Garden Update

Posted on Aug 31, 2011 | 9 comments

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“Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.” -Unknown

Little by little my garden is starting to fill in. This is the time of year when all the weeding and planting starts to pay off, and these last few days of summer become even sweeter with knowing that they will soon be changing to fall. I thought I’d share a couple of photos of my grass border before:

Just after planting this spring

And now:

Starting to bloom and fill in!

And here is my hillside path before:

Last year at this time

And after:

My heathers are starting to fill in!

Can you almost smell the honeysuckle and sweet peas?

“In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.” ~Abram L. Urban

Passion Flowers on the Vine

I’m drinking in the sun, soaking in the smells and digging my hands deep in the soil to nourish my gardener’s spirit enough to last all winter. I’m thinking of family and friends who gave me the gardening bug, missing those who are no longer with us.

I come to the garden alone While the dew is still on the roses And the voice I hear falling on my ear The Son of God discloses.  And He walks with me, and He talks with me, And He tells me I am His own; And the joy we share as we tarry there, None other has ever known.

My favorite time is the early evening, just before dusk, when I go out to harvest vegetables for the table, collect the eggs and care for the animals. Our new hens have started to lay, sweet little baby sized eggs in soft brown shades. (The carton was given to us by a neighbor. I would never buy styrofoam!) It seems everyone thinks we must be swimming in eggs, but we eat them all ourselves somehow!

see how much smaller the ones on the lower right are?

“It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought”. ~James Douglas

Lilies from the garden and freshly made Blackberry Jam!