A Morning Glory Morning

My very first morning glory bloom! What a thrill. I didn't think I'd get a bloom until next year. It's growing well, climbing, and now the first bloom! I've so admired seeing morning glories as I drove back and forth to work. "Someday I'm going to have one!" I said. Now I do.

I also snapped the dahlia flowers. They're just tiny little blooms but so pretty. I especially like the yellow one below. And the bright and happy marigolds are such a joy to look at. They seem to be inviting everyone in. Attached a little further down.

Most everything I bought is doing well. My sister-in-law Bobbie shared a little saying with me about perennials: "First year they sleep; second year they creep, third year they leap!"

With going back and forth each day to Rockville, I haven't had time to pull up the grass around the extended end of the garden. There's a lovely anise hyssop, oriental fountain grass, black-eyes susan and hydrangia. Jerry purchased some pine bark, laid down some plastic around the plants, and covered it with the bark. It looks real nice and now I don't have to pull up the grass!

We took down another huge shrub on the other side of the driveway, across from the garden. Can you believe it, I'm going to create another garden next spring!

Here's an updated snap of my garden. You can just see the purple from the anise hyssop top left. Arn't those yellow marigolds bright!

The other day I was admiring my very first sunflower bloom. I soon had camera in hand and was taking some snaps of it. After about 30 seconds I noticed a young buck standing on the hill watching me. I decided to get him in the snap. You can just make him out, standing straight and tall, about 10 o'clock off the bloom.

I've also been admiring other gardens between Mt. Airy and Rockville. Here are two I've enjoyed seeing!

"I come to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses, and the voice I hear, falling on my ear, the Son of God discloses." Now why did it take me 63 years to dig my hands in dirt! I've surely missed some amazing joy through the years. I'm relishing it now!