Summer

I don't usually bother to post long range shots, it's difficult to tell what the picture is supposed to be...

I'll make an exception for this veggie post...
Pictured above is cucumber vines, cherry tomatoes, variegated corn, and canna / tiger lilies.

Closeup of the cuke vines.

Close up of the variegated corn stalks.

Glass gem corn 

 Closeup of the cannas / tiger lilies

Colour echo... tiger lily / crocosmia... couldn't see the crocosmia in the canna shot...

 The crinums have been repeat blooming... courtesy of the June rain.

Echinacea... seems to be getting a break this year (so far), usually the voles kill a lot of it...

Check out the colour echo!

Cleome, echinacea, and double rose of sharon.

 Matelea collection

 

I'm having to grow these in pots... And let them climb bamboo teepee supports...

The mateleas that I tried planting against the garden fence aren't doing well... 

locally native plants should do well in the garden.... Try telling these vines.

American painted lady... fresh hatch.

Cabbage butterfly... pollinating the collard flowers... 

 

Buck moth... try this... IF YOU DARE!

Pretty!

Relief

About 2 inches of rain in the garden... A nice break from the dry spell.

Some happy pollinators...

Even the scarab beetle is busy pollinating...

Happy daylilies...

Can't say the same for the rat...

dry

The weather report on tv (last week) was all about how dry it's been... Macon got some of those afternoon showers... And they stopped telling us how dry it was...

Out here in the sand, nothing... still dry.

We Need Rain!

You probably notice the yard getting a little bit on the crunchy side. It is has been pretty dry across the area. In fact, it is one of the driest May’s since record keeping began! Athens is actually tied for first place for the driest May 1-16 period. We have only recorded a trace of rainfall during this time period! The year to break the record is back in 1913. If Athens does not receive any rainfall today, we will officially hold the record for driest May 1st-17th. With that said, let’s hope we get rain.

Above clipping borrowed from http://www.athensgaweather.com/

 I recon that my garlic is dry enuff to dig some for the kitchen...

Those non-flowering stalks produce single cloves...

The heliotrope doesn't mind it being dry...

 The bees are content.

Dry oak leaf hydrangea...

Dry rudbeckia... blooms anyway.

Dry daylilies...

 

 Peach, plum, and pear... seem to have caught something in that wet spring we had...

Ok... enough belly-aching... how bout some critter pics...

 Wasp making a meal out of cabbage white caterpillar.

 Butterfly visits collard flower....

Fence post lizard keeps an eye on the gardener.

Some freshly caged maters... 

The veggies are getting a bit of watering....

Visitor

 

I don't see the gopher tortoises very often... so when this one came to my back door, it seemed providential... and I went running for the camera.

The turtle seems to be interested in eating the soil... Minerals?

Kitty's interested too...

Real interested...

Video of the cats seemingly ignoring turtle... 

while the turtle is oblivious to the cats in turn.