Almost gone
Yeah, it's almost gone
Where will we be
When the summer's gone?
-------The Doors
Such a busy, intolerably hot summer! Just five minutes in the yard tending to my plants, and my mascara is running down my face! Heat indexes of 110 do not encourage gardening or other outdoor activities. I refuse to water my plants every day in this torrid heat, especially those down the hill of my front yard surrounding the mailbox. I had to figure out another strategy to highlight my yard with color.
So I purchased gorgeous orange SILK poufy carnation bunches and jammed those plastic stems in the soil. The azaleas and other green leafy plants provided a stunning contrast to those perfectly- uniform flowers. Several weeks later I noted a commendation for prettiest mailbox in our subdivision newsletter [600 homes] for our address. Merveilleux!
I drove back to Garden Ridge the next day to purchase varying autumn hues of more SILK flowers-bronze, gold, yellow, chestnut. I jammed bunches and bunches of silk flower combinations in two large shopping carts. The check-out lady asked if I was a decorator. I told her I am a horticulturist experimenting with growing fake flowers. Her expression was priceless.
These colorful fakes I planted in the garden boxes on the left side of our property, along our steep driveway, and surrounding the back of our one acre lot. I stuck ruffly SILK purple gardenias alongside my statue of the Blessed Virgin in the front yard. I did plant Knock Out roses there earlier this summer, but they look tattered. I was all over this phenomenon wondering if anyone suspected my equivocation. My handyman asked what fertilizer I used. My husband said all my hard work with my plants was finally paying off.
I never planned to deceive anyone. My priority has always been to create beautiful surroundings. With my fall planting accomplished, I shall now have more time for reading.
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