Dry weather, been watering heavily for 2 days. Had 5 yards of dirt delivered this am by Ex Mayor Beebe himself. That's a lot of dirt and I have a lot of work ahead. Need it along west side of house where the landscape rocks weight sunk in the dirt and want to raisr the slope away from the house. Also want to add fresh topsoil to all the gardens. It's a beautiful, sunny, cool day and the flowers are doing well. In the front the spikes of blue salvia, white gas plant, pink verbascum, creamy white foxgloves look nice along with clove pinks, silver carpet of Stella artmesia, drifts of chartruse creeper. Last of the white peonies blooming along with Doreen. Blue nepheta and yellow yarrow, daisy and ywllow hollyhock in bud. Chartruse bush by hydranga makes a nice focal point. I'm working at Summerfest tonight. Randy coming to join me.
Jim, Lily and I went on a road trip to Mankato. Beautiful day for a drive. Stopped at Chaska Herb farm and Brewery Creek on the way down. As we got nearer to Mankato we could see all the damage from the heavy rainfall. Mudslides, ditches filled with water, ponds and lakes full, cropland saturated or standing in water. Lots of lost crops and damage. Mankato got hit with heavy rainful last week. For a spring that started out dry it turned very wet in May making up for water deficits and causing problems for some areas. In our neck of the woods it's been nice catching up on rain and not needing to water. Have to mow the grass frequently. Gardens are lush and blooms huge, trees and bushes big and full. Even the weeks along the roadsides are green and healthy. My neighbor to the west is growing healty danylions and other weeds which will be coming my way. So far has only mowed once so lots of weed seeds coming.
Here's some nice pictures my mom took around the yard on Thursday evening. The weather was perfect and everything is very green due to all the rain we've had recently.