Yay for rain!

It's been beautifully sunny the past few days. Which is great for the plants, but it also means that I'm watering quite a bit.

Starting yesterday and on into today we're getting a good soaking rain.

A lot of the plants I put into the garden this year are drought-tolerant after the first year (salal, hebe, etc.). But until they're established, their tender roots need water.

So I love it when we get a nice day or two of soaking rain tucked in between the nice weather.

While it was still sunny I tried an experiment on the stupid knotweed that Andy kindly pointed out. I bought a huge marinade syringe, this one to be exact:



Then I filled it full of Round-up and injected it into the stalks of the knotweed. We'll see how it goes. I assume it did some good underground damage to the rhizome.

Since it was rainy yesterday I had to forego heavy-duty gardening in favor of adding some decorative touches. I got some cool bird baths, a copper trellis and a bird feeder from a friend of mine. And I also put in some willow edging around the bamboo plots to hide the black rhizome barrier and to add a nice accent: