It's been so hot and humid this summer that I've neglected the garden. The once pristine (well maybe pristine is pushing it a little 😉) flower beds now resemble a jungle of weeds and grass. This nice little area, for instance looked fairly tame in May.
But now it looks like this:
The iris and shasta daisy bed looked even worse, so I decided to tackle that first and managed to get an hour or two of work in yesterday and this morning before the heat and humidity drove me back inside.
I pulled a lot of weeds- some were over knee high. I filled one trash can and had to start on another.
Mr. G filled up a wheelbarrow with mulch for me so I wouldn't have to haul heavy bags of mulch around and it didn't take very long at all to use most of it up.
There's still a lot of work to do and it's frustrating to not be able to work for very long at a time in the heat and humidity, but it feels good to have made a start. And I think the butterflies agree. There were several fritillaries flitting in the zinnias this morning, and this lovely swallowtail who kept me company for a while.
