Sunday wonders - W

W is for Waiting.   Nature is very good at teaching us humans to be patient and just - wait. 

About ten years ago, we had to cut down a towering rhododendron right by our front door.  I've been looking in our old garden diaries but can't find exactly when.  It's too bad I can't just hit Control F and bring it up!  The year after we took down the rhody, we discovered a baby growing and of course it went in a pot.  This is the first year that baby has bloomed - isn't it pretty?  Guess the baby is all grown up now.

It's taken three years for this white clematis montana to bloom.  But it's grown and spread wonderfully.  Here it is making friends with another purple rhody.
 

We're waiting for the Dublin Bay rose to bloom against that white clematis.  One of the reasons to have a climbing red rose. 

This is the beginning of my second crop of Asian radishes.  The leaves are about half the size of my pinky nail - really tiny. The grains of soil look like boulders next to it. 

If we're patient - and if the slugs and/or the robins don't get there first, we'll have strawberries.

And sometimes waiting is so hard.  This deck furniture is waiting for a sunny day.  It's been a while since our last few days of warmth.    C'mon, sun!  Try a little harder.