After thinking about the post all day, I decided that it really sounded too whiny. I needed a different approach. Something with pictures. Little bit more lighthearted.
I am not much of a gardener. I love planting and watching my plants to grow. I even happily water them when the need arises, but everything else feels extraterrestrial and not part of my world.
I have not really sure what has happened to my garden. There seems to be something wild growing in place of the flowers that I have yet to plant. I am wondering if wicked witch of gardens paid me a visit to see how I would react?
Then I walk around the corner, and I see this. Did I plant something last year that I can't recall? Is this supposed to look like this? I am not sure......I guess I will have to wait for the annual visit from my good garden fairy. She sent me an e-mail that she is planning to visit this week--weather allowing. I will have to have patience and maybe a few dollars saved up for plant replacement. I am sure that those of you who have the garden fairy gene in you will agree that new mulch would also be a good plan.
If your genotype includes the dominant garden fairy trait, please, feel free to offer your advice! My trait is truly a recessive and at the moment it is hiding behind the more dominant and aggressive writing trait.
I know that the "wicked garden fairy" visited me. I just look out and see all the lovely yellow flowers she planted where grass should be growing. My wife and I just visited our local garden shop today to buy a new shrub for in front of our house. I wonder how long it will take me to kill it---not because I want to but because my thumbs are anything but green.
ReplyDeleteOh, I had to smile at this post...my garden is a wreck, and I am in need of a garden fairy, too.
ReplyDeleteI love the phrase of wicked garden fairy....it is likely to be "kin" to the wretched-weeds that multiply with wild abandon in my garden. We spent Sunday laying down 3 inches of mulch but the wild and crazy weeks poked through in days!
ReplyDeleteHa! Love the 'garden fairy' she seems to visit me, but not every year, this year I feel lucky. Also, I am motivated to produce veggies, my kids love spinach and chard of all things.
ReplyDeleteWorking in my landscape is on my list for this week. I received a couple of plants from students and they are close to death! One was begging me for water as I carried in groceries tonight. Oh well.....
ReplyDeleteI love how you used green to change the whine to gold. I am quite sure, though, that your original post was not nearly as whiny as you suggest. Loved all of the green!
ReplyDeleteFortunately, I married a planting person. He tends to all things of the soil, for that I count my lucky stars. Winter was hard on so many plants this year. We've had to replace quite a few. Soon your garden will be awash in blooms.
ReplyDeleteLove the garden fairy -- it definitely put a little fun into your post! (When you see the garden fairy, can you send her my way? My dad might BE the garden fairy, but I definitely didn't inherit any of his prowess!)
ReplyDeleteI like that in the middle of end of year craziness you took a humorous approach to this gardening post. There is nothing funny in my gardening life - it is simply non-existent (the garden and the skills.)
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