Garden Glimpses: The Middling Time
Ah, June! That middling month ‘twixt spring and summer, not properly belonging to either, albeit the time when summer officially begins. Spring is a distant memory, but summer’s promise has not yet come to full fruition. As the month commences, there’s a sea of green in the garden, punctuated at odd intervals by a stray splash of color. But as July dawns, more and more of the landscape unfolds into the panoply of tones, both fiery and cooling, which will dominate the next six weeks, until August’s mid-month slump robs us of nature’s palette once again.
