This morning I discovered that deer do, in fact, eat gladioli. The fact that my blooms have gone unmolested for the past 3 seasons did not save them from being eaten this year.
Oxalis is underrated as a landscaping plant! The bees love it. Edible (in small quantities... though probably wouldn't eat these, the dog also likes marking it, ha ha) #gardening#garden#flowers
I live in an apartment building & my landlord kindly allows me to garden. A neighbor approached me about starting some vegetables so we've added some heirloom tomatoes, sweet peppers, kale, & turnips along with some purple basil to my flower garden. We've got our 1st tomato and peppers forming👍
(06/24/23)
Morning glory Grandpa Otts: this electric beauty surprises me every morning as its trumpets open at different places on the vine. I managed to keep the slugs off (garlic spray!) when they were babies, so now about a dozen plants are climbing through the August garden. Each flower opens for just one day. But what a day.
If I decide to "take 5" at my computer after doing some strenuous garden work, with the intention of grabbing a shower & making myself presentable after those 5 minutes, I should not
a) open Mastodon
b) open PhotoShop
If you put a human mouth on a bee while it's poking at pollen it looks a little like it has a hipster goatee beard.
Sleep didn't come easy last night. I finally just got up and went to the family room and kicked back in my magic chair. Sleep came to me after 03:00 A.M. True to his heart, Charlie left me alone until almost seven, "time to eat." But after feeding the dogs and putting on the coffee, I slept another hour, or so. Speaking of Charlie, he just came in to pester me about going outside again.
Sometimes I wonder, in all that tossing and turning, did I sleep a bit without knowing. Hmmm ... more coffee please.
“It’s a long way back to sunset, a far way on to dawn, so you summon all the fool things of your life, the stupid lovely things done with people known so very well who are now so very dead...” - Ray Bradbury
“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”
Passion Flower is the most interesting bloom in my garden but it has struggled to really get going.
I haven’t had a lot of success with plants grown in pots because they are in the hottest part of the yard and dry out too fast. I tried to correct this by adding Soil Moist to the pots and then it rained for 3 months straight 🤦🏻♀️
January: Microraptor and the Flowers. I started this year out making paleoart watercolours and never really stopped. This one is about a Microraptor investigating the first flowers she’s ever seen. The flowers are Lingyuananthus, a lovely little fossil flower described in an even lovelier paper that was not behind a paywall for once.
#Jasmine is blooming again. We keep them indoors for 3/4 of year & move outside for late Spring-Summer. Good indoor natural air purifying #plant. Flowers are #edible & used to make tea & fruits used in #Chinese#TraditionalMedicine.