Garden Art is Everywhere
Oh for Pete’s sake anyhow! Here we are on Memorial Day and the high temp for the day is 52 degrees. We had rain overnight and the ground is too wet to do any one-arm poking around with a hoe for damage control on the new crop of weeds. I still had to do a walk through the yard and the gardens to check on any progress of perennials that may have come up.
Mother Nature and my garden art have
made for a great Memorial Day
This fence line between my neighbor and myself has been graced with lilacs. Luckily, they are on my side of the line and they are safe from pruning. Those that love to prune lilacs to conform to a specific shape loose out as the lilacs bloom on last previous year’s growth. I have a deep purple, a lavender and a white. The base of the trunks are twisted and gnarled with age but low and behold the blossoms are just beautiful as if they were new plants.
I do try to put out some garden art each year to enhance Mother Nature, and this year – quite accidentally – I knocked it out of the park. The green gazing ball made for a great backdrop of a rain-soak branch that bowed low and needed a resting stop for it’s blossoms.