A good path invites you into a garden for a closer look. At least that's my idea for this path which snakes through a larger garden bed. It allows you to get off the lawn and be closer to plants on both sides. In the spring when I host the World's Greatest Family Easter Egg Hunt, the little kids quickly discover this path and then proceed to run up and down it once they realize that I don't care where they walk in the garden. After all, it's spring when they are here so plants are … [Read more...] about A Good Path…
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Philosophical Pawpaw Ponderings
And once again, I am not going to taste a pawpaw fruit from my pawpaw trees this year. My two pawpaw trees, this one pictured and another one on the other side of the garden, didn't flower all that well in the spring and as I recall, there was some frost upon those flowers. If I am remembering correctly. Anyway, I looked occasionally throughout the summer for any fruit forming and never saw any. So that brings us to the philosophical question... is it better to have no pawpaws at … [Read more...] about Philosophical Pawpaw Ponderings
Another Gardening Rule to Break!
"You should remove any flowers that form on coleus because you are growing it for its foliage and the flowers aren't all that attractive." Thus it is written, and thus you, fellow gardener, shall do it. Don't let those coleus flowers form! Cut them off! Nip them literally in the bud! It has been decreed! If you like to follow all the gardening rules, you may now stop reading at this point. Otherwise, continue to read about breaking rules.... And yet, I did not remove the flowers … [Read more...] about Another Gardening Rule to Break!
Morning!
I do like "first thing in the morning" as the best time to get things done. So far this morning... I've watered the front lawn. How did it get so dry so fast? After not having to water since the end of May, I decided to water today because how did it get so dry so fast? Admittedly, this occurred without my help, or much of my help. I just had to successfully program the sprinkler system to turn on automatically this morning. I've watered all the containers. I did this manually and have … [Read more...] about Morning!
Start This Thing Called a Garden
When was that time of the season when I could sit back and relax because the spring gardening to-do list was finished, with everything crossed off as done? Never. Never was that time. A garden is ever-changing, after all, and never finished. Who was it that said gardening is the slowest of all art forms but unlike other art forms, like painting a picture of a garden, is never finished? Describing gardening that way makes it sound like something only a mad woman (or man) would … [Read more...] about Start This Thing Called a Garden
What’s the First Thing You Saw Outside This Morning?
The first thing I saw outside this morning was a hummingbird flitting around this pink salvia growing in one of my patio containers. Don't look for the hummingbird in my photo. I'm not that good at taking pictures of them, though I did post a picture earlier this summer on Instagram where I added in a hummingbird gif and made it a video. I thought everyone would realize I added the hummingbird, but since people scroll past images and videos so quickly on Instagram, it wasn't so obvious and … [Read more...] about What’s the First Thing You Saw Outside This Morning?
