There have been crazy thunderstorms over the past week . Again. My garden is lapping up every drop of water yet, it’s almost too much water at this point since when it rains now it’s not a soft and welcoming shower. It’s a deluge. We are expecting more of those storms today. And it’s still wet enough from the last storm that I can’t feed my roses since I use a liquid drench.

My woodland and shade beds in the back are a mess because I have to keep raking the mulch back. Why? Because for the first time, the rain storms come that are such an odd hard ferocity and pace that it looks like I have a stream running through part of the back of my woodland and shade beds.

Part of this is climate change, and the other part I believe is directly attributable to overdevelopment of the area in southeastern Pennsylvania where I live. Water seeks its own level and it comes downhill. It comes off the main roads, and so on and so forth. I am not the only gardener in my area suffering from this. It’s really terrible and very unfair. And frustrating.

In a sense we are kind of reaching the I’m tired of doing everything part of the summer. It’s hot, it’s humid, and the way the rain storms come make more work.

The flowers are still opening at a prolific pace, but oh my gosh, it’s a jungle out there. First we had drought, and now we have had all of this rain and things are trimmed weeks ago need trimming again!

Gardeners have to learn to be adaptable, but sometimes you just wish the seasons were a little more predictable.

It is the season of butterflies and hummingbirds, however and I just love watching both of them. The hummingbirds are really hard to capture on camera. but sometimes the butterflies cooperate!

One of my new old roses has finally started to bloom, and I take that as a good sign. Rose De Rescht. She’s very pretty.

I planted another old rose, but she’s struggling a bit because she had a very difficult trip across country. Her name is La Reine.

We have had more thunderstorms. And the garden is like a jungle. Sadly it might be like a jungle for a while because we have a lot of stuff going on at home. So if I don’t check in for a little while, my garden is still growing and we are fine. It’s just life and adulting are getting in the way.

Happy gardening!