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June in Your Garden!

Oh, good--mine is certainly on the wild side---but at least partly by design!

June in Your Garden!

My bad, Winter--it's a lovely tree. My arbutus has cinnamon bark that peels  off in summer to reveal lovely pistachio green underneath. I need to sweep up the dry leaves daily--sheds all summer. The bark is full of tannin, and can turn my collected rainwater the colour of coffe if I don't keep the gutters clear. Still love them, though.

Fork Handles

Good news about the hog--and at least your neighbour is making an effort. Too bad about the picnic--but at least you had a lovely restaurant meal!

I have been out staking as well--a mixed bag of weather here, and still quite breezy. Lots of detritus falling from trees onto the deck--the first of the summer long arbutus leaf fall. They need daily sweeping, as they are very slippery underfoot.

June in Your Garden!

What a lovely tree that is,@figrat--the peeling bark reminds me of our native arbutus, but a different colour. What is it?

June in Your Garden!

Rob, what a shame about that lovely elecric blue delphinium. Hope you get a second flush from it.And @figrat, I agree that is a stunning photo through the window.

Yesterday, I worked on my refurbished rockery--planted some Mondo grass, a passion vine, and some ground covers. Dug a huge amount of grass from the deer proof shady garden and planted some sweet woodruff. It can spread there to its hearts content.

Raining here today, and everything smells wonderful.

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Apparently, the caterpillars taste yukky, as the birds won't eat them. Shame, as I feed the birds at great expense--they tap on my kitchen window when the feeder is empty. Deadbeats.

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Sorry, ended up posting those pics twice, as this post disappeared, then reappeared. So they are in June's garden as well.

June in Your Garden!

It's official-we are now on record as having the coldest June so far, and it's another gray day.Nevertheless, I took some photos---

Splash of colour from the Orientals

Love this colour--gift from a neighbour-first bloom

The enemy--tent caterpillar on Lamb's Ears-but not for long

Moved this last year, as it was growing in the path--don't know where it came from, but I love it!

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Can't find the June in Your Garden thread---another gray day here. Read in the paper that June has broken records for being cold here. Here are some pics---

The enemy!

June in Your Garden!

I bless whoever invented the electric strimmer--that's all the mowing I do. Come summer, the lawn area grows brown, which is the colour it should be then. In the meantime, I just try to keep ahead of the weeds going to seed. Thank goodness for ground cover. Today I planted out some wintergreen I had in a pot-good winter berry  colour in shade and hopefully the deer will leave it alone.

Black currants