"Allow time each day to simply enjoy your garden. Don't dwell on the negatives--the weeds, the unfinished tasks, the plants nibbled by rabbits. Instead, focus your eyes on the beauty of details--a newly opened flower, dewdrops gleaming in the sun, a butterfly winging from bloom to bloom."
So true--when I make my daily rounds around my garden I do make what seems a never-ending mental list of tasks. I also keep whining about doings of rabbits and deer. Recently deer had eaten soon-to-be-open double daylily blooms in the side yard.
It's hard not to take this personally. Why my daylilies and never ever anything from the neighbor's garden? I was pouting about a row of missing flowers. Then I read the paragraph in the magazine, and it reminded me to enjoy the one bloom that deer did not eat. It is pictured below on the left.
The same day in another side of the garden I noticed a pink daylily--one I've not seen before. This is my third summer with this garden, and deer had always eaten daylily buds before they had opened in this spot. This summer they had their daylily fill in another place. Now I can enjoy this specimen. Is not it beautiful?
Veggie garden also is doing great. All the seeding and transplanting is done and the plants keep growing. I have pulled a few weeds here and there, but mostly big-leafed plants keep it in check themselves. I was planning to pull out broccoli plants since they'll no longer produce, but then decided to keep them where they are. After all, I do not have anything at the moment to put in their place. They have started blooming and that attracts some pollinators. Zucchinis have started blooming and garlic is wilting--soon it will be time to harvest both.
As about little things and details, there's never lack of those, just have to look closer. I just love this delicate dill bloom...
and this green fly on a sunflower...
and a goldfinch snacking on some seed pods (look in the center of the picture)...
as well as this bee in a hibiscus bloom.
There's always something to do and always something beautiful to see in a garden.
It's hard not to take this personally. Why my daylilies and never ever anything from the neighbor's garden? I was pouting about a row of missing flowers. Then I read the paragraph in the magazine, and it reminded me to enjoy the one bloom that deer did not eat. It is pictured below on the left.
The same day in another side of the garden I noticed a pink daylily--one I've not seen before. This is my third summer with this garden, and deer had always eaten daylily buds before they had opened in this spot. This summer they had their daylily fill in another place. Now I can enjoy this specimen. Is not it beautiful?
Veggie garden also is doing great. All the seeding and transplanting is done and the plants keep growing. I have pulled a few weeds here and there, but mostly big-leafed plants keep it in check themselves. I was planning to pull out broccoli plants since they'll no longer produce, but then decided to keep them where they are. After all, I do not have anything at the moment to put in their place. They have started blooming and that attracts some pollinators. Zucchinis have started blooming and garlic is wilting--soon it will be time to harvest both.
As about little things and details, there's never lack of those, just have to look closer. I just love this delicate dill bloom...
and this green fly on a sunflower...
and a goldfinch snacking on some seed pods (look in the center of the picture)...
as well as this bee in a hibiscus bloom.
There's always something to do and always something beautiful to see in a garden.
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