Peonies
Bluebird
The summer garden drama begins. My onions are looking stellar. The potatoes are full leafy bushes and the tumbler is full of foreseen compost. Our salad material is ever producing from shades of maroon to lime green. The tomatoes are crying for warmth. Something is eating my bush beans just as they poke their little heads out of the soil. How brutal! The green and yellow pole beans are beginning their ascent, but the purple pole beans- where are they?
In anticipation of the peonies I am delighting in their orbs on stretching necks. As I have always half believed, the ants are busy working at cracking open the tight buds. Now I know they are actually indulging themselves on the sweet nectar being extruded from these buds. I am not the only one getting enjoyment from these lovely plants. With an over abundance of lavender and green right now, I am ready for my poppies to burst open and the roses to be covered in blossoms, but of course there is no reason to rush this luscious season. Please go slow I tell myself, my children, my garden, and time. I throw in a few more seeds, pluck unwanted weeds and turn the compost.
One last note- If you remember in a recent prattle my stick and grapevine trellis project, I want to comment on an added perk. After its success I made a bean teepee. It seems to me the blue birds find it to be a perfect perch. I catch them surveying the land there often. In fact there seems to be many more birds in the garden, now that there are high sticks where they can alight out of reach of our treacherous cat.
