When we got back from our five-day trip to Colorado, the flowers that had been on the table were wilted and sad-looking. I was quite busy getting dinner and unloading the car, but I made sure to dispose of those sad flowers and find a couple of lilies to put on the table before we sat down to eat.
Simple, but at least not wilted.
Later in the week, I managed something a bit more involved.
We're waiting on the sunflowers. In the meantime, I mostly have a lot of clover and grasses.
These flowers I had on the big bookcase in our living room.
The ornamental sage is starting to bloom, yay!
I actually grabbed that vase and brought it with me to church to put it on the altar by the lectern. I figured it might as well decorate the church during Mass and then I could just bring it home again. There are no other services at our church during the week, so there would be no point in leaving it there.
The hollyhocks in the garden are blooming profusely, despite being extensively damaged by the grasshoppers.
Very cheery, as long as you don't look too closely and see the holes in the flowers and the stripped greenery.
The grasshoppers continue to ravage the garden. They target weird things. Things I didn't even think were edible. Like rhubarb leaves, which are supposed to be toxic.
Obviously not toxic to grasshoppers.
They also ate all the leaves on the garlic plants, of all things. Luckily, the plants were pretty much done growing, so I just dug them all up.
They got to a pretty good size.
The grasshoppers did at least provide some entertainment for Poppy and her friends, who spent some time running through a field to watch the thousands of grasshoppers fly ahead of them.
These are some easily entertained kids.
The beet that is going to seed continues to develop. I discovered as I was bent over weeding around it that the beet seeds have a very sweet smell.
If this actually sets viable seeds, I'm going to have a LOT of beet seeds for next year.
Or maybe the grasshoppers will eat all the beet seeds. We'll just have to wait and see.
4 comments:
Your spectacular beet reminded me that I have a couple of kohlrabi plants that over-wintered and have a huge growth of seeds--which I guess I can harvest for next year's planting--it would be enough for a field of kohlrabi--which I have just learned is popular in Kashmiri cuisine. Go figure.
The sage and hollyhocks are beautiful! Do you see/get hummingbirds there?
Tricia
Or bees?
Yup! Some people put up the feeders for them, but I don't really like to encourage them around the house. They're pretty aggressive. :-) We have bees, too. Insects of all kinds about because we live in the middle of rangeland, which means no pesticides are used.
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