SUMMER STOCK SUNDAY

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Since the heat wave 10 days ago, summer has disappeared after a heavy thunderstorm. It became cool and grey. We had to take our cardigans out again and the ombrellas too. Of course I catched a cold and had to stay home.

Yesterday I felt better and summer showed its nose again. Not very much but still to allow to put our jungle (garden) in order.



There were these terrible dandelions growing everywhere. Last year I had put a special product to kill them and had tried to pull them out, with the result that they still grow with pleasure and like my grass.



I mowed the lawn, this has become my job now, since Mr. G suffers arthritis. Fortunately the lawn has a handkerchief size and it's quickly done. The grass we have to put in special paper bags provided from the city against money of course.

Now it looked clean again, although quiet dry which is rather strange as it had rained the last week but apparently not enough.



The entrance I had cut by a professional gardener, because the bushes are so thick and high so that I can't do it. This year it grows like hell and it's already the second time I had to have it cut. Otherwise you can't get through to our entrance. Usually I have it done twice a year in spring and autumn.

The bell hangs at the door during summer because when I am sitting outside I don't hear the
door bell.



Rosie was my little helper, she loves the smell of freshly cut grass and I too !

FUN MONDAY - Gardening

Faye asked us to tell our gardening stories. And share some photos of your garden, or one we admire.

I think I don't have any gardening stories because I never had a green thumb. I don't like to work in our garden, to plant and unplant flowers, to mow the grass or cut the hedge. What I love is sitting in a beautiful garden with flowers and blooming bushes around me and a freshly cut lawn because it smells so good. I try to understand people who love working in a garden, know all flowers by their names and at what season they bloom.

But as we have a garden and I don't want to sit in a jungle either I tried to make it nice and easy. Mr. Gattino is of no help he hates garden work even more than me and mowing the grass is already too much. At the very beginning a gardener was seeding grass in the middle and put all kind of bushes around. In front of the house we put gravel.

Since last year a miracle happened and I suddenly started to like to work a little bit in our garden. Not too much of course.


I bought tree bark and had put it on a plastic so there would be no weeds and no more mowing at the side of the house.


at the end of the lawn I planted a rhododendron a months ago which just started to bloom. It's also the little corner where our animals are burried.


The entrance too I made very easy. Same system, tree bark on plastic



and flower pots with petunias



and of course a little cat. In a month there will be blooming more and fill the whole pot.





For the moment a lot of bushes are blooming and it looks wonderful. These are two houses in my neighborhood.