Good morning, and happy summer. Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.
Denver's odd weather has continued this week. Although we finally got a couple of days without rain, overall it's been cloudy and cool — or downright cold. On Tuesday the high was only 52°.
We've had off and on cloud cover, wind, thunderstorms, rain. What we haven't had is consistent sunshine.
So, I took a week off work to catch up on gardening but have only been able work sporadically. I mean, the stretches of sunshine haven’t been long enough for me to worry about getting a sunburn — and I sunburn really easily.
And now, to top it off, I get to start the summer and end my vacation time with a cold.
Oh well, at least I finally managed to get a Princess Victoria Louise oriental poppy to survive. I've been trying to for years; this is the fourth or fifth one I've planted; well worth the effort, I think.
The cool, wet weather has really played hell on my plantings, though. I've had seedlings drown before I could get them in the ground; root rot developing on the potted begonias; the clitoria got too cold and, while not dead, the foliage was damaged; the brugmansia seem to be hibernating.
Cool and damp is to be the story through the holiday weekend — highs staying in the 60s with more clouds and rain.
Jeez, another topsy-turvey year: warm winter, cold spring.
But we are going into June; the weather will get better, right?
Right?
That's what's happening here. What's going on in you garden.