Garden fairies here!
We are garden fairies and we decided that we should write something and post it on this blog for three reasons. First because if we don’t, what will happen to it? Carol has not posted anything in days and days.
Second, if we didn’t post on this blog how would you good and faithful readers ever know what is really going on around here?
And finally, third, and most importantly, we are garden fairies and today, June 24, is International Fairy Day, and so we must write to celebrate ourselves because Carol appears to have once again planned no celebrations for this, our special day.
We are garden fairies.
Just writing this post will fulfil our first reason, so we shall move on to the second reason.
We will now tell the truth about what’s going on in this garden. Where to begin?
First of all, Granny ‘Gus’ McGarden, who rules over the Vegetable Garden Cathedral, was having fits trying to get Carol’s attention to pull out the old pea vines and toss that bolted lettuce. Granny says they make the garden look messy and unloved once they are done producing.
Well, Carol finally did that yesterday and then she proceeded to weed the garden. And much to our shock and surprise, she then planted some more green bean seeds where the lettuce had been. And watered them in nicely.
What? That was beyond our wildest expectations! Granny was sure pleased about all that.
We were also pleased when Carol did some deadheading in Plopper’s Field which was overgrown with straw foxglove. Seedy and Soddy did a fabulous job with those, we thought, but then enough is enough, it was time for those to be deadheaded. Carol also deadheaded salvias and pulled out a few obvious weeds, though the thicker the flowers, the fewer the weeds.
How did we get Carol to do all that? We are garden fairies and we don’t tell our secrets. However, Hortense and Honoria reported that Carol’s hand pruners smelled suspiciously like Someone Else’s Garden. Old Rainbow Tanglefly said it was because she went to a nephew’s garden and then a sister’s garden over the weekend and did some pruning in their gardens.
What? What about some pruning here? There are still a few shrubs here that are a bit bigger than we like for them to be. How in the garden-fairy-world will we get Carol to prune those now that it’s hot? We have just two words for Carol: Early Morning.
Early morning is when Carol should be out here on hot days and to her credit she has figured that out, but that means we garden fairies must be sure to have skedaddled by dawn to our hidey-holes, which if you’ve seen how Deema Mae Flowerweaver parties at night, isn’t always the easiest thing in the world.
But we are garden fairies. We will try, for the love of the garden. Always, for the love of the garden.
Anyway, in other news of this garden, we are pleased to report that Carol never did catch that mole that was digging all through her lawn and garden beds a few weeks ago. Instead, it appears the mole has moved on to another garden because there have been no new tunnels for quite a while. We are garden fairies! We will not say if we had anything to do with the mole’s escape, but we will not say that we didn’t. Long live the mole!
This post is already longer than we would like so we will get to our third reason for posting, to celebrate International Fairy Day. How will we celebrate? We are garden fairies. We cannot divulge such secrets. But, to ensure we can celebrate without interruption, we respectfully ask that you do not go out into your gardens this evening or go out through the night, no matter what noise, lights, or other activities you may or may not see. You may re-enter your gardens at dawn tomorrow, June 25th.
We are garden fairies. Thank you in advance.
Submitted by:
Viola GreenPea MayDreams, Chief Scribe and Chair of the Committee for a Successful International Fairy Day
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