I wish your location was noted, primula.

LOL, rosa, you always make me smile - "knitting season"! :)

I guess we all have other things that get put aside during gardening season, and vice versa when we can't get out in the garden!

:)

Dee

I wished too hard. It's been such a long rainy season this year, that I wished my plants would get some heat and sun. We're slated for 12 days in the 80s and 23 days in the 90s for the next 45 days. And even then, we're to hit triple digits this weekend and the days in the 80s? Upper 80s. I think everything is about to wilt. Majorly. Including me! Sure not thinking about knitting. Someone is appreciating your roses, even if you don't get to.

How do I add my location?

and what is your location Rob? And how do you get such a long term weather forecast? How reliable is it? I don't even find the 7 day forecast reliable.

Extended wet (and cold) spring here too (Anchorage, AK). Now we have a beautiful sunny day and I'm grumpy because I've neglected to work in April and May and now the weeds have gotten a solid head start. Where oh where is my beautiful blue poppy? Hidden behind the self seeders and spreaders like geraniums, trollius, forget me nots, ferns, violets, and the dreaded horsetail. Grass has gotten into another area because I neglected my edging last summer due to dismal weather. Lots of work ahead, or I just accept the new status quo and enjoy it as a thing of its own accord, out of my control - it is pretty .

You can put it after your rosaprimula. zone and location really help others.State, country or Provence really helps.

RP, have you successfully banished Suzy Jackson then? Glad to see you got the moniker back!

If Suzys gone im ever so glad!

i wondered who this new girl on the block was. there really wasnt room for another hyperverbal, extra knowkegable sassy poster. good riddance, i say, and welcome back

Middle Tennessee. Accuweather! They live up to their name. Dang close

Yep, I think Suzy has been banished into some unknown cyberhaunt. TBF, I still miss campanula - still my name on my only other message board but sets off all sorts of alarms on Houzz..

Another dismal weekend...

I abandoned even the tiniest attempt at considered placement and shoved as many of the annuals into the ground in the handy space which had been occupied by a million love-in-the mist. A mad jumble of callistephus, zinnia, tithonia, strawflowers and clary sage. It will be snail fodder or a garish eyesore...but they are out of the greenhouse and out of my sight...I have surrendered to the weather gods...but indoors, I have filled every available vessel with nigella, moon daisies, cornflowers and roses.

I am only going back outside to do a blight spray then that's it - am going to hunker down with the sweetheart and watch the national humiliation in the Euros (football/soccer). A month of watching manly men doing manly things with a ball. Writhing, moaning, groaning, shouting at the ref, swearing... and that is just those of us watching at home.

"... I abandoned even the tiniest attempt at considered placement and shoved as many of the annuals into the ground in the handy space which had been occupied by a million love-in-the mist. ..."

OMG, rosa, I did the EXACT same thing yesterday! Ripped out an area of nigella that has reseeded and planted half-dead strawflowers, brown-spotted and wilted zinnias, and bent-over, lanky cosmos, all of which were struggling for survival in their cramped little milk jugs.

I was sad to see the nigella go, but rather proud of myself because I usually don't have the heart to be so ruthless. Truth be told, I'm just sick and tired of all the milk jugs of stuff sitting in my driveway waiting, longing, begging to be planted. Three zinnias in one small planting hole? Sure, why not? Who cares at this point lol. No regard to color combinations, bloom times, height differences - nope, just get those suckers in the ground.

I do still have jugs of tithonia, rudbeckia, and orange and yellow cosmos and marigolds, as I keep my yellows, oranges and reds in a separate bed. Which, by the way, is now overgrown with reseeded feverfew. I started ripping that out too but then lost my ruthlessness, as it is still in full beautiful bloom. The nigella, at least, was in pod form now, which is still beautiful but it had to go.

I too have vases of feverfew and nigella pods everywhere lol. I'm not that ruthless that I can throw them on the compost heap just yet!

A small area of my reseeders, from last week when in bloom. Much more of them elsewhere. I left a few clumps so I can agonize NEXT season as well over whether to rip them out or not lol.

:)

Dee

Yeah, I have long thought we were sisters under the (somewhat slack) horticultural skin, Dee. We seem to be in lockstep on many occasions.

Rosa and Lat62, seems some of us have been locked into perpetual low pressure of cloudy, cool and wet, for nearly four months the same cut and paste weather pattern here, enough now!

Back from a week's walking to find 50% of the vegetables on the allotment demolished by snails. Half the courgettes and all the climbing french beans and peas are gone. Chilly and soaking while I was away.