NJ Stay.

6-23-15 SHORT HILLS: It was an awful trip down on Sunday with multiple traffic jams. Lucy went home to Brooklyn via Midtown Direct on Monday morning. I got lots of Fathers Day calls Sunday night. It is hotter and much more humid in NJ than VT. It rained Sunday night and the next morning there was 4 inches in the rain gauge—that’s a lot of rain for one week.

Frank’s Tree was here to do pruning work. The ash trees are threatened by an insect that clogs up their vascular system. We will feed them in the Fall, which delays the progress of the disease.

New blooms: southern magnolia, beautyberry, tutsan, winterberry holly, rosebay rhododendron, daylily, hydrangea.


Hydrangea with bumble bee.

Southern magnolia.

Tutsan, Hypericum androsaemum, very similar to H. perforatum, St. John's wort.

Rosebay rhododendron.

Hydrangea, blue tint.

hydrangea, red tint, just getting started.

Daylily, the ones in VT will only be a few days later.