The Arbor

In The Dead Heat of Summer .....

Man is it hot! Every day for the past month has been one hundred degrees, sometimes more. Somehow I have managed to keep my garden and lawn alive - for the most part. There have been causualties. I can't wait for cooler weather. I'm not adding any plants at this point, just trying to water and keep alive what I already have. Fall will bring the chance to create new spaces and plantings. One thing I am very happy about is the new arbor that replaced the leaning tower of Casey. I will reccomend never to buy an arbor off of Amazon.com. I paid $200 for what was supposed to be a $500 cedar arbor and what I got was $7 worth on cheap wood, some screws and an arbor that looked NOTHING like the picture. So I went to Lowe's and got what I really wanted a squar cedar arbor. I loooooove it. I am going to stain all the wood and even the fence the same color. I can't wait. Well I can. I am going to wait till its not so hot to do all this staining. Here are some recent pictures.

The New Mail Boxes

For my birthday of all things, I wanted a new mail box. So my wonderful husband and my little brother put them up for me. Sadly our neighbors are renters so we had no choice but to pay to replace both of them. I filled the raised bed with 2 Texas Lantana, 2 Pride of Barbados, and then a couple of other plants whose names escape me. Here are the pictures.

July Photos

Just Add Water

Summer Garden

Summer garden has been a challange for me so far. We are in stage 3 water restrictions and it has been well over 100 degrees every day. Some of my plants are thriving such as my Vinca (Perrywinkle), Lantana, Climbing Roses and Zennias. I just about cried when I had to rip out my glorious Snapdragons. I put some inexpensive plants in those raised beds just to get through the heat of summer,  then I am going to till up the soil and plant some show stoppers again. Here are some pictures of my summer garden.

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