1. When the world wearies…
This morning, Lorene of Garden Rant fame, wrote about letting her plants speak for themselves, in which she posted just photos and names of the plants in her garden. She led with this wonderful quote from Minnie Aumonier.
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden.
Seems particularly true today.
2. Passiflora on our doorstep…
Years ago a wild Yellow Passion Vine popped up in the front yard. Vines do that from time to time — Mother Nature testing the waters. Many are pokey, but this darling had no thorns, and I somehow knew it to be a native larval host.
I built a trellis. Dug up the sprout and transplanted it. Now it reliably emerges afresh every spring.
You might notice that it thins out a bit at the top. Indeed
That would be due to this culprit
Last year, they gnawed the vine to the ground, leaving nothing on the trellis, which made us sad. Yet from that comes this
whence comes this
This year the lizards seem to be keeping last year’s caterpillars devastation in check and the passionate vine now has progeny of its own
When the world wearies, there is sometimes nothing but the garden.