Summer has sprung

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