Mr. Flower will be pleased.
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Mr. Flower will be pleased.
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Saving the Melons
Mr. Flower has his own garden.
I am given assignments where it is concerned.
My latest assignment is “Save the Melons.”
I have to admit that I failed at this last summer.
I put a little fence ring around the melon.
I put a cover over the ring and checked it for ripeness each afternoon.
Just before picking time,
I discovered that something had crawled down into the fence
and eaten the inside of the melon leaving only the peeling.
So this year I am trying a new approach.
I have put Mr. Flower’s melons in mesh bags.
I am hoping the varmint will not like getting his claws or teeth ensnared.
Let’s hope this works.
Mr. Flower take produce production seriously.
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The Cacti Don’t Care
It’s much too hot for me out there, but the cacti don’t care.
They keep on growing without slowing.
When the sun is blazing they are amazing.
They tend to thrive where no others survive.
They get dry but do not die.
They think it’s fun to sit in the sun.
I’m no fool. I am in where it’s cool.
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Sleeping, Creeping, Leaping
One of my garden mantras is “Never ever plant ivy.”
I may have to add another vine in there.
I love my Creeping Fig, Ficus pumila.
The first year here, it seemed to be sleeping.
Last year it began creeping over the wall.
This year it has leaped onto pots and statuary.
I took these two photos seven days apart.
I still love this vine, but too much of a good thing can be a bad thing.
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Almost Frogs
I was about to clean out the acorns from the pond,
when I noticed some had tails and were swimming!
What I was seeing weren’t acorns, but itty bitty tadpoles.
I have watched them develop this week.
They are almost frogs.
They have stopped swimming and have climbed out onto the floating leaves
to sit in the sun and absorb their tails.
These tiny little frogs are precious!
Flow loves frogs
Watching Water
I have been watching the water…and thinking.
It is still and smooth most of the time, with a ripple here and there.
Sometimes a line of waves forms and changes everything.
That’s how my life is right now.
Waves keep rolling across my smooth life.
I am in control of only my own buoyancy.
The water acts and I react.
Will I float? Will I swim with the waves or against them?
Will I rise and fall with the water
or let gravity win and go under?
I do not know what the water will do
but I know what I will do.
I will stay afloat
Because I am a survivor.
I choose to stay up
no matter the water.
Flow
The Banana Forest
Yesterday when the sun was high, I sought some shade in the banana forest.
Its giant leaves served as umbrellas.
The wind moved them like fans.
The banana forest was dancing around me.
An oasis away from the sun and heat.
I was surrounded by swaying green.
I pretended my cares were far away, not just across the driveway.
Everyone should have a banana forest to escape into.
Flower
Orange Perfection Phlox
I am finally seeing blooms from my ‘Orange Perfection’ garden phlox.
It has been here for two seasons.
I guess my cheap self shocked it by dividing it into six plants before planting it last spring.
I am pleased with the color. It’s a lovely salmon with a magenta eye.
The stems are a bit floppy, but I like how it leans on the rocks and peeks over.
I am happy with them. They are the perfect orange.
Flower
My Friends’ Farm
I usually visit this farm in June at the peak of daylily season.
I did not get there until July this year. I am glad.
There was a whole different crop of flowers.
They seemed unbothered by the heat of the southern summer.
This place used to be a working dairy farm then a daylily farm.
Now it’s just home to folks and flowers, goats and horses.
Here are some daylilies that bloom mid-July.
I always enjoy my time with these friends and their flowers.
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