2025 - What I did today

I've had a blazing hot day here today, and it got even muggier when it clouded over for an hour or so. I thought I would pass out!

I decided that what had to take top priority today was to dig the flower bed on the left of the porch, as the flowers that I bought last week were suffering in the buckets where I had temporarily planted them.

It was the Dense blazing star and the geranium that looks very much like 'Johnson's Blue' that suffered the most. I want the bed to be as deep as the porch, and up to the corner of the house. It has grass at the moment, in places very patchy, along with a rhubarb, mock orange and a massive hosta.

I tried to get the hosta moved, but there's absolutely no way I could shift that at the moment - that will have to wait until it has died down in the autumn. I've dug over about a third, and pulled out all the grass roots that I could find. The soil is very dry near the house, and very sandy all over. It will need a lot of organic material, I think. I planted up the suffering plants and had to call it a day. It's just too warm, and I was getting very dehydrated despite constantly drinking water.

My other flowers will have to wait nicely in their pots for their turn.