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A cool front came through on Friday night

Making Saturday a perfect gardening day.

Most of the day was in the 80’s

Not bad for late June.

So Coco and I spent the entire day

WEEDING

The thing about having record rains in May

Is that June brings lots of weeds.

I’m not complaining

We so needed the rain

As do many

Who have not been as blessed.

It’s just a simple fact

With rain

Comes weeds.

I don’t really mind weeding

Though I did get a bit tired of it

By Saturday night.

But weeding gives you

A “plants-eye” view of the garden

Since you are sitting or crawling along the ground.

It’s a very different viewpoint

Than walking through a garden.

A change of perspective

A paradigm shift

So here’s what I noticed

As I crawled amongst the weeds

I have some serious something going on

All through my garden.

It’s a white powdery film on

Dahlias

And Roses

And Euonymous

And who knows what else.

I’m guessing it’s moisture related.

I’ve been cutting back the affected areas

If possible

But that isn’t always the case.

I dislike spraying things on my garden

So I try to avoid that.

If you have any suggestions

Let me know.

There are also lots of those nasty

Little black worms.

They love to eat the leaves

Of Gloriosa Daisies

Purple Coneflowers

And Sunflowers.

Which is interesting

Since they all have prickly leaves.

They show up overnight

In mass

They will totally cover a leaf

And suck the life out of it.

Which makes it easy to gently pull off the leaf

And step on it till all are dead.

Gardening is such a gentile pastime!

But the view from the ground

Is not all weeds and bugs.

It’s also the vantage point

That gives you lovely little vignettes.

Purple Coneflowers are especially happy this year.

As are the Gloriosa Daisies.

The Oriental Lilies began to open this week.

Lacing the garden with their intoxicating scent.

It’s interesting.

Visitors to my garden

Never seem to notice the weeds.

They only see flowers.

Perspective

Gail

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