sunflowers
- Thread starter smkie
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i had to stand on a chair to get close enuff, i bought four rolls of better film for tomorrow (i will take the dog's fourth pics) and can finish taking the rest of the sunflowers, i have some that are so dark they are almost black. I planted 40 but somebody or something came by and broke a few at the base so i won't know what they would have been. I have some that are 12 feet tall now. I think i would lose my mind if i didn't have a garden to go out and see that i am still me no matter how stressful my life is, i still have this, and i can still make this happen,...it helps.
you ought to see my gourd vines..hehehehe they have gone up the tree now and are sailing higher and higher, i think of them as my jack in the beanstalk, and i have a tomato that fits on both my palms and hasn't started to ripen yet, it is a beefstake beefmaster..if all goes well i will give it to my big brother. He asks me all the time how my maters are doing. funny thing i planted 15 and i don't even eat them..but Hyia adores her maters and checks them every time she comes over. i gave her an elephat ear bulb this spring and let her plant it, i bought it at the lawn and garden show, it was a HUGE bulb. now each leaf is bigger then the last and she should be able to stand under it by the end of summer..i got a pic..there is a walnut leaf in the middle for scale now. I give it a quick scan.
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my son was my garden buddy until he grew up and got bored with me, now he is taking a bit of interest, at least he seems to notice now what he didn't a few years ago..Hyia seems to like it, so maybe she will be my garden buddy for the next few years anyway. IT is a lot more fun when you have someone to share the process with. Her elephant ear bulb was the size of a cannon ball. We called it her giant seed. I told her it would be the biggest seed she would ever see.
doesn't cost much if you stay out of the nurseries and buy seeds..having friends that garden is nice because you can swap plants...dirt is cheap, sun is free and if you mulch you don't have to water much..you can learn a little more each year and when u get to be an older woman..i am not old yet your knowledge starts to pay off..my most favorite seeds of all are 10 cents a pac and if i buy them at the end of the season and refridgerate them over the winter, i get them for a penny each. CAn't go wrong with a hobby like that if you like to see little things grow big and be reminded of what this good earth is all about. Cheaper then a gym too and i bet by the time i weed water, and dig i have done as much as a yoga workout. My little trees are my favorites. The bummer is i know no one now that shares the same passion. Jim did, and i missed him greatly this spring, and every spring since he died.
if you do, start small and simple, make it close enuff that you can get water to it easily enuff. even a container garden is fun. Most people try to do too much from the very beginning and get overwhelmed. I don't know if you saw my thread about stealing my own plants back from the bad landlord, but i felt like i was bringing my old friends back home. It helped that the irises were ones that Jim dug up for me when we found them out in the country on the easement, and the ones that Grandma Kim gave me 20 years ago. i plant four oclocks because my grandmother showed me how they opened up in the late afternoon and how lovely they smelled when i was about four yrs old, one of the few memories i have of her. My trees are the easiest because they sleep in the winter, i only have to water them if it doesn't rain or snow for 10 days or more, and get to trim them..they don't look like much the first year or so, but now after 5 -12 years..they are my pals too. it never gets old to me to stick a seed in dirt, an object so tiny that has so much locked up inside, and then see the "babies" come up..and within 2 months tower over my head. To me it is a celebration of everything i love, art, life, colour, and i love being a part of this. Tiny miracles to remind me what my life is all about...