Be aware of Mindfulness. Let go of thoughts with practiced breathing.
Keep fewer photographs. It takes me six times to get a well-focused shot. Delete the rest immediately.
Spend less time at the computer desk. Take a walk. Make tea. Sit elsewhere and read. Finish tasks.
Spend more time tidying. Clear away clutter and organize surroundings.
Offer fewer options. Milk or iced tea? Hot spiced tea or lemonade?
Never Complain. Never Explain.
Tuesday
Saturday
Twelve Plants I need to Use in New Ways in the Garden
This GH bed has a mass of white Lantana this year, no Pentas.
Alternanthera Rubiginosa is a great plant where a
large dark mass is needed.
It will choke out bermuda grass.
Agapanthus, chlorophytum, Purple Heart
Agapanthus bloomed in May, 2013.
A hard freeze in winter will kill the
tops like last winter and set them back.
I bought Agapanthus in 2007 and 2009.
In 2013 I borrowed seeds off a plant in Tallahassee
and finally had a white bloom in a pot this Spring.
I am going to pot up more plants in August.
Plants I sometimes take for granted:
Persian Shield and its winter blooms,
Tecoma stans' all summer blooms,
Pentas as butterfly magnet and Melampodium,
Loropetalum blooms twice: early spring, late summer.
Beds of Salvia Leucantha need renovating for a
show like this one.
Wax Begonia, what a bedding plant.
Ruellia elegans 'Katie' needs some Lemon Grass.
My variegated Liriope did not thrive.
When these bloom they remind that Begonias are
worth the trouble to haul them in for winter's keep.
Gulf Fritillary
Butterflies do not magically appear in Spring and last through fall. You may see some on early warm days and not see more for several weeks as new broods hatch. If there are host plants and nectar sources available, you may see various kinds at different times all through warm weather. A good example are Buckeyes. You might see a few in early spring and great waves of them in autumn when False Foxgloves bloom.
Gulf Fritillary on Lantana and on Porterweed.
The other butterflies I am seeing right now are numerous Pipevine Swallowtails, Dogface sulfurs and many tiny skippers. Once in a while I see a Red Spotted Purple hanging around for a few days.
What butterflies are you seeing during these hot summer days?
Tuesday
Devil's Food Cake Day, May 19
Our Beloved Tanky almost always had Devil's Food Cake for most occasions.
Devil's Food Cake Day cartoon by Sandra Boynton.
Friday
Daylily Seedling
Garden name "Meet My Sister"
Mary Pointevint let me pick seeds off her pretty daylilies.
She said she'd planted seeds and they turned out ugly.
This one turned out spectactular, I thought.
Saturday
HIppeastrum 'Minerva'
One bloomed in the garden last week. This week this one bloomed in the greenhouse.
I have 8 pots of seedlings that need 6" pots to bump them up. I hope to live long enough to finally see seedlings bloom. Planting the seeds is great fun but it takes years for a bloom to appear.
Sunday
Orange and Yellow Bring Sunshine to a Garden
We have had a long run of rainy weather. Bright blooms bring a sense of light to the garden.
Orange You Glad It's Friday?
California Poppy on a day when there was sun.
Eschscholzia californica on a cloudy day.
Flowering Pomegranate "Madame Legrelle' Punica
Gerbera Daisies in a purer red-orange.
These are seed-grown, nearer the species.
Nacogdoches, called 'Grandma's Yellow Rose' by TAMU
Julia Child is a tough cookie.
Sunny Knock Out
Season's first: Brocaded Gown daylily.
If I Could Grow only One Rose
Belinda this week
The rest of these are from May, 2014
Belinda's Dream
If I could have one more, it would be Julia Child.
Julia Child, 2014.
Easter Orchids
We used to wear corsages on Easter; hats and gloves too. I prefer my orchids in a pot.
Wednesday
Thursday
New Year 2015: Take Joy
My word for the New Year is Joy. Take Joy where you find it.
This Christmas Cactus waited for the New Year.
I find Joy inside the greenhouse and out in the vast fields.
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