The garden grows!

🥫🍌🍊Groceries: Red wrote about doing groceries! Well, more about NOT doing them! I used to do groceries. When I became pregnant with Caitlin (1979), I could no longer tolerate the smell of coffee! The grocery store made me want to throw up. My first accountant husband took up the cause. As a single mom, in 1993, I had to do it all over again. Fast forward to 2005, when my second accountant husband JB retired, he took up the cause. I didn't really take it back! When he had surgery in 2014, I had to do it. No problem. He took it back from me when he recovered! COVID made things simpler. When we needed groceries I would do an online order. It was great. JB usually does it once a day, these days. 

Anyway, the garden. How glorious!

The birds out front have been amazing. Red-eyed vireos, and goldfinches in the horse chestnut tree. 

 

Across the highway, a lovely field of flowers, Dame's Rocket. I transplanted some, and they thrive.

I put the garbage out early Monday morning. There was a ribbon snake. They are beautiful snakes. Just a lovely colour. I went around behind it, to scare it out of the garage, but it was less than eager. I picked it up and put it into the planter. 

I found blonde Butch in the back. They are around infrequently. 

blonde butch June 10 from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

 

Picture it: the wild flowers are bladder campion. (I thought it was bladderwort!) I caught Bambi eating them. You can see how dry the lawn has been. Happily, we've had 22mm rain (25mm= 1") over the past two of days. What a relief.

 

She ran off when she saw me. Camera shy, perhaps! 

young doe from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Peonies! 

Poppies!

I don't remember these flowers. I took a photo of the lily buds because, well, we live in deer country! I think I might get lilies this year, though! the new fence seems to be working. 

The allium are safely growing inside the fence. In the background, the clematis are in bloom. 

This end of the garden has one hosta poking out from the fencing. Bambi can have this one! Hopefully, the one inside the fence will be safe. They love the hostas best!

We had front yard visitors, to make my point. The bucks are unusual in the front yard. They must be frequent visitors. 

2 bucks June 11 from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Chestnuts, Cedar waxwings and Dame's Rocket

The little chestnuts are growing!! Some drop off, as they aren't viable.

I noticed a pair of cedar waxwings in the Horse Chestnut tree. I grabbed a photo of the waxwing, knowing they are flighty, then took out my videocamera. They flew!

 They landed in the backyard later, on a serviceberry bush. This is good for a giggle. Little twerps! 

from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

At that point I put the zoom lens on. It really didn't help much!  

 

When I was a child, my mom and I would walk the road on Windsor Dr. where our cottage was located. She love the Fireweed plants that grew there. I noticed some of these plants across the highway, and brought some plants home. 

They grew well and Guinivere liked them.

On my Facebook friend's post, she named them Dame's Rocket, stating some people mistakenly call them Phlox. Well isn't it interesting to learn something new at age 65! All these years.

Phlox has 5 petals, this 4. Fireweed grows much taller!