O.K.,here's my question: why is the last weekend in June the big weekend for garden walks? More often than not,it's the hottest weekend of the Summer; my wife just barely humors me by going on the Iowa City Green walk, and only once have we actually gone to all the gardens, due to the heat. Also, to me that particular weekend is one of the "deadest" weekends in the garden for spectacular bloom. The roses have just turned to mush in the heat, but the daylilies and most of the other high Summer perennials haven't cranked up yet; give me a tour in late May when the azaleas are all in bloom and the whole garden is perfumed, or the first weekend of June when the old-fashioned roses are so weighted down with flowers that all the branches are touching the ground.On the last weekend of June the garden is mostly perfumed with fungicide.

Don