![]() Something else ate all of the onions under the ground. It got to the point where the squirrels took a bite out of every zucchini and pumpkin I grew. ![]() But, apparently word got out in the animal and bug world that yummy things were in there, so it turned into be a private restaurant for the squirrels and the slugs. For the first few years, I concentrated on it and veggies grew really well. We put in a picket fence gate with an arbor over it. ![]() It is in a separate section of our garden and is surrounded by a chicken wire fence that I train vines on. dAhub helped me plan it years and years ago. And the fig tree is covered with baby figs–maybe we will be able to get some before the squirrels help themselves.īut, I used to keep a vegetable garden each year. It was quite traumatic for me and for the bird. I am reluctant to do this because the one year I did covered them, a baby bird got stuck in the netting and it took forever to get him out. I need to covered them with netting or something. My blueberry bushes produced quite well but, as usual, the wild birds got all of the berries. And the golden and red raspberries are going crazy–they are just about the easiest plants to grow here. And my pear tree, which has four different types of pears finally produced a pear. They are only about 3 feet tall (they are truly dwarf trees), but they are so covered with apples that they are bent over to the ground. In fact, our dwarf apple trees are covered with apples. This has been mostly OK for the several fruit trees and berry bushes that do their thing without much input from me. The past few years I have been busy with book stuff and I kind of ignored the garden. I made a promise to myself this summer that I would spend at least a little time each day out in our garden. Girlfriend and I sit out on the porch in the later afternoons and evenings and read, and we can’t get enough of the scent. And I put the pot on our front porch so we can smell them as we enter the house. Anyway, I bought the plant–it has been blooming like crazy all summer. Our wedding theme was “English Country Garden” mixed with Alice in Wonderland, so the idea worked really well. The florist said she got such a kick out of designing each corsage/boutonniere from of all of the different flowers. It was so fun to see everyone wearing their their favorites. And when dAhub and I got married, we ordered a corsage or boutonniere of their favorite flower for each of our family members. Of course, when I went to my high school prom, my corsage was a gardenia, much to my mom’s delight. ![]() I love gardenias and they hold a special place in my heart because they were my mom’s favorite flower. ![]()
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