Welcome to one of my Connecticut, zone 6a, gardens on this mid-September day. Today, being the 15th of the month, is when Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day and people all over the world get to share and enjoy the garden glory of others.
I suspect the personal gardens of some garden designers are always well-balanced, well-planted, well-weeded, and picture perfect. I'm not in this group. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with some of the planting designs I've implemented around my house.
Yesterday, September 1, would have been Gardening Oops - GOOPs - Day at joene's garden but with power coming from a generator, no cable, no phone, and no Internet September's GOOPs could not happen. I'm writing this post from my son's house ... his power returned last night.
All predictions have hurricane Irene hitting Connecticut sometime after midnight Saturday. The past few days have been filled with preparations of one sort or another. Of course, we stored away outdoor furniture, wind chimes, the gas grill, and garden ornamentation that would blow in high winds, tools, and the many potted plants around the house. Some plants went into the garage, some went under the deck, and some came inside. We moved the biggest potted plants against a retaining wall and hope this will give them some protection or at least keep them from blowing around. It's hard to predict what winds up to 75 mph will do to such things.
Sometimes colors and interest in the garden are provided by the smallest of creatures. It's easy to miss these tiny wonders of nature unless you take time to really look at the life that occurs in the tight and smaller spaces of a garden that has never been inundated by herbicides and pesticides. The longer my gardens are in place, the more I find these everyday, but spectacular, creatures. For this post, photos speak louder than words.
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