Yellow Rose with Just One Cane

All but one cane on this rose bush was lost to bacterial cane blight this year. But I'm happy to see this precious rose this morning.

Pink English Rose

I don't have many roses left, after bacterial rose cane blight hit my plants. But this pink English rose is still thriving.

Snow Peas in Bloom

It won't be long now and we'll be eating fresh snow peas.

The Directions Said: "Be Mean to this Plant"

I purchased this at Hilda Packard's spring plant sale. She said don't fertilize or water much, so I didn't. She was right. This hardy geranium is thriving on neglect.

Welcome to the Garden Little Green One

A tiny "celebrity" tomato is growing up in the garden. I hope we are eating a few tomatoes in about a month.

Ladybug Outbreak

Most folks are seeing more ladybug larvae, and ladybugs, than usual. It's likely connected to a plentiful food source: aphids. Because we had an abnormally dry spring, aphids were a problem much earlier than usual. Aphids are a ladybug favorite. This collage above shows ladybug larvae in various stages of morphing into beetles.

Honeybee on Sedum

This yellow-flowering sedum was popular with honeybees over the weekend. I use sedum as a "living mulch," in dry-ish areas of my landscape.