Not much else going on but watering was done.

 Seems to be the pattern of the morning clouds clearing off by noon the comes back in around 4 or 5pm. Not many pictures for today nor from evening check yesterday so flowers first then garden.

The smaller flowered 'alpine rose' on my walk is also just bursting with flowers and actually has better fragrance than the larger flowered rose next to it. Need to email those photos off to the nursery to see if they can put a name to them.

This is such an odd rose color, I looked for very fragrant peach blend, pink blend but couldn't find anything that matched it. Another one that needs to be sent off to the rose experts.

Someone cut the other rose bud that was next to bloom on the bush, oh well there's about six of them left right now so lots to go around.

 

This was around 11:00 today so I suspect they're getting enough sun. When it gets to be full raging summer that will be a very full sun bed. 

Slowly going through the peas and harvesting what's ready. The onions at the front will likely be ready in a few weeks followed by a few more weeks with the younger ones. I plucked another few flower buds off the tomato plants on the right side. The tomato at the trellis has huge leaves which likely is due to being shaded a bit. It surprises me that both tomatoes started forming flowers so early. It's like, 'oohhh no you don't.... you have another three feet to go before you need to start fruiting'. 

 

Layla has a lot of onions coming up still so I watered everything today. That dark patch in the north bed was from yesterday stirring it up to see if it needed water. I scuffed some dirt into the gopher holes then stamped my foot on it to leave a tread print. A reminder that I covered them with dirt and possible marker in case the gophers come back.

Hard to see but the bottom leaves of the lettuce are being chewed to bits. I don't see any snail trails so I'm suspecting it's cutworms still. I decided to pull the onions and realized even after watering as long as I thought was good, it didn't go down very far. Might water again this evening if it is still dry underneath.

 Good size onions and used one with supper today. Will hope to use them tomorrow as well. I want to know how the growers get the root end so clean. I trimmed the roots and scrubbed them best I could at the sink. But there was still a dark patch at the center where the old roots had been.

There is a tiny little miniature rose in the corner I never  noticed before. Yes there's a lot of frog statues from someone who collects them. They are ancient obviously but that rose is relatively new or it only now decided it could flower. Yay for more roses though!

The irises are all mostly done, the Watsonia is slowly going through the flower stems and all the Indian Hawthorns are now done with brown chaff where the flowers were. Traditionally roses are the flower for June, because the original person/people who decided that likely lived in England or somewhere like that. In our area, May and possibly into June is for most of the roses and by July they're all done. Now coastally because of the marine layer and milder temperatures that is shifted a bit. Inland and deserts, we get warmer sooner and even generally the southwest has rose bloom peak sooner than other parts of the state and country.

Gardening is all about the cycles of flowering, fruiting, harvest and resting. Anyone who goes by what one person says to do at a certain time of year needs to make sure that it's for their area..and in some cases their micro-climate. I'm incredibly lucky and thankful for what gardening I can do because I have no idea what I would be doing otherwise.

Garden on!