I love this: "The garden is good for the control freak in us because we learn to roll with the losses and celebrate the small wins. The balance we seek is internal; the external balance in the garden comes from natural forces far greater than ourselves. We become participants, facilitators, guardians of nature." It's so true for me. The garden is a patient and unwavering teacher.
I love calendula! Unfortunately, so do the resident squirrels. I watched as one bellied up to a row of calendula and then start eating the plants down to their main stalks. I planted a couple of tomato plants nearby and made tiny metal cloches out of chicken wire... hopefully it will help. Your dahlias and hydrangea look beautiful.
So much wisdom. So much beauty. Lynn Cady wrote on similar lines this week and called it zucchinification, when the garden and the weeds and the zucchini’s start to write their own story.
I definitely have control issues because mid July among blazing heat and sometimes smoke is usually when I think it’s a good time to start my garden projects. This year, it’s a bubbler. One nice thing about the PNW is our relatively consistent cool dry mornings even in July.
Your flowers are gorgeous! We are in a constant battle with deer...stakes and twine form a hopefully deterring barrier, but could still be easily breached by a determined deer. The deer pruned our dahlias and bee balm...is there anything that they won’t sample? Being the optimist, I’m hoping that deer snipping the tops will produce more, albeit later blooms! As for weeding, it’s my daily therapy, the weeds are always there to get me out of my head and my incessant worries about my college age son who is spending his first summer away from home in the city. And yes, I too take heat breaks as an opportunity to rest, read, and make art, all necessary for self care. 💜💜
Thanks! Luckily, I don’t have deer in my neighborhood. But we have a booming population of rabbits. The garden is a great place to work with our hands and get out of our head, especially when we are worried about the world and people we love. Too many weeds, though, takes a toll on my legs and back!
I love this: "The garden is good for the control freak in us because we learn to roll with the losses and celebrate the small wins. The balance we seek is internal; the external balance in the garden comes from natural forces far greater than ourselves. We become participants, facilitators, guardians of nature." It's so true for me. The garden is a patient and unwavering teacher.
I’m glad it resonated. Observing nature has taught me so many things—practical and spiritual.
I grew up on the East Coast. I miss my family but not the humidity. I wasn’t trying to brag though, just justifying my insane July garden projects. 😂
😂 I finally finished a pea gravel path around my beds, and now I don’t want to do anything.
I love calendula! Unfortunately, so do the resident squirrels. I watched as one bellied up to a row of calendula and then start eating the plants down to their main stalks. I planted a couple of tomato plants nearby and made tiny metal cloches out of chicken wire... hopefully it will help. Your dahlias and hydrangea look beautiful.
Wow, I didn’t know squirrels liked it too.
Me neither. I was stumped for a few days when I spotted the stripped plants. Then I caught it in the act!
Ha, caught in the act! 😂 I recently heard a rumor that someone in my neighborhood is raising squirrels…yikes.
So much wisdom. So much beauty. Lynn Cady wrote on similar lines this week and called it zucchinification, when the garden and the weeds and the zucchini’s start to write their own story.
I definitely have control issues because mid July among blazing heat and sometimes smoke is usually when I think it’s a good time to start my garden projects. This year, it’s a bubbler. One nice thing about the PNW is our relatively consistent cool dry mornings even in July.
Zucchinification—haha! Cool dry mornings sound lovely.
Gorgeous flowers!
Thanks!
Your flowers are gorgeous! We are in a constant battle with deer...stakes and twine form a hopefully deterring barrier, but could still be easily breached by a determined deer. The deer pruned our dahlias and bee balm...is there anything that they won’t sample? Being the optimist, I’m hoping that deer snipping the tops will produce more, albeit later blooms! As for weeding, it’s my daily therapy, the weeds are always there to get me out of my head and my incessant worries about my college age son who is spending his first summer away from home in the city. And yes, I too take heat breaks as an opportunity to rest, read, and make art, all necessary for self care. 💜💜
Thanks! Luckily, I don’t have deer in my neighborhood. But we have a booming population of rabbits. The garden is a great place to work with our hands and get out of our head, especially when we are worried about the world and people we love. Too many weeds, though, takes a toll on my legs and back!