There Are Also Flowers in NJ.

6-2-24 SHORT HILLS: We’re back in NJ for many doctor visits before we go to VT for the summer. It was a slow trip with multiple construction delays. 

The weather has been beautiful, but there has been no rain for several days. El Niño is over and La Niña is here, which probably means a hot and dry summer in NJ and VT. At the moment this yard is gorgeous. 

I reset the pool cover pump again, and Judy did trimming in the pool area, which had gotten quite overgrown. 

The wren is busy feeding chicks in the wren house. I tried to get some pix of her and got a short video clip and a couple of her leaving the house. 

New blooms: Japanese snow bell, blue-eyed grass, holly, St. Johns wort, hydrangea, southern magnolia, catalpa, white clover, red spirea, Kousa dogwood.

St. Johns wort, this is the early one. In a week or so the later one opens with a different flower.

First hydrangea flower partially open. It will be all blue soon.

Red spirea. They are generally very reliable shrubs, but have not done well under the bald cypress.

The younger and smaller southern magnolia has many flower buds, which are the tear drop shaped buds. The leaf buds are the candle shaped ones.

As soon as the wren poked her beak out of the house, I snapped the shutter and only her got flying away.

This video shows the wren in the first five seconds, I have tried to cut the rest but it keeps returning like an undead zombie.