Rain is the big news at my Little Cedar Garden. It rained the entire time I was in Denver for the Garden Bloggers' Fling. It rained when I returned home, and on Saturday night, Sunday morning and this morning. Hemerocallils 'Tuxedo Gent' (Pearce 2011) is really, really dark. As I went outside to grab these photos before church, the mosquitoes were thick. Eight landed on me, and I killed at least six of them. I'm fast. I hate those creatures. The cutting garden survived, and we weeded before more rain to hopefully keep the seeds from washing away again. I don't mean to complain, but I am tired of the rain. Hemerocallis 'Tomorrow is Another Day' (Reed 2012) According to the Oklahoma Mesonet, Guthrie, Oklahoma received 15.34 inches of rain in May. I saw on the local weather Oklahoma has had over 62 inches of rain so far this year....

This was the cutting garden in 2015 before we built raised beds It was a full-on zinnia garden that year. This photo is of my cutting garden in previous, happier summers. I'm telling myself it can again be this good if I try, try again. This will be the third planting of sunflowers, cosmos, and zinnias in the cutting garden, and I'm hoping the third time's a charm. The big washout I try not to whine, but the cutting garden has been washed away twice. Also, I accidentally left my original seeds from Floret Flowers and Johnny's Selected Seeds in my tool bucket which proceeded to get rained upon. Cutworm damage has also been rampant. There must be a lot of very hungry caterpillars around here. The seed packets were a mucky, stinky mess which of course, the seeds loved, and they germinated with abandon. What to do? I just...

Tomatoes I'm trying this summer. A list!

Our dock in the high water of our pond after the rains. We're supposed to get more rain tonight. I hope that doesn't happen. Two days before Monday, Oklahomans were warned it was going to be a bad day, a "high risk" weather day. That afternoon, I was recording this week's Gardenangelists podcast on clematis, aggressive vs. invasive plants and vegetable gardening with Carol Michel of May Dreams Garden and had turned my phone to do not disturb. Suddenly, my Apple Watch tapped me with a message. It was my son overriding my do not disturb with a text about a tornado warning in Logan County. I left off Skyping with Carol and turned on the weather coverage. Fortunately, the storms were forming along a dry line north of me outside of Mulhall and later Perry. That meant those tornadoes wouldn't hit here. How did I know? I live in...