Certain plants didn’t get the autumn memo

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bleeding heart, gardens, growing seasons, lilac, postaday2013

Believe or not but the nascent Bleeding Heart that was growing last week in my compost heap has grown into a mature plant, large and bushy and the lilac bush is still blooming in the interior of the bush while being surrounded by the outer dying branches. It is such a hoot, I am in constant admiration of the power that Mother Nature has within her grasp and shows us everyday. Normally I wouldn’t be that amazed but we have had several nights that have hovered around 39 degrees and these two plants don’t emerge for those kind of temperatures so to see them still thriving is seriously cool.

I’m curious to see what pops up next year at springtime in the compost heap, if I’ll get even more Bleeding Hearts and how the Lilac bush in the back will come back and if I will get two blooming seasons again. All of this makes me curious and already looking forward to next spring, it’s going to be a long winter, waiting for my curiosity to be appeased.

The fruits of my labor

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bleeding heart, dianthus, Gardening, postaday2012, vinca

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Now that we are solidly in May and the rain has let up, I’ve been back to working in the garden. The green shoots have become big enough so I now know which is a weed and which is a perennial that I had planted last year. The photos that have been uploaded are my little gardens that I have been cultivating for a few years now. Essentially, my goal from the start has been to create many small perennial gardens where I would eventually be able to just add some annual plants for additional color and that’s it. I’m still a ways from achieving it but I think that these pictures show some movement towards my goal. Between writing, gardening and cooking, I have found three passions that occupy my mind, my imagination, my need to move and create, and each of them provide me with ways of releasing stress and finding peace.