July Garden
In the July Quimper garden, the Williams’ Bon Chrétien pears are getting bigger and shiny…
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…and the Quince is getting bigger and fuzzy!
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The lawn is drying up after not being watered for two months (watering restrictions started May 1) but the clover is growing. A friend said it looks like a bee sanctuary!
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The Sweet Peas are thriving…
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…so is the stump garden with a bit of help from the watering can…
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and look at the Echinacea!
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You take such beautiful photos! Thank you for sharing your July Garden…so refreshing and pretty.
We spend lots of time in the garden in summer…weeding, picking flowers, sometimes just thinking encouraging thoughts…I love taking the Hittys out there, they see things from a totally different angle!
Beautiful July garden even with the water restrictions.
We are allowed to water by hand any time, so the flower beds are doing OK!
What a great way to help the bees. Clover sanctuaries.
It is a different way to think about the lawn – we love it, and so do the bees!
the Quimper garden is glorious! The Country Hittys are doing a valiant (but probably doomed) battle with the voracious Japanese Beetle. We shall just have to enjoy YOUR gardening success
How difficult to have a voracious pest in your garden, at least we can fence our voracious and trampling deer out…good luck with the vanquishment of the beetles.
Beautiful garden! Hope it survives despite the watering restrictions.
Thanks very much our garden watering restrictions are quite reasonable – we are permitted to water with a sprinkler on Wednesdays and Sundays, but with a hand-held sprayer or watering can any time. If we were in a forest fire zone we’d pay more attention to the lawn, (keeping it green and damp would protect the house better) but as it is we just let the grass dry up in summer…On the plus side, we don’t have to mow it, and the bees enjoy the clover!
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