This week’s challenge: try to find 6 things without mentioning lack of water and hot weather………..ππ―π€..?…No, sorry, I’ve failed the challenge.
1)

One of the smaller cracks in the lawn as indicated by the Garden Supervisor.
2)

The roses are still flowering away and looking beautiful. For the first time in years, I have been watering them as well as the rest of the garden.
3)

The rudbeckia is starting to flower now and looking healthy – well most of it is.
4)

Although they are not quite ready to flower, the sedums have a slightly ghostly look to them, but very pretty, I think, and worth including.
5)

I have been watering these runner beans more frequently than any other plants but the leaves are scorched and the blackfly have taken over completely. So, I bought a couple of hand sprayers from Amazon – with good reviews – and put in the soapy water with a pinch of cayenne pepper but after a couple of squirts, they gave up! I resorted to drilling the spray holes, but a couple of squirts again and they gave up. I think I will give up too.π‘π€¬π«
6)


As I mentioned last week, two of our huge grandsons trimmed all the front lavender hedge, then cleared the back patio of the weeds between the blocks. They were very helpful. They were also quite relieved when our neighbour’s brother took his hedge cutter further down the riverbank and cleared our weeds as well.
That’s it again. We will keep throwing our “grey water” on the garden and keep trudging up and down with the watering cans. Unfortunately, those helpful grandsons have gone, so it is down to GGHI and me to keep the plants alive. The washing machine is still going, four loads yesterday and another couple today. The house is quiet and tidy but rather lonely now.
Have a good weekend in your garden. π©βπΎπΊπ πΉπ¦ππ¦πββ¬π€