Green and more green

The purple alliums are just starting to bloom. The bearded iris want to bloom, but are still holding out for 70 degrees. I'm hoping to show off our peonies and iris when John's brother and sister-in-law visit next week, but it's not looking good. The next four days in Seattle will be soggy and cool, right through the holiday weekend. I was just watching the local forecast and the weatherman was all excited about the possibility of a "mostly dry" day on Sunday.

But it's still beautiful in an intensely green sort of way. And when the sun appeared yesterday afternoon I snapped a few pictures of our mini-jungle.

Golden hops vine...

A 10 foot laurel hedge begging for an expensive haircut...

Hostas on steriods...

Water-gorged succulent baskets...

Here's what our local weather expert Cliff Mass has to say about the coming few weeks:

During late May and much of June low clouds tend to dominate the lowlands of western Washington and the nearby offshore waters. Know as "June Gloom" in many circles, such persistent low cloudiness is a very typical feature of our climate. June is simply not a great month here and there are reasons for that. Want to know something REALLY depressing? According to the regional climate simulations being done by my group and others at the UW global warming will bring MORE low clouds during the spring around here.