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My gardens ...

Written by judisjunque on

From: thevintagehopechest.blogspot.com

have been totally neglected this year.

I usually bring home flats of annuals to mix in with all of my perennials. We get truck loads of mulch and carefully rake it on, taking care to not damage the new growth making it's way out of the ground. I'm usually out there each and every day, pulling weeds at first sight, watering thoroughly and photographing constantly.

Not this year ~ I only bought a few annuals to put in the front beds and haven't even put mulch down anywhere. Just so preoccupied with other things that seemed more important, the gardens have dropped to the bottom on the list of priorities. I've kept them somewhat free of weeds and I did get out and trim all the shrubery but that's about all that's been done.

Earlier in the season I was out in the front beds and pulling a few weeds that were beginning to come through the mulch and I saw a sprout of something that looked familiar. I knew it wasn't a weed, but just couldn't decide what it was. Well, I have done this before only to find a giant milkweed or some other type of weed growing that eventually needed to be yanked out. But this sprout just looked familiar so I left it alone.

As I continued to neglect my gardens, the little sprout got bigger and then this same type of sprout appeared in the garden on the other side of the driveway in nearly the same spot, as if I planted them. I kept telling DH that they were not weeds, but I just wasn't yet sure what they were. So as they keep growing, we are watching them and then they are a foot hight, the leaves are getting larger, then they are 2 feet tall and I finally knew what they were ....

And I was right!

Sunflowers!!

I didn't plant these but there they are ... one in each of my gardens as you enter the driveway, both in nearly the exact spot opposite each other. I'm calling them God's Garden Gifts to me ...

Actually, we have several bird feeders around and those darling little Chickadee's are always hiding seeds. They probably hid some in the rock walls around the gardens and they fell out and into the soil, but there has to be some divine intervention to have them placed so perfectly. As you can see they have already been nibbled at by Goldfinches!

Each time I leave or come back into the driveway, they bring a smile to my face and I don't feel so badly about neglecting my gardens this year.

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