IT WAS A GLORIOUS DAY UNTIL...

Luckily there was no lasting damage.  A few pics from before the storm.  Royal Purple Bush beans:

 

I'm ridiculously happy to see dahlias blooming and bees in the garden again:

 

This is pretty close to what I was expecting the patio garden to look like, but not so much with the grass this early:

 

Not sure what happened here.  It's been sitting on the potting table for months without incident.  Could an animal have attacked?  I cleaned it up and put it into a large Ziploc bag:

 

And after the rain I'm even less pleased with the grass flopping all over the place.  I may very well go out and cut it all back tomorrow:

 

I really have a lot of planting to do tomorrow since my mental stop date is the 4th of July.  I'll be up and out there early, I just hope it doesn't rain.

Comments

[Katie]

I love hail. But then the gardener in me screams out in pain!

[jonquil]

all we got was a few rumblings of distant thunder. meriden got a decent storm.

[Heather's Garden]

Katie -- I feel exactly the same way. It's something about the power of nature.

Jonquil -- Where are you located? I saw Meriden covered by red on the radar.

[eliz]

I have that daylily but don't know what it is. Do you? Congrats on your dahlia; none of the ones I planted from tubers are blooming yet.

[Heather's Garden]

Elizabeth -- I don't know either, it was a passalong from a friend of a friend's Nantucket garden, so it's a classy daylily! I have Hootenanny and Ebony Star blooming today. I just hope they last the whole season for me.

[christine l.]

i love gardening so i can relate to what your saying about the gardener inside of me is screaming, espescially even after that rain i have to wait cause the ground is too wet. GRRRR.. i can stay out there for hours and hours until im so exhausted cause i love to fill that yard with flowers. i love the sight of plants growing all over the place