Hello friends, we made it to a fresh year!
2020 was a lesson in shifting expectations and stepping away from plans for the greater good. I’m sorry I haven’t written and posted pictures during the odd months of this past year.
As an update I am loving my new home and making our nest as cozy and efficient as possible. Our homes and the people and animals in them were everything in 2020. I work from home every day communicating with colleagues from all over the world via the magic of the internet. I guess that has become as necessary to me as electricity!
This year gardening provided me a reprieve from the computer and chair. I could go outside and dig around and grow something beautiful to share with others. I picked many buckets of beauties to bring into nursing homes to use however they wished. I never entered past the vestibules for safety reasons in this time of COVID but received messages of thanks and many ooh’s and aah’s when residents were able to sit outside and observe me dropping the buckets.
I also worked with a local grower who started some transplants for me, that has never been my forte. Years past, I would enthusiastically plant and then the little seedlings would eventually wither. Smarter to have a pro work her magic and provide me with strong healthy starter plants.
For the 2020 flower season I had tall snapdragons (Fishhook and Madame Butterfly), zinnia’s (Bennaries Giant and Limelight), Sunflowers (so many varieties), gladiola‘s, cosmo’s, dahlia’s and amaranth. I tried celosia and lisianthus but these did not really produce for me. The snaps produced all season long, the zinnias started late summer, sunflowers were big show stopping beauties in lemon, gold, green and even a dark burgundy. The dahlia’s really didn’t do much for me, they bloomed really late, even though they were jump started in April and kept in the basement – I won’t do that again but hey, now I know.
There! Now I have gotten my writing wheels greased and plan to post an update more often.
