Are you tired of the heat yet??

veggies-watered LOL

corn knocked every which way..........

poor corn

the rainbowz!!!

This message was edited Jul 23, 2008 6:25 PM

after the storm cleared my dh took this shot-i think he did good!

those last 2 are gorgeous!!

Sorry you got so much-you could've shared some with me:) I would've happily shared with you:)

Oh Dorie so sorry for the mess but so glade you are ok we got a lot of rain but not the wind may be you can fix some of the corn when it drys up a bit so you don't sink in the mud to deep lol ( remembering Iris bed) best of luck ;0)
Gloria

Wow! We got the soaking on sat and last wed. But nothing since. You really got a mess huh? hope the new bed will be okay. Its been so pretty here. only in the high seventies or low eightys. Very low humidity. Just some great sunshine.. Loving it. Overnight its been in the mid 50's. Great for sleeping. Same their for you all?

Yikes...do you live in Texas? What a mess. Hope things dry out and prosper!

Good morning to everyone. Another nice sleeping evening. 54 degrees when I woke up and 6 a.m. Highs in the low eighties and almost no humidity... Have friday off and am going to finish my border around my from garden. It will look nice I'm sure. Should go take a picture of before and after. Okay here the "new" border. It will lok great I think filled with the golden tiara hoastas and maybe a few hercheras in there also for some contrast. We'll see, Ronna

No honey-she lives here in Mi-Plainwell...some of Mi got bad storms over the last few days....

Ronna-that will look good, maybe some dark colored heuchera like Midnight rose for contrast:)

Great idea. I have several things I want to seperate. The perannnial budget is kinda gone. So Im going to reuse some I have here. But a really dark one would be great. I also have lots of Purple Palace. Cora Bells? I believe they are and thought about maybe every other one? Maybe some of the bressingham coral bells in the front. dont want to overfill the border but want it to look good. It really needs a border don't you think??? Cant wait to get started on it. Wish I didnt have to work today. Oh well. I will be good and feed the people at the hospital!!! Have a great day, ronna

Ronna, I think hostas and hercheras will look great there! If we lived closer I'd come and help you. : )

Mary Ellen

You have a good eye putting together your garden :) Oh, and I love your little bunnies too!

Since bunnies eat all my stuff, I sadly dispise them...I think your palace purple heuchera will look great there too:) I just thought with the lighter shades in the grand tiara, that the dark would really bring it out and vice versa-the colors in the hosta will bring out the dark in the heuchera:)

Very true. Thanks everyone so feed back is alway good. My husband just likes the yard he doesn't care one way or the other. I know we have a bunny hanging around here also. I've never seen one in the yard before but now we have one. It can go away now. It nibbled on some of my babies. He has eat to right??? Thanks for the offer of the help Mary Ellen. Very sweet of you. Ronna

"Are you tired of the heat yet??"

Heeeck NO!
I'll take all the heat & humidty I can get
cuz all too soon winter will be here.

Not tired of the heat at all. However, I am tired of all the weeds this year.

I am SO tired of those darn japanese beetles

really?? I have killed less than 10 this year:) I have heard that is you got a lot of water and treated your lawn as you should, that is why a lot of us don't have that many...sorry-I din't mean to send them all to you./...

Didn't treat my lawn...2 acres would be too much!! They are not as bad as last year...but still way too many for my liking!

not many beatles here but they say this weekend is going to be HOT i cant wait!!!
the pool is staying at 84 so far!! i luv it and the weeds well im not looking till next spring! lol

The weather has been just dandy! Really not to hot at all. But its changing to muggy today. Yuck. On vaca this week so I'll probably be working out in it. The yard I mean. I havent seen to many Japanese beatles around here at all. Sorry for the problem with those.

I have seen a few of the beetles here. Yesterday I saw my first praying mantis. I wish I had more of those in the garden.

Thet are the good bug aren't they? Really cool looking thats for sure.

it was a great pool day today!!

I'm jealous. Here I am pulling crown vetch from my daylily bed and hating every minute of it. That's what I get for deserting my gardens for a month in the summer. Had a good time, though and now I have to pay the piper! LOL

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Well today we went to Fredrick Meijer Gardens.... How beautiful that place is!!! My couldnt look fast enough!!! LOL. All kinds of landscapes. Every plant imagenable. It was very hot though. But we made to most of it. Enjoyed very much. This photo is from the Michigan Family Farm segment....

That is one of my favorite places to visit. We went last year and road the tram where they talk to you - I really enjoyed that!

where is it??

Grand Rapids

AHHHH-thanks:)

Its very easy to find....The address is 1000 E Beltline in Grand Rapids. Nice. Nice. Nice. There alre all differnt parts of it. Woodland shade, Victorian, Tropical... Endless. Sculptures all over also. Alot of the sculptures we didn't quit "get". But thats up to the artist I guess!!! LOL. We aren't really artsy fartsy!!! If you get the chance you should go.... 12.00 admissions. Ronna

I grew up bu GR, but now I live like 3.5 hrs away....I will have to go sometime-like a feildtrip!!

I've been ther a few times while visiting my SIL. It was wonderful. The first time was right after tthey first opened and there weren't very many people there yet, so we got a guided tour for free.

Boy oh boy did we ever get a storm last night!!!! I was just getting home from a daylily meeting in the Detroit area around 11:30 pm and someone pulled the cork out of the clouds. Rain and hail. I ran from my car to the back door through 3 inches of water on my patio. Even with an umbrella I got soaked. We got close to 2 inches of rain in less than an hour. We needed it, but it could have waited until I got into the house, LOL.

Where is Bad Axe??

its over in the thumb!!!
we got a few storms yesterday too but this time we only got a half inch of rain!

i want the HEAT back!!!!!!!!!

Storm missed us and we could have used some rain. Detroit got it and I am just l2 miles south and missed it.