Summer 2026 - Garden Update
Summers here are intense. Our last frost date is mid June and this year the temperatures stayed on the cooler side, delaying the transplant of annuals. It also delayed outside work generally speaking as single digit daily temperatures persisted. I was so very glad when the Pink Saxifrage started blooming in June. It was as if it looked up at the gray skies and said, "You don't frighten me, you silly English type!" By June in many other parts of the country, spring is long done. Not so here. The lilac bushes wouldn't start blooming until early July. between cold weather and rain, I was still transplanting annuals and seedling perennials well into July. I decided that next spring, I will start my annuals later than recommended. I ran out of pots and room in my studio and some seedlings spent far to long in confinement, so to speak, and struggled as a result. New annuals (for me) this year included Borage, Lobelias (p Sapphire and White), inca Peri...
