Memorial Day Wedding.

5-22-26 SHORT HILLS: Jon, Siobhan, Morgan, Eoin, and Joe are here for the weekend and are exploring NYC today. Sunday is Lily and Danna’ s wedding. An exciting weekend to come. 

All the house plants are now on summer holiday in the yard. We needed help from the lawn guys to get the big ones outside. We had 0.35 inches of rain. 

While in VT, we went to Hinesburg to see Ken and Jane. They have done an extraordinary job of renovating their house, with more to come. We also worked in another superb dinner at Cloudland Farm before coming back to NJ.

Our hot spell is over and temps are back in the sixties.

New blooms: peony, tree peony, Japanese snowball, winter berry holly.  

Tree Peony. This one opened first, before the true peony and before several other ones opened.

Peony opened this morning. It is a single peony. most people are more familiar with the double form.

Japanese snowball tree has thousands of these delicate, hanging flowers on all its branches.