Observations from the Garden- A Gardener's Vacation
This entry was posted on 21 Oct 2006, 5:30 AM and is filed under Observations from the Garden.
Yesterday afternoon I took a vacation. Oh, I had the whole week off; spent last weekend at the Refuge talking to folks about using native plants and the rest of the week planting all the stuff I got at the nursery.
I'd gone out to Little Bend Nursery to borrow a few plants for my native plant demonstration and came home with a carload of beautiful grasses, vines, perennials and succulents. Add to that the seed I'd ordered and I had a few things to do!
Well, except for planting a few herbs I got it done and yesterday was about the less strenuous tidying up type chores and I had time to actually sit down in the garden and look around.
I was well rewarded for my efforts, the front garden was full of butterflies. Pipevine swallowtails, sleepy oranges, cloudless sulphurs, monarchs, gulf frittilaries, red admirals and unidentifiable skippers....wow! Finally, after six years of working on a wildlife garden I got my reward, sitting in the autumn sun surrounded by fluttering flying flowers. This is what I had been working for.
Who knows, maybe they are there all the time, while I'm at work earning more money for more plants and seeds. But, yesterday I sat down in the garden and was reminded of why I was working and digging, weeding and watering.
It was the perfect end to a gardener's vacation. Sometimes you just have to sit down and look around.
