Ewwwww! Rose slug! Sorry this is kind of fuzzy--it was the best I could get the camera to do. Anyway, I was deadheading the rose in the driveway bed, and decided to look under a leaf, and voila! So now I have to get some more rose spray and I guess sit down by every rose I have and turn each branch up and spray the undersides. Also the ground--apparently they drop off and pupate in the ground, then climb up and start all over again. I'd like to find a non-toxic remedy if I can--time to do research!
Since this morning's pictures didn't turn out so well, I took some more when we were out after dinner. This is one of the cream-colored Asiatic lilies against the original light-green paint sample.
And here's one against two darker samples. I'm leaning toward the one on the right. It provides a nice background for both the flowers and the foliage, I think.
After whining and complaining about the sweet peas since early March, they're finally starting to bloom (just as the weather gets hot and humid, which sweet peas don't like, but never mind). Not too many right now--just some white ones, plus this light pinky-lavender one
and these dark sort of burgundy/purple ones. They're pretty, and they smell pretty. They don't fill the air the way the lilacs and hyacinths did, but they're nice to the nose.
I'm looking forward to more flowers. The nice thing about sweet peas is that no matter what colors you have, they all look good together. 
After whining and complaining about the sweet peas since early March, they're finally starting to bloom (just as the weather gets hot and humid, which sweet peas don't like, but never mind). Not too many right now--just some white ones, plus this light pinky-lavender one
and these dark sort of burgundy/purple ones. They're pretty, and they smell pretty. They don't fill the air the way the lilacs and hyacinths did, but they're nice to the nose.
I'm looking forward to more flowers. The nice thing about sweet peas is that no matter what colors you have, they all look good together.I'm happy with the driveway bed this year--it's nicely filled, with a nice mix of plants, and most of the dirt is covered, esp. once the sweet peas got going. Next year I'd like to get more things that drip over the edges, calibrachoa and dichondra and so forth, but I should make sure to also grow things that go up, like the sweet pea vines. We may not have another long cool spring next year, so maybe I should consider mixed morning glories.
I just thought this was pretty. Next week there'll be yellow Hyperion daylilies blooming, as well.
4 comments:
Beautiful flowers! Bless them for brightening up a humid and rainy June . . . I think those lilies look great against the dark paint swatch. But when can one paint if it rains or is 99 degrees every day.
And maybe you need some chickens for those rose slugs.
Amen. Not moi. It's all I can do to deadhead and water. Ironic that after all the rain we've had, things need watering. The sweet peas just melted yesterday.
Chickens? Well--maybe in my next incarnation, when I have a little place in the country. ;-)
At least you have sweet peas which is more than we can say (but we have LOTS of road lilies).
Wasn't that rain last night a Godsend?
I don't think we got as much rain as people north of us did--it did absolutely pour down rain, but only for about 15 or 20 minutes, and that was that. We didn't even get much wind, and I hear that just a few miles away trees and power lines came down and they measured gusts of 60 mph! Glad to hear you got good rain!
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