I prefer my air conditioned house these days. I tour the garden for about an hour just to admire my beauties and munch some peas, pull a few weeds. But great isn't a word I'd use for this weather. Moldy, maybe. But I love your attitude!

Gotta agree with Susan...I admire your attitude but I intensely dislike this heat and humidity. All my flowers are popping and wilting and my peonies only lasted 4 days! But it does look nice in this hazy light. And I do love thunderstorms.

I'd love to have the option of air conditioning, but for now my old house will have to settle for ceiling fans!

We've been going out in the evenings lately to work in the garden, with the wee one playing in her pool (and sneaking up to splash us!). I'm trying to get everything mulched so it won't dry out so fast. My tomatoes and zucchini are loving this weather, and I can't wait to start seeing flowers on them.

I agree about the water, sweating, and eliminating toxins. You visit the bathroom a lot more, but boy does your skin start to look better! In weather like this, I like to add some orange juice to a big glass of H2O and pretend I'm on the French Riviera!

I've been getting out right after breakfast in order to do an hour or so of gardening before the heat really kicks in. Have to admit that back to back rose shows this past weekend left me too beat to even think about it this morning but was just out looking and there are things crying for attention. The tomatoes need to be hoed and pruned, I've still got annuals and perennials to put in and a few tomatoes to plant. The sugar snaps need picking and I'll get at that tomorrow and have them for lunch. The garden is just coming into bloom with some of the old roses opening their first flowers this morning and Chettle Charm campanula starting up. Out in back new plants of verbascum Jackie and Jackie in Pink are in flower and the lupines are carrying on. And so, unfortunately is the trumpet vine which I can never get totally eradicated.
I could wish that the blooms didn't fade so fast - it's going to be a short season with lilies opening even before the roses fade. Have to grab it as it goes by.

yeah, i complain about the heat. but then i like to joke: "those new plants aren't gonna plant themselves..." living in the city, i kind of look forward to the weekend garden workout. i used to think that gardening was so simple. and i think that friends who visit our house have no idea of what kind of labor actually goes into this. they just show up and there's a lush flower jungle that magically appears from the ground. people who have never done it have _no idea_.

i like to start work in the morning, too, when it's still cooler. but then i end up working through the entire day -- breaking sometimes for water, of course -- taking advantage of every second of daylight.

but i kind of like the feeling of a hard day's workout in the yard, followed by sipping sidecars on the porch in the evening. no pain, no gain.

--robbie--