8-24-22 VERMONT: Well, the Vermont part of our summer is almost over, we will be in NJ by Labor Day. We have had scattered showers here the last few days, but no significant accumulation. Most of the showers don’t get the ground wet under the trees and shrubs. I have been spending a lot of time watering.
I got more hollyhock seeds from neighbors, Valerie and Fred. I made a new bed on the far side of the pond between two stands of Joe Pye weed for the hollyhock and transferred the pots to the new bed, filled around the potting soil from the pots with new potting soil and spread the rest of the seeds. From the first batch of 50 or 60 seeds, I got three little seedlings. That seems like a low rate of germination, but we’ll see.
The three tall clocks all went to the clock repairman from Randolph. I still look at the empty cases for the time but only see the empty bonnet. The canine fence people have been here three times and need to come back again. The split-rail fence repairmen were also here to do work on that fence, and they may have damaged the canine fence.
Addie and I have been weeding the beds, mostly Addie. We have added to the upper terrace bed perennials—swamp milkweed, coreopsis, liatris and ironweed. Shrubs also got planted there—weigela, butterfly bush, and an abelia.
We went to Cloudland Farm for an anniversary dinner with cousin John. When Lily and friends were here we went to Saap, a Thai restaurant in Randolph that won the James Beard award for all of New England. That may sound unlikely, but it was excellent, and the law students, fresh off high-paying internships, treated us!
Sadly, Judy and I started putting lawn furniture away.
New blooms: white star clematis, pink turtlehead, sedum.
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