Ninety.

5-31-13 VERMONT: Another hottie, we got up to ninety today. I was out this morning for fertilizer and ended up with a couple new plants that went into the beds behind the new house. Two black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia, ‘Cherry Brandy’, as the name implies, have red flowers. It’s marginally hardy for Vermont, we’ll see. I also added another Phlox paniculata, ‘Pink Flame’. I watered and fertilized the tomatoes.

Yesterday I saw five turtles on the edge of the pond, all sunning at the same time.

New blooms: Siebold viburnum, celandine, buttercup.


Bunchberry, another two incher, does it look familiar? Its cousin is the dogwood tree, and its leaves and flower looks quite similar.