Gardening in the Morning.....

It is hot out here in Utah....If you want to garden you need to get up at 7 am and garden in the shade and coolness. Once 10 am hits you don't want to be outside.  I like to watch and see what plants will survive and thrive in this heat because those are the plants that I will try to grow more of next year.  This blanket flower is loving it...It doesn't wilt in the 5pm sun.

This was one of my favorite plants in New Jersey too.  I love watching the stages of plants, and what the flowers look like before they bloom.  This photo shows the beginning flower and the blooming flowers...

My Carnation and Dianthus plants are also thriving in the heat.  They don't ever look to be bothered.  I will definitely be planting more of these next year.  I'm thinking for trying to start them from seed too.

What will this flower be??? I'm reading a book called "Dandelion Wine"  By Ray Bradbury, it's from my sons AP English reading list...Here is a great quote I found..."Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher.  Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the Peonies, Socrates Force-growing his own hemlock.  A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.  As Samuel Spaulding, Esquire, once said, 'Dig in the earth, delve in the soul'....."

I love going out to the garden and thinking, and listening to hear if God will reply....To sort out my week and let things go as I weed, and trim and prune things...

I admire my hard work, and look at the small patch of beauty that I helped to create...Time seems to slip by slowly....I enjoy watching the bugs that live in the garden....Do they think kindly of me for providing this space for them to wander about...

The beginning stages of the Cone Flower....Cone Flowers and Daisies seem to be fine in the 100 plus weather we are having.  The nice thing is they come back every year too. They are the tall plants in the back of my garden.

I was so happy yesterday to see this flower.  This is one of my Black Eyed Susan vine plants that I started in the house as seeds.  That it survived the move from the house to the garden and is now flowering made me so happy!  Some of my little seedlings did not live.

This is the Ice plant that takes up a huge amount of my garden by the sidewalk....It is slowly creeping out of the garden and into the lawn...It loves the heat......

A view of the garden from the sidewalk by the house...Still have forks in there as the cat seems to still want to wander into my garden....My Mum plants are getting big, I'm glad fall is still far away...  I'm also glad that this year I'm taking more time to enjoy my garden.  One interesting thing I have realized is that last year on June 21st I spent the morning in the garden and took photo's and blogged about it....It must be that June is when it gets hot out here and I begin to garden only in the early morning.  I'll have to go look at the photo's from last year and see how things have changed....
Have a great day.
G.G.