. It is time for Nature Friday thanks to our hosts the LLB Gang
I got up this morning, took a picture of Foley’s garden, wrote my Nature Friday blog, and went back to sleep.
When I awoke I looked outside for one last check before publishing my blog and saw my meddling parents had moved things around.
This is our 15th year of gardening and the first that has been done by my Dad mainly since Mommy’s body will no longer support weeding or plaanting, and I don’t have opposable thumbs, and would help with the digging, but it ruins my nails. Subsequently, there has been some talk of moving to a place more accessible for Mom, so this could be our last year gardening, and if so we want to go out with a bang.
My parents have learned not to plant annuals in the ground because the weather changes, and some flowers that were thriving begin to waste away, and need more or less sun, and the same with water.
My Dad, as chief gardner, who still takes orders from Mom, our gardner emeritus, has a “Picture This” app which, after you upload a picture of your plant, shows the name, a description, and if the plant is healthy. The bag of Impatient
s that were hanging from a tree branch behind Foley’s garden looked sick, and had to be moved to the side garden. Impatiens usually don’t do well in direct sunlight. The black planter in the front of the garden has Impatients that were drying up in the side garden. They look wilted but hopefully they will bounce back.
The tippy tricycle hold Impatiens that had to be scraped off the mulch when the planter lived up to its name. To the right are a planter full of marigolds.
In front, to the left are Tiger Lilies yet to bloom, the aptly named Big Leaf Hydrangea, and a great laurel.
Hanging in the back is a hanging plant with Garden petunia.
There is some flox on the ground not in bloom.
Hanging from the tree, where the hanging Impatiens had been, is a wind chime gifted from a friend after Foley went to the Bridge, and a humming bird feeder.
The chairs in the back were from Target.
Here is a picture of Foley’s garden.
Given my parent’s obsession it may look different tomorrow.
No matter, we here think your garden is very pretty!
ReplyDeletePetcretary keeps hinting that because of pawppy's mobility challenges we too should consider a smaller place with no yard, well at least a way smaller one that the one acre we have right now...sigh...where would be our running fun??
Gardening is a lot of work and your garden looks beautiful. BTW, we don't see a single weed!
ReplyDeleteJust a thought ... I would hope for you, that if/when the day comes that a move does happen in your lives ... the new home includes a little patio or garden. After a lifetime of gardening, I do so very much miss it ... my little apartment is fine but for the fact of "no outdoor space". Sad.
ReplyDeleteMeant "a little patio or balcony" ... a few potted plants in season feed the soul.
ReplyDeleteYour garden is looking great! Our dad is getting to be a bit old for gardening too and he is the head gardener here.
ReplyDeleteWell, the garden does look really pretty so they are doing some good work with your supervision!
ReplyDeleteWe have always admired your beautiful gardens. We hope your Mom can find ways to still get around and enjoy the pretty flowers. Our Mom has slowly been trying to move the grotto area of our yard into a garden of perennials, but she still hasn't quite worked out how to get it to bloom through the spring and summer. She needs to examine the choices she makes more closely. But it is getting there.
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Let your humans go wild, Ruby.
ReplyDeleteThey'll love you for it.
The garden looks beautiful.
ReplyDeleteJava Bean: "Ayyy, it is a very pretty garden! Many places to sniff! And as for moving things around, well, humans seem to just love to do that. It helps keep them out of trouble I guess ..."
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