Summer has sprung

I’m at the end of the first week of my summer vacation and already the days are starting to blur together. I’m sitting on my balcony while writing this, the smell of rain in the air. It’ll be good to get some rain after these last days of heat. My roses are really feeling the strain of the heat - I’m seeing drying leaves on the Rosa Helenae rambler, and some dry heat-loving spider mites on the Rosa Camelot.