Gardening, anyone?

Jazzy, do potted plants dry out quickly in NM?

The black squirrel and crow sharing diced papaya from the cleaned out love bird cage and sun conure cage!!

So I got my garden into the dust. Super dry. Coyote dug up my beets. Had a rain storm last night. Pounding  storm with golf ball size hail. But the hail was like a slushie, just left a big slushie when it hit the ground. Some plants are broken, lots flattened. Plants are very stunted this year due to being so dry. Lady slippers are blooming, will post pic later. They are really small this yr. U guys gardens are so ahead of mine. Our season is so short. Luv the pics. Keep them coming.

Sorry about the hail, 70charger. It can do a number on plants.

I am happy to report I have three sunflowers in containers and so far , not eaten. I wish I could say the same for my petunias. The bunny seems to like them ! I'm very close to having my front and side yards planted, weeded, and mulched and hopefully the maintenance will be low enough that I can start tacking the backyard beds.

I found the biggest slug in my garden today and is in

slug heaven. 

Good luck quiltlirarian  I planted pots on my porch alot

this year.

Quiltlibrarian- best of luck, thinking of you. Not the kind of news we want, but if you have to do it the sooner the better, I think.

gorgeous color!

Quilt- do keep us posted. We will be in your pocket when you go in and when you come out.

Teka, my lemon lilies are blooming also. I was so happy to read your post. My mother "acquired" these lemon lilies, probably 60 years ago. I've never run into anyone else who has them, or knows they are fragrant.

Your blue and white iris are absolutely lovely and I immediately began visualizing them next to my purple Siberian iris!

Poor fawn. So happy he's OK. Perhaps they'll consider your garden bad karma and stay away from your veggies?

Teka- love your gardens. I never knew chives bloomed with purple flowers until recently. Do you use the fresh chives in salads, etc?

Also loved the story about your DH helping the young fawn. Good karma!

Teka- oh yum! My mom used to make that, but never had it with fresh chives.

Teka- Beautiful. work and pictures. How you must treasure your lemon lilies.

I am super jealous

Twohobbies- I have two of these sort of shrubby perennials called a guara and they really like the sunshine. This pink one was planted last summer and got really big (like 3-4 feet tall) and got another purple one for the back yard this spring and it is doing great too. If you want something more shrubby, this one will do great!

I will think about some other things good for a sunny spot!

For summer bloom, I'm a big fan of daylilies--all colors, with a range of blooming times. They make a great cut flower too, as long as you do not bring them from sunlight into a less-dark room (they'd just close up). I also love beebalm. It's tall, red, purple, or pink (maybe white as well?). It is in the mint family so it's kind of an aggressive spreader. I has a lovely minty fragrance, and a is a very big favorite with hummingbirds. Coneflowers, shasta daisies, and blackeyed Susans are reliable, and I'm also with Flaviarose on the subject of phlox. I have a hybrid purple loosestrife that I love. The "regular" plant is an invasive nightmare, but this hybrid has behaved very nicely in my garden for ten or fifteen years.

Two how about daylilies. I have stella d'or they are great. They stay small compared to the large one. Fine leafed. They bloom till hard frost.

 Picked some baby lettuce and some radishes today. Yumm