Do you take an early morning garden walk?
I do. With my coffee. I take my time, looking at each part of my garden, each plant, each bit of empty space, each weed. I admire the new growth in the spring and the flowers when they appear. I assess how healthy and well-formed each plant appears at the moment. I'm playing doctor, nutritionist, nurse, noticing who is doing well and who is struggling. I look for deer and rabbit damage, and make plans if I find it. I evaluate the water situation. Questions arise that I will seek answers to on the internet when I get inside.
Weeds ... I am continually leaning over pulling them. To do this I have to set my coffee down, so I've tied a strip of fluorescent orange surveyor's tape around the mug so it won't get lost. The morning walk usually takes two cups of coffee. Later walks are shorter in duration.
A major motivation for this first walk of the day is to evaluate the design as it looks this season. Plans pop up for "moving the furniture around." New ideas arise that require playing musical chairs with the hostas and their friends. Sometimes these ideas actually get done, and when they do the garden's design as a whole gets better.
I get so wrapped up in design tasks that I fail to do some of the less entertaining maintenance jobs. For instance, I haven't applied horticultural oil yet to the holly hedge. The health of these shrubs depends on it. Maybe today. Or tomorrow. On the other hand, this year I did catch up on my pruning and raking since I stopped my ski instructor job early and was able to get full time into the garden earlier than usual.
Most importantly, every day, every walk, I feel gratitude that I have this garden to enjoy and take care of.
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Comments (8)Oh, thank you, Sandy, for the ID. I will label him properly. Won't he be a beautiful butterfly! I 'think' this is what the little cats are eating: Veronica repens Sunshine Golden Creeping Speedwell I didn't purchase it so I'm guessing. A local garden center gave me some little pots they were throwing away and some still had growing medium in them, along with what appeared to be dead plants. This one was a Steppables or Walkables plant and it just began to grow. I stuck it down in the garden and it continued to grow. It makes such a bright spot of color as it creeps over the top of the soil. Information on-line says the Buckeye/Junonia coenia cats will also eat these plants that I have growing: cudweed Mexican Petunia Ruellia brittoniana cracker Russelia equisetiformis Butterfly Bush Buddleia davidii (says not as favored but will use as host) Mary...See Morelets take a walk and look at P. p. Early Gold
Comments (7)Very nice. It has taken me awhile to truly appreciate variations of color, especially gold. Only gardening for 5 years, and at first I didn't understand the virtues of thornless roses. Figured that out fairly quickly. Then I realized that form and winter interest are of great importance. So I ripped out some roses in the foundation beds, and put in some boxwood. Much better. Always something new to learn. And some things are only learned when you have experimented with the opposite. I'm beginning to like gold and yellows. Angela...See MoreCome for a walk around my Garden on a Foggy Morning
Comments (8)Thanks everyone and what a warm day it turned out yesterday after all that fog it got to 31degs. I love the damp foggy mornings also not that we get many here. Dee the garden is just about finished now though I did make a new bed for my Gerbera a few weeks back and I am thinking of another Rose bed but no more roses just giving them more space. We got 1200 used pavers given to us on Tuesday ( exchanged for hard yakka ) so I can see a few new raised beds getting made for extra vegies.. Hi Macbirch...I have a lot of Gerbera's now and those doubles are so beautiful and last a long time in the vase. Marion do you get Misty morning's like this..How is that packing going... Dear Rosalie::: No I have not mastered it yet..though I am trying hard between library books and video's and all those camera forums on the Internet...Today being a special day for me we are going into the big smoke to my favourite toy shop and Tony is going to buy me either another memory card two big ones are not enough for me or maybe a filter ??? Then there is that book shop, O decisions decisions but I will come back with something. Sorry I dont know the name of the Plumbago as I found it in a pile of rubbish when we bought this block it is not a really bright blue......Cheers...MM....See MoreEarly morning in the garden...
Comments (41)Hey, Jon when you get to the main board listing all the threads right above that is “start a discussion”... your video is lovely but way too fast as I like to linger on each photo. Everything looks fantastic, I love the Cha Chas and Sagaes etc...cant wait to see it all in its own thread. It took me a bit by surprise to locate it - Houzz has changed things up a wee bit....See More
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3 years agoI get to stroll through the woods several times a day. Rain, snow, sunshine, Summer Fall, Winter Spring, not feeling well, too bad......no excuses. I love it.
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