The Garden
I used to love gardening. I spent hours pouring over books and magazines, planning which plants I was going to buy and where I would place them. That was at our last house. We moved here shortly after Mikey was born and occasionally pull the weeds.
At this house, we don’t garden much. Really, we don’t leave the house. We spend our time indoors or running errands, and for the life of me I couldn’t remember what prompted this change as I rattled off the flowers in my sister-in-law’s wedding reception table arrangements.
“You certainly know your flowers,” said the florist, a family friend.
“I used to garden a lot,” I responded.
I decided to get back into gardening when we returned from Florida. I bought three house plants (I used to have dozens) and a few packets of wild flower seed for around the large Chinese Elm in the backyard. I even bought one of those fancy hose attachments, the kind for watering potted plants and beds that gives you that picturesque spray of water.
Yesterday the boys and I planted the seeds around the tree. I’m excited to see if they germinate and bloom. Nicholas ran around the yard, Mikey did his homework on a picnic bench, and I watered the new bed of flowers, the soft, gentle spray from my new hose attachment just what I needed to remind me to slow down and get back to living.
I should do this more often, I thought. I unscrewed the hose attachment with some difficultly as I wondered why on earth we stopped gardening and taking care of the yard. Then the attachment popped off and out from the hose shot a train track and 8 plastic watercolor paintbrushes.
And I thought, oh yeah. That’s why.
Ha ha!!! Nico?? How do you find info on gardening in your area? South Texas is a very difficult place to garden (flower or food) and I would like to try but don’t have $$ and time to waste planting the wrong things. KWim?? Oh, and don’t say to go to the nursery and talk to them. I wouldn’t be allowed back after I took Haley there.
Oh, but it made for such a wonderfully colorful photo op! So nice…
Jules,
Hilarious! Who do you think the culprit was?
Cara,
I empathize with you. I live in N. Texas but am not native. I’ve wasted tons of money on plant mistakes. If you ever do want to garden, find a gardening book written by someone who actually lives in your area. Or at least lives in Texas. Some of the books I have cover S. Texas. Let me know and I’ll send you the links.
This has Nico written all over it!!!
Jules, oh my gawd that is so funny, the things stuffed in the garden hose. Yes, I used to garden hours and hours a day before we sold our house and I also miss it alot, now we have someone here every Monday doing the yard, and I have to ask them to leave some for me, lol. We we are now the company does all the gardening. Have a great day.
ahahaha! That’s so funny, Jules. I just started planting flowers this year. My mom gave me some sweet pea seeds and helped me plant them in the little 2-foot x 8-foot beds along our patio. Now they are in full bloom, and I have the flowers all around the house. I’m hooked. What kind of flowers did you plant?
This makes me laugh!
that is damn funny!
I kept looking at the picture with the paint brushes on the ground wondering what that was all about…too funny!!
Our house is an ongoing work in progress, if we had lots and lots of money it would be done but what fun would that be right? ok, don’t answer that! I just posted some pics of our almost free garden.
Good luck with yours!
Larissa–I have no idea! It was just a bag of wild flower seed and fragrant flower seed. Well, I guess I should say that I recognized the names but can’t remember them now…and I tossed the bags.
65th Avenue–Actually, I was at your blog today before you commented and made a note to check Craigslist for flowers!