Spring Beauties
Baptisia 'Purple Smoke' We are experiencing a rare day for June - drizzle and cool temps. But oh, things will change this weekend with 93 predicted for Sunday. I'm not looking forward to that. We decided to take a break from the garden today because of the weather and the fact that we've been working our butts off. Our garden will be on the HPSO Study Weekend tour at the end of the month so there is much to get done. I would normally schedule tours of our garden now in early June because I feel that it the peak time ( (and you can make individual appointments). For the Study Weekend tour, thank goodness for hydrangeas to give them something to look at! I've been filling holes and pots, Michael has been pruning and dead-heading. A few days ago, we completely redid a rock retaining wall which just about did us in. The weather has been lovely and I do hope the heat spell is a short-lived one. Here are some highlights in the garden now. Peony 'White Cap' Ros...
Wait, pet cemetery? Did you say "pet cemetery"? The garden has a pet cemetery?! Yikes!
ReplyDeleteThat Japanese garden looks very impressive. I have to go take some pictures of a secret Japanese garden in downtown San Francisco I heard about recently.
Yes, there was a pet cemetery. It was a small circle with about 10-12 graves of pets.
ReplyDeleteWow, real tombstones for her pets. She's not buried there, too, is she?
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with you on the Japanese garden. Now that's one worth cultivating!
Her ashes are placed at the bottom of the obelisk type feature in the rose garden.
DeleteMark me down as thinking the pet cemetery is a *fabulous* garden feature! You just don't expect a pet cemetery! Suddenly, I think if I had a big garden (really big) , I would like to have in it somewhere a small pet cemetery--even if it was fake.
ReplyDeleteAt the San Francisco Flower and Garden show this year, an exhibitor built a small landscape of poisonous plants, subtly adorned here and there with distressed tombstones.