June Garden Peeping Let's Take a Walk

Happy Friday, everyone! Did you see that gorgeous full moon? It brought the horseshoe crabs up on the beach to lay their eggs.

 

. Now today on the last Friday of this 2021 June, let's take a look at gardens around the neighborhood. Unfortunately, due to major roadwork to correct the constant flooding I have mentioned over the years, some of our usual haunts are inaccessible right now. Instead Mo and I are heading in a different direction, though I hope to go alone  to get some pics of our fave beach alley an grey fences at some point.

Summer near the ocean is all about hydrangeas. The cool temps and occasional drizzle seem to have produced some glorious blooms this summer.

A quiet shady public area with a nice bench. Mo and I sit for a while some afternoons.

Then we have the daylilies, just beginning. They should peak by the Fourth of July.

Pretty mixed with the blue bells of the hostas that are allowed to bloom here.

Foamy blooms on euonymus:

People enjoy gardening. I find pretty plantings in the tiniest corners sometimes.

                                                

Beach roses everywhere, on the dunes and in gardens too.

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A few weeks ago I visited my former neighbors, to see my friend's beautiful yard and garden. Very reminiscent of Cape Cod. And that grass! This shed was once an outdoor beach shower.

A driftwood whale and wildflowers, rose campion.

A newly constructed veggie bed.

Pretty pots on the deck, a nod to their love of tropicals.

Hibiscus grown from seed, year two.

These borders will be filled with hydrangeas and beach roses in a week or two.

This is their herb garden, made from a beachcombed find, painted their distinctive robins egg blue.

When I stopped by this past weekend, there was fresh baguette and goat cheese flavored with their home grown herbs. Delish.

Back home Mo is waiting for his daily spoonful of ice cream!

But later he is sent to his bed indoors, naughty barking at helicopters as they fly by on Friday evening, headed to the Hamptons, we surmise. Must be nice! No train, no jitney, no Long Island Expressway traffic. Just a 40 minute cruise over the shoreline. How cool is that! [Mo doesn't look at all sorry, does he?]

Have a great weekend!

love

lizzy

gone to the beach....

beautiful light, golden, and a rainbow after a storm earlier in the month.