Gardens delight and gardens disappoint. Our dogwood tree out front is dead — thank you rabbits! Two of my Rose of Sharon trees out front — also dead, also thank you rabbits.
But two pots that I emptied over by the arbor vitae until I found the time to chop up the dirt, sprouted. With mums!
This morning is warm. At last! I placed the recently-potted pussy willow that Ginny gave me outdoors. Weeded. Potted up a few annuals. Twist-tied my new clematis to a lattice on the south side of the house.
We had scones from Maine for breakfast. Thank you Lisa! Ginger lemon. So, so tasty.
Today’s thank you notes are headed to Idaho, California, Washington, Florida, and Vermont. Such a wide net of care!
These were the first notes I’ve been able to write in over a week. It’s hard.
Meanwhile I’m about to call the Epstein Quilt finished. I added a Deb Lacativa moon last night and another organza moon and another shark head and lots more quilting. I could stitch this thing all summer, I think, and still find areas to run my needle. But soon, enough will be enough.
Gardens, like life, are full of both hope and disappointment . But I get more satisfaction from it than not.
Same. Although with such a history of things dying we really need to test our soil.
Fortunately I don’t have rabbits here.
Squirrels , skunks, raccoons, possums, and coyotes! I killed my rose of Sharon years ago. (Sharon was my moms name)
I think I planted it where it wasn’t getting enough sun.
In the past years when we’ve tried to grow any vegetables in our backyard they are eaten by either squirrels, rabbits, raccoons, possum, box turtles, birds … so I give up! summers are too hot and I get eaten by bugs so I’ll leave gardening to those hardier and enthusiastic gardeners😁
Good luck with yours Dee!
Dee~ It must feel good to have a warm day, with hands in the soil and Finney-Boy on the porch…foods and love from everywhere, all sound good.
I wonder what you will choose to stitch next? Something heartwarming and fulfilling, I hope.
I might go back to turtles. Or maybe hearts. Haven’t done one of those in a while.
Haven’t done much outside, hostas and bleeding hearts came up and then got frozen. Another freeze expected this week.
I keep sticking my hands in the dirt. We need that.
Keep stitching.
Frozen bleeding hearts. Ouch.
So sad…