Only by a few degrees warmer

 It's hot today, somehow worse than yesterday but only by a few degrees, but cooler than expected, 89 instead of 91. Still too hot for my liking and due to a doctor appointment in the morning got out to the garden at noon. I did water and covered the lettuce in the potato bed.

9:12 am

Noon

Slight difference in position but you get the idea, hazy morning but  mostly clear to blazing sun at noon. When I grew the zucchini I was out there in the morning but not the afternoon and thought the south bed got sun all day. Now I know why it had mildew on it since it gets half day shade only about four hours of full sun. Considering the wall shade was just creeping into the bed by 9 it was getting some good sun since about 8 or so. 

I shaded the tomatoes purposely for taking the picture so the color was better. You can see also the south bed wall shade at noon still covers the bed, likely in another month it will still be blazing sun with little shade and the peas will be suffering. 

I mentioned the little Camellia sprout that needs to be dealt with and obviously the gardeners are not in a rush to do so.

It would take a bit of work with a shovel to dig it out of there and would need to cut the root it's attached to in order to transplant it. This is technically the wrong time of year to do this, Camellias are physically dormant in winter so it could potentially kill it to transplant this time of year..or.... it's a good time of year because it's in a growth stage. Hands are twitching to dig it up and nurture it.

 I have pictures of a fern tree that I did this at the nursery. It was growing out of the drainage hole in the side of a 5 gallon camellia so I almost unpotted the camellia to get it out, success on both parts and planted the fern. Well it grew more than I expected!

This is after three years of growing from a sprout about six inches tall. I don't know if it's still there or they decided to cut it down. Another plant that I save and it grew is a Camellia in a straight line back from this bed across the table. Talk about small garden spaces.

I don't think the Camellia grew much more than that since it's competing with the palm tree. I do know the other plants are no longer there. That was my 'misfit' bed with the one legged flamingo and a stone rabbit missing an ear. That is also the best that hydrangea looked in it's life there. Just before I left it had only put out three or four flower heads that spring/summer (I left the nursery in October). Rarely fed it and pruned it sparingly.  My understanding about those beds and the other one is they may have wanted a more 'professional' appearance as now they are completely different other than the main plant that is there.That Camellia was also a pink and the name escapes me now, the long leaves in front are a belladonna lily clump, there's alpine strawberry, a statice that wasn't doing well due to being shaded, and a few other things. Hodge podge 'misfit' garden.

Not my place anymore and someday hope to recreate them in another garden.  Luckily still have these photos and many more to reference.