When I sat down to write today’s post, I felt completely unprepared. And for the first time in a really long time, I was tempted to skip blogging this week.

It’s truly amazing how much changes in the garden in just one month.

We’re more than half-way through June. The solstice is just a few days away. Summer is well and truly here.

Not much was happening in the garden in April, but now things are really starting to take off.

I spent Monday in my garden. Mondays are technically the weekend for me and I was so glad my time off coincided with good weather.

When I woke up on Wednesday the temperature was 43. The warmest we’ve seen this year. On my morning walk I didn’t need a hat. Chickadees and cardinals sang their delight at the taste of spring in the air.

The next day it was more than 30 degrees colder.

In Wisconsin by the time November rolls around, we’ve usually had our first frost. Sometimes we’ve already had our first snow, too.

I’m never certain if I’ll have flowers blooming in my garden in October or not.

In September in Wisconsin, the gardening season is winding down.

If July’s garden stars were purple poppies, August’s are sunflowers.