June 08, 2018
Now that the Creeping Jenny is covered in bright yellow flowers it looks incredibly beautiful. It curves around the garden filling in all the unused places and giving a sense of permanence to the ever changing landscape. It's doing exactly what it's supposed to do. Covering the ground. Everywhere it grows I don't have to weed or mulch. It saves me a lot of time and effort..
Keeping it from encroaching on my planting areas is a small price to pay for the luxury of maintenance free areas. As for it's overrunning the pathway I now can just weed eat it down to the ground. I should probably just learn to walk on it but not stepping on plants is a hard habit to break. I can definitely stop hating it though..
June 09, 2018
I moved my garden chair down the pathway aways yesterday to get into the morning sun. I found myself sitting in front of a messy overgrown spot. I've walked by it everyday and just ignored it but sitting in front of it for awhile made me absorb it. I realized it was only messy because of the blackberry vines in the middle. After I removed them I had a beautiful little scene, worthy of a landscape artist with foresight. A moss covered rock surrounded by flowering creeping jenny, in front of bright orange poppy blossoms..
The taller blue colored love in a mist behind was in various stages of bloom while the pink hollyhocks behind hadn't started yet. The big burgundy colored plum tree contrasted with the bright yellow flowers of the candytuft bush. Behind them all the dark green grape vine curtain cut across the light blue sky. Just by removing the blackberry vines I created an evolving, summer long garden show. I think I should remove all the blackberry vines from the garden unless they are thornless and on a trellis..
June 10, 2018
June is the month you get to see baby bumblebees. They are so industrius that I saw one climb into a blackberry blossom that hadn't even opened this morning. The petals closed behind it like a photo booth. Like all young'uns, they tend to overdo it, so you can find them napping in the flowers mid morning. June is also when the madrone trees start shedding their leaves..
It seems contrary to the rest of nature but they are a successful species so they must know what they're doing. If your bush beans are a foot tall you can plant another row to double your harvest time, and if your corn is four inches tall, by all means plant another patch. You can never plant too much corn because it makes good barter..
