My Red Mallows have been beautiful and plentiful this year. My folks always called these Mallows, though I know some folks call them Hibiscus. A close up so you can get a feel for the size.The Pink Mallows get even larger than the Red Ones. The Red tend to bloom first.These orange ruffled Lilly's lasted a bit longer this year; but are now all done.As are these purple Lilly's.The Cone Flowers were just getting started in this picture, but then got a bug problem, so did not flourish this year. The landscaper sprayed them and suggested we spray next May just before they come out. Apparently whatever the bug is falls to the ground until next season. The nest is the flower and eat partway through the stem, and flowers just sorta hang there...that's when the bug falls to the earth. This problem is said to be a problem for Cone Flowers and Sun Flowers. What a disappointment, they typically attract lots of bees and butterflies.I was having a really good start to the month of July with walking, mowing, yard work, planks, and side planks....then injured my right elbow using a heavy spud bar to dig up roots of Yucca plants. Yucca's are are really hard to remove, and typically take multiple years of digging to get all the root. It's been a month since the injury, and it's better; but not yet 100%....so I feel off the exercise routine.Planks dropped from 12 to 8, side planks dropped from 4 to 3, walks dropped from 9 to 7...plus I did yard work 4 times and mowed 3 times before the injury. I was about half way through the month when it happened.
I've not done any knitting, so no update on the blanket.
I've been out of the country for the last couple of weeks, touring The UK, so have gotten decent steps in thus far in August. I've begun to blog about the tour HERE.
