Pleasing Peas Plus Plant Poses

The Jardin in June - jumping.

With weekends away of late, it feels like I miss out on the day to day developments, and when I am back, the plants that are still alive mature by leaps and bounds.

Over the past week, the sugar snap peas went from just vines with nearly open buds and immature pods ...

...to vines with some ready to eat peas. 

Well, one ready to eat pod - and it was tasty, freshly washed by the rain (well, I hope it was "washed" and not dirtied or acidified by the shower, because it's in my tummy now).

(The sugar snap peas were the only things I got around to planting from seed this year.)

The dianthus had burst open in all its color. 

And I finally caught the day lilies during the day.

One of the red miniature roses bloomed. 

And then there was bittersweet - pretty, but not planned, so it will go; but first, but first, a photo of the striking little purple flowers with the yellow middles.

This year will be hit or miss as far as what comes up. Plants that had survived in years past through far harsher conditions succumbed. And it wasn't a particularly cold Winter, just dry. I probably should have started watering earlier when the Spring rains didn't come. Instead, the maple trio lost their early leaves, and one of them has yet to bounce back. Ah well. Survival of the fittest.