Saturday, June 1, 2013

Sometimes Crazy Weather is a Good Thing

We've had a very strange Spring here.  It's been alternating between very chilly and very warm, with virtually no rain (at least until last week, when it rained two days in a row for a total, I would guess, of a little less than a centimetre).

This has, as you might imagine, wreaked havoc on the vegies. Poor things don't know if they're coming or going, and given that we're only three weeks from the start of summer I'm not holding out much hope for the cool weather crops like broccoli, cauliflower and spinach.

Having said that, this type of weather is apparently right up my mock orange's alley.  I have never seen it bloom so beautifully as it has been this past week.


I took this early this morning.  It's about a metre and a half tall, and smells absolutely divine once the sun hits it.

And because it's so pretty, I thought another photograph was called for. 



That's one of two wee baths I have for insects, and that's my dwarf culinary sage in the background, which the bees are currently swooning over.

I have been given one of the joys of gardening; something might be going pear-shaped in one spot, but there's bound to be something gorgeous somewhere else.  Too bad you can't eat mock orange!