A Gift from the Garden

 

 

Wordless Wednesday

Photo is copyright 2011-2013 Carol Steel

Gardening and Weeding

I've not written on my blog this week.  I've busied myself with other writing and with working in my garden.  Well really, working on the weeding.

This house came with overgrown gardens.  Boy, were they overgrown.  We've struggled with taming them and have now worked out a truce of sorts, where we weed until we're tired out and then we sit around admiring what we've accomplished and drink a glass of wine. 

Taming them is work requiring a bulldozer. 

It's good to have a garden that demands we rest in between attacks on the weeds.   We've learned to enjoy them more because we can relax and pace ourselves and can accept that our gardens are just wild old things.

Perhaps we are becoming wiser or perhaps we simply like sitting on the porch with a glass of wine...

Peony

Peony

longest living

showiest

hardiest of all perennials.

These photos are not mine; they are my sister's.  These peonies are magnificent and bloom

each year in their garden by the back door.  They are worth a visit.