I brought up some ‘Lucifer’ Crocosmias to put in our mountain garden, because the deer never ate the blooms in our Zone 7 gardens.

The night before the planned photo shoot featuring a perfectly shaped stand,  the deer here came through and beheaded most of the clump.

There is a new type of slug here. Great!

I will be switching to blogging about nature instead of battling it when I fully recover. I have been at war too long. I will always want nature to win, despite my dreams of gorgeous flowers and tasty herbs.

My family sent me photos from home of my flowers. Here are two plants thriving in my absence.

FLOW switching tactics