This year, the Weather Gods are smiling at our plants but not at GreenThumb events. This weekend was “Open Garden Day”, two days of fun events at all community gardens in the city. And it rained – again. Saturday was completely wet, Sunday was surprisingly cold and misty with just a few dry stretches.
LaGuardia Corner Garden had prepared a little bug-themed crafts workshop. We wanted to make origami butterflies with our visitors. But paper and rain do not go together very well. As Johannes observed correctly: this was no weather for butterflies. We had to have to save this activity for a different day.
The plants, however, liked the rain. Tomatoes, basil and marigolds would prefer it a little warmer, but summer heat will come soon enough. At the moment, Clematis are the stars.
And let us not forget the bell-flowers, the campanulas. We are so lucky to have all of this beauty at out fingertips.
