I’ve had to temporarily move my deck planters while my husband is doing work on our deck, and what should I find when I walk out there this afternoon? The mint is leaping out of the planter and going straight for the in-ground garden. Naughty mint! You’ve really got to keep an eye on that stuff! (I don’t have a picture because I went straight over and nipped that in the bud…err…in the runner vine.)
Is there such a thing as mass hysteria for flowers? Today I dead-headed my yucca and what should I find: But…the roses have definitely been confused about bloom time this year (and not just in my garden). So, I guess the yucca has decided to join in on whatever that is?
Things are weird in my garden right now, and not just because of the weather. The inside of one of my hoses collapsed (how does that happen?!). And this iris has been lying, beheaded, on the pavement for 3 DAYS without wilting. It’s like the laws of physics are reinventing themselves!
So! November has come and it is time for the Showing of the Roses! This was a really weird year for my garden. It started with a positively luxuriously wet spring, wherein simply everything was green. But that then evolved into the usual Hot and Dry Summer, which was further compounded by my being away and not watering for large swaths of that time. And then we’ve had an exceptionally mild fall, but I think most of the plants were…
The once-a-year bounty of pears this year has been particularly bountiful. Here are some of them, getting ready to be made into pearsauce.
Meet Hawk. Hawk may or may not have followed us home from the garden center, where we first noticed it by its shadow circling by overhead. After nonchalantly devouring its meal on our deck, Hawk flew off to sit in a tree.
Actual quote from my vampire husband: “The sun is out–Aagh!” Separately: It seems I have a two-headed tulip in my garden (which also looks a bit vampiric).
Today I have done something almost unprecedented! I bought flowers for my garden and planted them all in one day! Happy gardening!
Alright! It’s November, which means that (at least theoretically) all of the roses that were going to bloom in my garden have done so, and now I get to show them off. If it sounds like I’m a kid showing off their Christmas presents, that’s because I do quite love my roses (definitely more than my gardening skills warrant). These aren’t exactly prize-winning flowers, but I’m going to show them to you anyway! Before I begin, though, I have to…
I have a purple rose from my garden blooming on Halloween! How cool is that? Also, there was frost and real, spooky fog this morning – so perfect!