Gardener, Gardener, Quite Contrary, How Doth Thy Garden Grow?
Thanks for asking. It doth grow very well indeed. So very well indeed that returning from a mere week away on vacation I hardly recognized the garden. It throve. There's my rationale for going out every morning after breakfast to poke around in the garden to espie the changes, the new life asserting itself literally overnight. I could hardly credit the amount of new growth evident in our gardens. So much so, that the first thing I did was walk about all the beds and borders in complete awe as soon as we arrived back home. Disbelievingly, admiringly, beside myself with appreciation of the garden's fecundity and outright determination.
Even the many garden pots filled with the annuals we so much admire and enjoy throughout the summer months were thriving, bursting with life and colour. We'd left the care of the pots to our very obliging next-door neighbour for whom I'm delighted to return the compliment when her family goes off on vacation. I knew things were in good hands. Even the seeds that I'd thrust into the hanging pots were well sprouted and ready to assume their place in the garden's order.
The climbing roses were aburst with bloom; the clematis vying with them for attention, and the honeysuckle ablaze with colour. The peonies were lifting their fragrantly heavy blooms for attention, the lilac just finishing off its duty for the year and sending its heavenly perfume right through the house on gentle breezes. Both rhododendrons were in bloom, and the bearded and the Siberian irises were vying with one another to garner my admiration. The heucheras were sending their lovely coral bells out into the world of the garden, and already many of the plantain lilies were sending up their flower heads.
The size of the apples - already - on the three apple trees. They're trying to outdo one another in production, or perhaps it's the plum tree they're trying to outdistance. If it's sheer numbers of fruits, then the plum tree has the slight edge, but the apple trees aren't slouches at all in abundance of fruit. I cannot believe the size of the tomato plant, double what it was when we left, and flowering in anticipation of bearing ripe red fruit. Even the lavender is in bloom.
How doth my garden grow? How kind of you to ask.
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, June 13, 2006
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