Sorry, but for me it is just too hot and humid, we wait so long for summer to come and then when it does, I can’t cope! The house is lovely and cool, windows and doors open for any breeze and the curtains closed to shut the poor sunshine out. I have been gardening at 6am each morning in my pjs, thank goodness only the birds can see me! and then one more session after breakfast and by 9.30am I am whacked so that is it for the day. I can then sit down and watch the Olympics with a clear concience! I almost forgot to photograph my flowers yesterday, so busy watching TV and cheering on Team GB!
Lovely lily in a pot, It might be Stargazer, not sure as it was a present, but still surviving, think I must repot it for next year.
One of my Yucca filamentosas is now flowering, lovely flower spike which suddenly appears without any warning.
Crocosmia Solfaterre flowering up by the pergola and blue hydrangeas.
After a long time C. Solfaterre is spreading quite a bit, I will have to keep an eye on it.
This is the Hydrangea Blue Wave which is behind Solfaterre, they go well together.
how does Rosa Iceberg manage to look so cool, calm and sophisticated when it is so hot?!
Htdrangea Ayesha is now joining in with the other flowers with its lilac like flowers.
That is my six for this week, thanks to Jim for hosting, do pay him a visit if you would like to see what is happening in gardens around the world, or will you be glued to the Olympics like me, cheering on your team?! I might be in my 80s and not able to do sport any more but I was very sporty in my time, many years ago!
Haha, as a midwesterner, I think it can’t be too hot and humid or you would have everything closed up and the central air blasting away! This is how we survive 32 C with 90% humidity! Iceberg is a beautiful serene rose! My house came with some sort of yucca, but it has droopy leaves and is not where I would want it. Been trying to kill it for 8 years, but it just laughs and sends up another shoot. The root is enormous and resistant to whatever nastiness I can throw its way. Maybe I need to embrace it and not try so hard to kill it.
No air con Elizabeth as normally it is never needed, houses in the UK do not come with air con provided so we all know what to do to keep our houses cool for the few days that are far too hot! Yes, embrace your yucca, but not if its a spiky one!
I hope you get some relief from the heat soon, Pauline. It’s far from warm here, but I know how exhausting it can be when you’re used to lower temperatures. Your six photos are lovely, what a great surprise to have your Yukka flower. I love the Hydrangeas ‘Blue Wave’ and ‘Ayesha’. I’m sure Rosa ‘Iceberg’ is enjoying a toasting in the sun.
A lot cooler now, thank goodness Catherine, my feet and ankles are a lot better!Iceberg is enjoying the heat but still manages to look so cool !
A lovely selection – Hydrangea Blue Wave is particularly graceful. We’ve had the curtains closed here too in the front of the house during the day to try and keep the house cool. Far too warm – although there was more of a breeze today which was nice.
Weather is far cooler now Graeme, so I’m feeling a lot happier. The garden has coped with the heat better than I did, I don’t feel the need to garden at 6am any more!
Stargazer, if that is what it is, is a lovely lily, and it is always refreshing to see yellow crocosmia instead of red or orange! What sports did you used to do, Pauline?
I do like my Paul’s Best Yellow Crocosmia Cathy, but have plenty of the wild orange one which appeared in the garden from nowhere and gets pulled out regularly! Way back when I was at school I was captain of the hockey team and also played tennis for the school. Tennis carried on well into my 20s after I had my children. I took up horse riding in my 40s, did a lot of dressage and cross country, riding through the pine woods and sand dunes, jumping fallen tree trunks. This was when we lived in Southport, yes, poor Southport, for 10 years, where it is very flat and I also cycled everywhere. We then moved down here to Devon and the bike went in the back of the garage, far to hilly for me and all my exercise from then on was from creating the acre of garden here. Now I just enjoy watching it all on TV!
Thanks for filling me in, Pauline – I suppose we all come with a lot of history we don’t mention on our blogs, or rarely hint at… I met the Golfer through veteran/masters athletics and we both competed for a number of years, so we have been particularly interested in track and field events in the Olympics
Forgot to mention Judo Cathy, only went for one winter, just long enough to get my yellow belt!