Summer is Officially Here

An Imperfect Garden

Every summer our garden seems to go its own way. It never quiet confirms to the image of the perfect garden in our imagination.

Despite "falling short" and sustaining multiple deer attacks, it always manages to offer up patches of beauty. It's never the big beautiful manicured garden featured in magazines, but if you look closely, it is beautifully imperfect.

Monday Inspiration: A Little Patch of Our Garden

Monday always requires more effort on my part. Leaving the weekend behind is hard, especially knowing I may be working this upcoming Saturday and Sunday.

This weekend we bought some plants for the garden, but the threat of really cold weather kept us from planting them. So the garden's progress is on hold for now and I'll have to be content with this little patch in our rock garden that's in bloom.

Our Daffodils

Thank goodness deer don't have an appetite for daffodils. Our bulbs are up and I'm already planning to plant more in the fall. Gobs more. I'm even thinking of going outside our garden beds into the lawn near our trees. I love spotting daffodils growing in odd places like the side of a road, by old train tracks or at the edge of a wood.

We picked a few of our own for our kitchen table and I have to say I'm really amazed at how gorgeous the colors are and how a few flowers in a vase can be so beautiful.