Ho boy. Plants. Let's see...
The roses are doing well-- I cut them back aggressively in March and they are HUGE and in full bloom already. There was some mildew concern for a while because it was really rainy, but since the hot weather started, they look much better.
The rhododendron bloomed late, and is finally starting to fade.
The rosemary just finished blooming and seems fine.
The chives are in full bloom, and the bees love those puffy purple blossoms.
The sage is doing its sage thing. It's fine.
The basil is doing its basil thing. It's also fine.
THE STRAWBERRIES. OH MY GOD. We harvested so many strawberries out of our four little boxes of strawberry plants yesterday!!
The carrots are disappointing this year. Not many of the seeds sprouted.
The sugar pea plant is doing well now that it has something to climb on, and is starting to produce pods!
The nasturtiums are off to a slow start, but they're getting there.
The pepper plants are a mixed bag. The poblano plant is doing great! Leafing out, looks like it might be thinking about flowering soonish. The cayenne plant is hanging in there, but it's not getting as big as the poblano plant. And the serrano we're growing from seed has just been thinned down to the strongest sprout and it's doing its best.
The succulents are a mixed bag. Some of them are doing great, others look a little wilty.
The foxglove is going bonkers-- it's put out 13 flower spikes! Two of them are currently flowering, and the rest are in various stages of almost flowering.
The garlic is in a race to see which one can get the tallest. Right hand corner seems to be winning.
The potatoes seem to be doing okay-- the leaves aren't wilty, at least. It's hard to tell otherwise.
The Snapdragon of Determination, which planted itself in a pot on my balcony back when I lived in an apartment 5 years ago, is still going, although it looks a little stringy this year, and the flowers have shifted from being yellow to being pink.
The peach sapling is doing fine.
The thing we thought was another peach sapling but we're now thinking might be some kind of willow is also doing fine.
One of our mystery plants is doing well, and the other I'm not sure about-- it looks a little powdery.
The crocosmia and the torch lily are coming back, but they seem a little stunted; it might be time to re-pot them, or even just plant them in the ground.
The lawn is a brown disaster in two sun-baked areas, and an overgrown jungle in other places. I don't care. I hate lawns.