Wordless Wednesday (Floral Edition)

(It has been nearly a week since I last posted. I am hanging my head in shame.)

I love it when the moon is still showing in the morning. Even when it's not full, it's beautiful; the sky lightening up, the moon framed by trees......

(My favorite of the colors I found today)

Then I discovered some beautiful morning glories growing in the area we recently had cleared. Since we will be keeping it mowed down, they won't be around long. So, I took some photos then pulled some up and transplanted them by the back deck. I'm hoping they take hold.

(My second favorite)

There were also some pretty white ones, but I couldn't get to those. But the blues were so nice on their own.

Good Morning Monday.

Mountain Wonderland

Mrs. Margaret Fuller of Little Switzerland was nice enough to allow me to take photos of her garden today. Here she is picking blue berries, which are caged to keep the birds from getting them all. (She would only let me take her picture if she was facing away from the camera.)

Mrs. Fuller has a beautiful vegetable garden, with some huge cabbage. I would love to get hold of some cabbages that size. This area is fenced and had a "guard" standing duty to ward off wayward rabbits and such.

Mrs. Fuller told me the names of some of her flowers, but alas, my memory isn't what it used to be. And, I forgot to bring a notebook along with me. Some names I know, but for the most part, I just "know what I like." Names or no, it doesn't really matter. What matters is the beautiful tableau of color...and the fact that they make you feel good when you see them.

And what a view.

My Garden?

Well, it may not count as a "real" garden, but here it is. My two tomato plants were planted at the same time, in approximately the same size containers and for some reason one just isn't doing too well. Funny thing is, it had the first tomato on it. Now, it's dying and the other is growing taller and getting some little flower buds. Go figure. The only difference in the two is the one in the blue container has some rotting leaves from a gutter cleaning mixed in with the soil. Next year, I'm mixing lots of rotting leaves in with every tomato plant I grow.



Then there is the old, out-of-date canister of wildflower seeds I found earlier this Spring. It was one of those you are supposed to just be able to sprinkle around and they grow. I bought it years ago, then forgot about it. When I stumbled across them this year, I decided what the heck. I put some soil in one of my containers and poured. Well, no flowers yet, but lots of green coming up.



And here, growing in a pot of soil that was just sitting on my deck...corn. Squirrel corn actually, from the dried cobs I put out for them. I'm going to dig up a small section of my yard and put them in the ground, just to see what happens.

And then there is Muffinhead, self-appointed guardian of my little "garden," such as it it. :-)