I've been watering all month as we normally have the equivalency of over 20" of moisture by this time of year and we've had 1.59". Yes, less than 2 inches of moisture, well well WELL below what we should have. I am envious of everyone who's been flooded.. what the Rockys would do for that kind of moisture right now!
On Tuesday, I had to kill a little bit of time and I wanted to buy some new sprinkler heads for my hose so I went to Lowes. And they had plants already! Yay! Not many, too early. But I did pick up a couple of Charles Joly lilacs (
http://davesgarden.com/guides/...) that were $6/ea. They were in the 2 quart containers, but that's OK. And, since the weather was SOOOOOO glorious yesterday (upper 60s?), I put them in the ground, started to check out my roses in the front, and watered watered watered! Looks like I only lost (maybe) 3 roses in the front.. and those were so weak when I got them (they were shipped in the middle of summer.. paid for 3 day shipping, got them almost 2 weeks later! and they were so dried out.. got a refund) that I doubted that they were going to survive. So I have no Pink Flamingos now.
That's OK.. that's 3 holes that I can put some roses in when I start getting them next month!! Yay! Plus, on 1 of my roses that I got in (Harlequin) I already have new leaves on it (!!!) and there's leaf buds all OVER the place on a LOT of my roses! Yay!!!!!! Still have not seen any buzzards yet, but I have plenty of house finches singing up a storm (they over-winter in my neighborhood, along with robins), so I know it can't be THAT long now!
