07.02.2025 | Ordinary Wednesday

Oh, what a beautiful morning here in the Carondelet Garden in south Saint Louis!  The day started with 67-degree temperatures and low humidity.  A perfect morning to walk the Garden Doodle a bit longer than usual.  She was in heaven!  Mostly sunny skies this morning with a few afternoon clouds coming around.  Highs in the low 90s.  Winds are light and variable.  A gorgeous day!

"When Cardinals appear, angels are near!"  I used to hear my grandma say that every summer when a Cardinal would land in her yard.  This has definitely been a bird-watching year here in the Garden.  The songbirds have been singing their hearts out every morning.  The robins built a nest in our ferns, and we had babies!  Such a bit of grace in a world turned upside down and sideways!

Today is the perfect gardening day for a mid-summer Wednesday.  Our blueberries are struggling in their current location.  Definitely a wrong plant, wrong location situation so I'm going to be brave and move them to a new raised bed location.  It is protected and a bit of its own microclimate so I'm hoping they will thrive.  Gardening is a constant challenge with some successes and some failures.  That is part of life.  I was told once that you never really know a plant until you've killed one twice!  I'm beginning to believe it, even though it still hurts!

Into the Garden I go on this stunning, sunny Wednesday in July.  Be good to yourself, and kind as you journey about this first week of July.  That's all the news from here in the Carondelet Garden.