Arrived on Friday evening. Bert was already here mowing, etc. Will, Kim and the kids came up on Saturday and spent the night, left after breakfast.
- I was really surprised at how dry everything was. It rained so much last weekend and the entire previous week that I turned off the sprinklers. My pot of fennel was practically dead, I don't know if it will bounce back.
- I spent Saturday morning in the Star Garden pulling weeds. I also watered in the Rose Garden.
- I did more culling - pulling up brown eyed Susans and spent wildflowers in the Rose Garden. I'm hoping that next weekend the Coreopsis seed heads will be dry and I will be able to pull up the plants and spread the seeds. They are at the floppy stage and therefore not pretty.
- I staked a few verbena bonariensis stands. The iris and Montbretia are leaning into the paths in the Star Garden. I kept brushing against them and promising myself I would stake them.
- Zelda, Henry and I picked a bowlful of blackberries.
- Sunday after the kids left, I sprayed herbicide here and there in the Star Garden, the Rose Garden, and the Orchard.
- There are plums all over the ground in the Orchard, and many broken branches. The raccoons have obviously found the plums, and they are decimating them. It's so hot that I can't get up the energy to go down there with a ladder and pick plums. I'm not acclimated to the heat yet and I really suffered all weekend.
- Watered in the Rose Garden throughout the day on Sunday.
- I dug up some plugs of Southern Wood Fern in the Shade Garden that had spread into a path, and I moved it to shady beds in the Star Garden.
- Bert and I got all the sprinklers set up in the Medicine Garden and the Rose Garden. Up until now I have not had the timers on for sprinklers. The hoses have all been rolled up since the winter (except for one that I drag around in the Rose Garden.
- Did some more weeding.
- Headed home Monday morning.
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