More Rain.

5-31-21 VERMONT: We had more rain yesterday and last night, another 0.8 inches for a total of over one inch in the past few days. It was much needed and any more would be just fine. It’s been cold, highs in the low fifties and low forties over night. Yesterday we had a fire going all day, as we stayed inside and watched the rain. 

A few days ago, it was dry enough so I could plant perennials from Brown’s Nursery. I put four fall-blooming anemones in the bed by the new French doors where the iris that had been there for twenty years didn’t come up, they were, Anemone vitifolia ‘Robustissima’. In the brook, I added two primrose, Primula sieboldii, two bellflowers, Campanula persicifolia ‘Takion Blue’, went in the bed below the deck where some geraniums failed, and a bush clematis, C. Intergrifolia ‘Blue Ribbons’ now lives in the little, north bed below the deck.

One of the hyssop plants was eaten by something, probably chipmunk, but it might re-grow. I have made little cages for two of the hollyhocks that were also partially eaten. They seem to be rebounding, if slowly. 

We go back to NJ tomorrow for a couple of weeks before summering here.

New blooms: Jacobs ladder, Solomons seal.

Here's where we hung out yesterday.

I had to restock the wood pile.

The azaleas are open, usually they're covered in butterflies, but it's too cold and rainy today.

Maizie, always a camera hog.

The brook with primrose and a few other flowers. We hope they'll all spread in and around.

The primrose on the bank of the big pond. I will have to thin out those anemones that are too invasive.