July is NOT my favorite month in the garden.

Water, weed, pick, again; water, weed, pick, again…

Too many tommy toes.

Itchy squash plants host their skittering beetles.

Zucchinis grow giant the minute my back is turned.

Pumpkins? I didn’t plant pumpkins.

Tomatoes… tomahtoes…potatoes…potahtoes..

Let’s kill the whole thing off.     Get the sprayer and fill it with herbicide.

WAIT!      There is one non-needy, non-weedy spot left in the garden.

A group of flowers, each wearing a crown.

Pineapple Lily.    Eucomis.

I appreciate these lovely, long spires of delicate blooms.

I have a change of heart and get the hose to water instead.

Garden Saved by Eucomis!!!