The Rain while in Spain

While we were away, it rained and rained and rained and there were tornado warnings and it was generally just icky. The upside of that is that my plants and fleurs are mucho happy! Our dogs? Notsomuch. They both hate thunderstorms, so it was a tenuous week for them, but they are both doing VERY well...In fact, our dog Sadie, who had the emergency surgery? Is back to 100% already. Totally and completely fine in every way.

Here's our little sweet pea!
What a mug!

She's getting her summer haircut today, so she'll be looking pretty funny when we get her this afternoon!

I picked another giant romaine lettuce on Sunday:

And the basil plant out back is getting ridiculously huge:

The hydrangeas are utterly GORGEOUS right now. They all have a bazillion blooms:


I don't know what the thing is about the yard back there, but one of the hydrangeas is the bluest of blue, the other three are more whitish-blue.

Then, I have this one on the side of the house by the driveway. The colors in these blooms are so rich and lovely:
I've had this hydrangea for probably 5 or 6 years now and this is the first year that it has given me more than 4 or 5 blooms, so I'm just thrilled!

And last, and hardly least, the leviathan butterfly bushes in the back. I'll call them Godzilla and Mongo. Here is Godzilla:Easily 15 feet now and filling out beautifully, the flowers are just now starting to bud.

Here's Godzilla's brother, Mongo on the other side of the yard:
Mongo is about 8 or 9 feet tall and easily as wide. I need to do some serious trimming as we now can no longer get through to the back gate! Mongo is going to eat one of of our dogs if we don't do something soon!

More planties and fleurs to come.

Have three jobs to do this week planting flowers, so I'm off to my beloved garden center...

Happy Tuesday!