It's Getting Warmer

 Today we're skipping the wordless portion of Wednesday and getting straight to the wordy. Plants are finally starting to put on their inches in the Roots & Shoots Garden. It must be this snap of hot weather. The temperatures have finally hit what I'd call - consistently warm. I've made a few new discoveries during my morning garden walks. 

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 Aquilegia 'Clementine Red' - planted this spring (from Bluestone Perennials) has a few little blooms. And I mean little. They are about the size of a quarter... all hidden under the foliage. I would have never noticed them if I wasn't poking around to make sure I'd snipped all the leaf miner damage a few days before. *Leaf miners aren't fatal to the plant, though they are an eyesore... annd I'm kinda' anal when it comes to things that look dead and/or diseased. My snipped plant is none the wiser. It hasn't skipped a beat.

And my allium. I promised my Twitter buddies that my "Hairy Allium" wasn't a disease... Here's the proof. One of my favorite plants; I want more.

 

 Baby radish upheaval in the potager garden. I notice that several of my radishes were basically popping out of the soil. I couldn't help myself. I plucked them, called to Mr. Workerman for the photo op...

washed them, and then ate them for my "outdoor snack." *These types of snacks are, of course, eaten outdoors. On the move. Garden foraging. I then proceeded to throw the tops into our front lawn. I'm sure my neighbor appreciates looking at that. Ahh well... the best part of the radish story is: after I exclaimed to Workerman how delicious they were (offering him a bite) he says "What do radishes taste like?"

Oh me.