I am sipping hot tea on a quiet evening in January. It is time to take the golden poinsettia flowers off the Christmas tree and add the flower packets, miniature bird houses and feathered birds. It seems I have more time to post in the winter about the garden than I do in the summer.
I love it when friends divide their plants and pass them on to me. I spent much of the summer placing these plants and babying them through the dry months. I finally purchased a miniature lilac
bush and planted it in front of my kitchen window. I was dreaming of the aromatic joy I would one day experience. I have difficulty knowing where to plant things. Will it block the sun from other plants will it grow massive and block my view of the rest of the garden. I will have to move the Lilac Bush....but our dry summer makes it risky, I always have so much to water.
I have enjoyed the Morning Glories that take over the unwanted stump (pictured above). I found them coming into the garden and growing further down the garden fence, blocking the sun needed to grow the tomatoes. I will continue to pull out unwanted plants.
Life SHOULD be like a Respite Garden. Each day I live I enjoy positive thought. I engage people who are of like mind and spend minimal time with those who spill forth negativity. I enjoy ministering to people, but it is in preparation of meals, or reading to someone who can no longer read print. From time to time I will put on a luncheon for the ladies at my church. I came to the realization that I spend very little time sitting and enjoying my garden work(both floral and veggie garden). I come in to make dinner and find that I am always looking out the windows to see all that I have worked on. I will sit in my kitchen and just gaze on the beauty. This is where I find the RESPITE in my GARDEN.
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