The gardening starts in late March, when the flowers are still dormant. It is always discouraging because the idea that these plots of land, with skeletons of last year’s blooms shriveled and frozen, will be bursting with beauty seems futile. Almost nothing can grow in the barren wasteland.
Then, at first slowly, then rapidly, the flowers grow, the blooms burst open and your little garden has added beauty to the world.
Mowing, weeding, mulching, and pruning take time but are rewarding. Mid-May is the best time for a gardener, before it gets hot and everything gets dry and burned.
The gardner keeps working and being rewarded as the roses burst open, the lilies bloom, and the white petals become colorful black eyed susans.
But it keeps getting hotter, and drier. The weeds multiply, and no amount of weeding or watering can up with them. And once the are our gardens in less than their full glory but a representation of resilience we can all learn from.
You have a nice yard.
ReplyDeleteAll the flowers are so pretty and look very healthy. Weeds are truly annoying and make so much work. Mom was very discouraged with her tomato plants this year. Very unproductive to say the very least. Too much rain in May and too much heat and humidity in June and July, and now in August too. Oh well, that's what next year is for:)
ReplyDeleteWoos - Misty and Timber
Your flowers are beautiful and colorful and you're right - you just can't keep up with the weeding!
ReplyDeleteIt's the cycle of life and sometimes the weeds offer little blooms, fill in an empty space, are just being neighbors to the flowers ... if not the tidiest of neighbors ...
ReplyDeleteYour flowers are lovely, or were! Right now everything is scorched here, it's been heat wave after heat wave and almost no rain since the spring. On the up side, there's no grass to mow!
ReplyDeleteYour garden looks great, Ruby Rose.
ReplyDeleteRuby Rose I love how your garden grows and brings such joy to all
ReplyDeleteHugs cecilia
Good point on resilience!
ReplyDeleteQuite the successful gardening!
ReplyDeleteWe tend to let Nature do its stuff - and let most of the weeds have their way with our yard -
Our current project/challenge is keeping The Volunteer Tomato plant somewhat tied up - it's soooo limbie - but Mom tries - she thinks about getting a tomato cage but continues to McGyver it!
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Willow
I wish we had a flower garden that looks so nice!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful post (and garden), and wonderful analogy!
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Rosy & Sunny
Your garden is beautiful! And it's a lot of work, but so worth it, just look at those flowers, gorgeous! 😻
ReplyDeleteWe have some of the same flowers, we have some of the same flowers! An excited Styx for the River Cats
ReplyDeleteJava Bean: "SÃ, no matter how much work our Dada does out there, the weeds are always taller and greener than the grass!"
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