Rainy VT.

7-9-14 VERMONT: We just made it here in time for a delicious dinner at Donna and Bruce’s yesterday, Phyllis and Arnie were there also. We had been in NJ for a week, but collected 2.3 inches of rain here, and then another 0.6 last night and a bunch more this afternoon and evening.

Melissa brought us a couple garden surprises today. First there was a yellow lady’s slipper from her collection. I planted it in a mini-fen of peat moss and lime in a wet spot under the eaves. She also gave us some maiden-hair ferns and a clomp of toad lilies, Tricyrtis. They too went into wet, shady spots.

Otherwise there was weeding and dead-heading of peonies.

New blooms: hosta, native daylily, mallow, hydrangea, filipendula, astilbe, hollyhocks, purple rain salvia, Russian sage, yarrow, campanula.


Daylily in Vermont.

Hollyhocks seem early.

Astilbe. This cherry color is one of many vivid or pastel colors.