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.
I love hail. But then the gardener in me screams out in pain!
Posted by: Katie | July 04, 2009 at 01:26 AM
all we got was a few rumblings of distant thunder. meriden got a decent storm.
Posted by: jonquil | July 04, 2009 at 08:33 AM
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.
Posted by: Heather's Garden | July 04, 2009 at 11:35 AM
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.
Posted by: eliz | July 04, 2009 at 01:17 PM
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.
Posted by: Heather's Garden | July 04, 2009 at 05:14 PM
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
Posted by: christine l. | May 28, 2010 at 12:22 AM