Garden Fairies Discuss Self-Sowing Appreciation

Garden fairies here!

We are garden fairies and we are going to write a post about self-sowing and appreciating all the self-sown flowers, but it is also a post about how Carol is envious, jealous, and covetous of how in her sister’s garden, there are way more self-sown violas than in her garden.

We are garden fairies and we take umbrage and are indignant and down-right outraged that Carol would not look at her own garden just a bit more closely to see that she has an abundance of self-sown plants around here.

And by self-sown, we mean garden fairy sown, of course. Like we wrote about in this post from the past.

And we aren’t talking about easy self-sowing plants like asters, daisies, and dandelions.

That last one, dandelion, might be considered a weed by some folks, but we are garden fairies, and we consider dandelions to be pretty yellow flowers.

Did you know that Carol favors yellow flowers in her front garden in the summertime? She does and thus you would think that she would love the dandelions we self-sowed in front but she does not. She killed them with a spray that had iron chelate in it. The nerve! Seedy and Soddy worked so hard on getting those dandelions going. All for naught! All for naught!

But back to self-sown plants. Out in the Vegetable Garden Cathedral, we are pleased to see the return of self-sown dill, fennel, and nicotiana. Granny ‘Gus’ McGarden’s new helpers, Basil the Brazen and Thyme the Timid, have really helped Granny with these. Already we can see that they are going to help Granny in many ways.

But perhaps the crowning glory, the pinnacle of our success with seed-sowing, is that we got some of the Spigelia marilandica, what some folks call Indian Pinks, to self-sow in the August Dreams Gardens. Honoria and Hortense were quite pleased to do it and chuffed to bits when Carol finally noticed it and took its picture. (See above.)

One would think, reasonably so, that seeing that seedling blooming would put out of Carol’s mind that her sister has more self-sown violas than she has.

Or maybe seeing that we got a viola to self-sow in the patio (the patio!) and bloom would give her great joy.

Or maybe she should remember back to the crocus lawn? Or recall all the ‘Lady Jane’ tulips? Or the columbine flowers that bloomed this spring throughout the garden? Those flowers and bulbs are all self-sowing in ways that make other gardeners weep and gnash their teeth with envy!

Honestly, there’s an embarrassingly large number of self-sown flowers around this garden and yet Carol is jealous of the number of violas her sister has that self-sowed?

Honestly, we can only shake our garden fairy heads over Carol and her obsession with violas.

Honestly, we think she needs help, but we are garden fairies. There is only so much we can do.

Honestly, we are busy, so this is now the end of this post! We are garden fairies.

Respectfully submitted by Violet GreenPea MayDreams, Chief Scribe and Founder of the Self-Sown Flowers Appreciation Society