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Will This Be a Luckier Year?
... or at least "normal"? Three summers ago we started our garden with wonderful intentions. That first year was designing and building flower beds, planting trees and perennials, and basically turning a crabgrass berm and a stretch of grass into a garden. Year One went well and all of the above and more was accomplished.
Two summers ago, or Year Two, started well. The perennials all came back, every tree we had planted returned greener than ever, our raised (for drainage) design tomato garden took off like bats out of hell ... then the hail storm hit with a vengeance, stripping every plant of every leaf, killing every annual, every tomato, everything! Scrap Year Two ...
Year Three started off just as well as Year Two. Then on the July 1st weekend I started to lose my sight. Six operations and five months of complete immobilization
later it was November and frost. Scrap Year Three ...
So here we are in Year Four. We need something really, really different ... something memorable that we can take pictures of and make up for two bad years.
Yesterday it hit me ... why not ... the Year of the Sunflower???
There are so many varieties and if there is one thing sunflowers do is make me smile. Big Time!
So off to the garden centre I went today and picked up six packs of sunflower seeds. There are ideas floating in my head on an overall design. Let's see what happens!
There will also be our regular perennials plus some annuals for contrast and colour.
So here we go. Fasten our seat belts. Let's cross our fingers and hope we get through a full summer of gardening!!!!!