the air, which means they can grow where those aggressive plants cannot. To get these to grow and come back, I dug a pit and filled it with sand [no soil], a hostile habitat that lupin likes.
Foxglove, source of digitalis, that was a commonly used medication that is almost never used anymore. I had a Medical Professor, while in training, who said that Digitalis glycoside killed more people every year than Homicide.
Wild daisies are pretty, but the Shasta, garden daisies are more showy, and will show up soon.
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