remember the little pod on my brug? Well I just had to show you what a beauty she is. The first few days she was a pale yellow, as the days go by her scent gets stronger and her color gets deeper. She is almost orange.
Lets review her transformation shall we?
I am just a pod
Almost a flower
I have arrived !
My frilly yellow skirt
I am changing colors
notice the curly tenticals off the skirt.. I just love brugs
Nothing to say just pictures
School is getting much closer to starting now, 4 days to be exact! It is a good thing because I think the kids are getting bored, as you can see what they have done to poor murphy
We are finally getting our power lines buried! They were hanging so low on the side deck, that we never felt safe to use it.
Two more wonderful things happened around the house today one being that my lotus in the front lily pond bloomed yippeeee. I wait all summer for my 1or 2 blooms to arrive. The first day the bloom is pink and the second day it is yellow, then is sadly dies. Such a beautiful flower to last only 2 days.
The second wonderful surprise is the new little bud on my Brugmansia. Brugmansia’s ( brug for short) are a tropical tree. In my zone I am unable to keep them in the ground all year due to our cold winters. I plant them in pots so that I am able to bring them into the basement and allow them to go dormant for the winter. In some cases you can keep them under grow lights to grow the first year. I planted all new seedlings this year and did not expect to get a bloom since they usually take at least 2 summers to get establish, so this was a treat to see a bud the first year. If you have not smelled a brugmansia bloom, you are really missing out, It is what I would imagine Heaven to smell like…
the little pod is on the right of the plant, it almost touches the chair. Stay tuned for a picture of the first bloom. I mixed all the colors up so i can not be sure what color the bloom will be. My fingers are crossed that it will be PINK!
DINNER! One night i watched this little guy eat over a dozen june bugs
Cassie likes frogs too But not the same way
Tree frogs are one of my favorites
Thunderstorms are one of my favorite parts of spring, the other favorite part is my flowers. Things are finally starting to fill in, I love the burst of color when I open the front door in the morning. Most people know that I love to spend time in my gardens weeding and grooming my yard. Most of the time, I find it VERY relaxing, it gives me time to reflect on things in my life. Over the years I have worked out many issues in my life in the garden. Sometimes my flowers were the only ones that knew my REAL feelings.
Oddly enough there were times when I went out to work in my gardens, and the things that were bugging me the most always seemed to come to mind. Some years, my gardens were splendid and everything seemed to flourish and other years it looked so-so. I started to pay more attention to this and realized there were times I was all but choking my poor flower babies because I was angry and upset about something, no wonder there were plants that never made it, may they all rest in peace among the flowers in heaven. This year was a BIG year of weeding in my life, I tended to the things and people (person) that were hurtful to me in my life and you know what, my flowers have never looked better.
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