light green growth will appear on the
outside of the pom poms. For several weeks, the little tree looks like he’s
going wild. If you trim the pom poms at this stage, you will bruise the foliage
so you actually have to let them look a little weird for a bit. Once the leaves
turn hard and leathery, the pom pom is really to be trimmed. After that, I
weeded which is really just an excuse to look at everything and see what is
growing. The lilies will explode very soon (gwee!) The salvia is stunning in a
dark purple. This also reminds me that I had paired some of my side-yard salvia
with Dianthus barbatus Heart Attacks. I love the
dark purple- deep crimson red combination but my Heart Attacks
have disappeared! They’ve been there for about four years so I’m not sure what
happened to them. We have clay-based soil here but that never seemed to bother
them before. Hmmm.
In other somewhat scary news (because I simply do not have
space!!!), I decided to let one of our wedding pumpkins go back to nature last fall and
well, this morning I noticed that the weedy thing that I was getting ready to
pull away from the butterfly bush was a pumpkin leaf. Oops. Not sure what I’m
supposed to do about this except maybe guide it around the other plants in
hopes that it will survive. Wouldn’t that be neat?!? I took a picture of our
wedding carved pumpkin that we also put back into nature. I think it looks
pretty cool in a I’m-not-going-to-touch-that-mush kind of way.
Bike Garden at the train station |
After playing in the garden, I went walking for a
few hours around town and was able to see a few more of the
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the event is expected to draw close to half a million spectators to Richmond for about two weeks and attract a worldwide television audience of about 300 million. Someone from that crowd is probably going to seek out the place that calls itself the Center of the Universe.
Bike Garden in front of the library |
I like the bike gardens and skull of flowers! Hope the pumpkin plant makes it!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing! I was just gone for a week and came home to a magical transformation as my garden is in bloom! It makes a beautiful sanctuary, like yours.
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