Beautiful lollipops until the moose found them, I'm sure.
I'm in Western PA, we're fairly spoiled with a good growing season here, though I'm along one of the ridge tops so sudden early and late freezes sometimes hit us. But that rain! At least I'm just a hobbyist. I know a lot of farm-as-a-life-and-job people in the area who lost so much seedcrop to the rain, and now that the rain's finally let off (straight to uncomfortably hot, though) it's going to be very late to start.
But my personal garden survived much better than it looked! A few things were stunted, some herbs did die, but all the veggies came through and most of my flowers. I've already replaced most of the herbs (the sage is under watch right now). I hurt my back badly enough last week that I can't do a lot of hard work just yet, but I had some help weeding earlier today and I'm healed just enough to dig in prepared dirt. Tomorrow I'll transplant as many of my perennials as I can, I'm a few years into a project to repair a 15-year ignored perennial garden. Some sunflowers to go in, too. If I can have help hauling potting soil around, I can even get my porch plants all arranged.
I also am falling in love with the idea of a cutting garden and put a bunch of purple-and-white daisies into the gaps by the herb garden.
I asked this question on facebook but it'd be good here too, I think. I have an old English style garden (well, that's what I was told it was, no idea how accurate the name is). It's got a big old catulpa tree in the middle and has forsythia and lilac and honeysuckle around it. Some irises and lilies, too, and I just added a rose and I'm trying to resurrect an old small-blossom rose bush that survived the neglect. The basic shape of the garden is there, but I want to fill in the gaps for all the trees and bushes that have died through the years, and there is room for shade-tolerant plants in the center. My goal is to make the shape into a meditative spiral, and I want to help that along with plants that are either fully native here or have a good mythology to them. Botanist friends filled me in on native, but I still need myth-filled suggestions for plants that are between 3 and 15 feet high, bushes or trees that don't mind close neighbors, and small shade-happy plants. The small ones can be annual but the rest would ideally be longer-lived.
I know that's awful specific, but where better to ask for storied plants than a gardening subforum on a writing forum, right? XD
Harvest report: Baby bok choy, carrot tops (from thinning the seedlings, but good in salads or lightly wilted), and one black radish. And a ton of wild mint.