First of all I'd like to pay respect to all the Veterans and thank you for your service. You are all very much appreciated.
I have a couple of peanut butter trees in the garden and generally, when they bloom in mid-August the yard smelled like jasmin. But, for some reason, not this year - - - a total bummer since my garden is very sad. (above)
A couple of weeks ago a friend send me information on a popcorn flower. (above left) Members of my garden club sometimes bring in unusual plants. Lower left is a hanging cucumber tree. And one of our members has a mouse plant (right, which I think is kinda creepy because the "mice" look like slugs.) The most interesting unusual plant, or in this case, plants, is a chocolate garden one of my club members made. A chocolate garden has three types of plants: those with brown flowers, plants whose blooms smell like chocolate, and tomato plants with fruit that resembles chocolate-covered cherries.
It's surprising how many dark brown flowers there are: bachelor buttons, columbine, and cosmos are a few.
Most of the summer I slogged around the house avoiding my garden but now, naturally, when it is too cold to do any planting and weeding, gardening is sounding good. I guess I'll just look at seed catalogues and wait for spring.
Waiting for spring sounds good. My garden is mostly grass and roses. One of the bushes is still producing light red blooms. Will I have roses for Christmas this year. My dogwoood supposedly was to be 8 to 10 feet now stands at 50 plus. The leaves have turned maroon for the fall.
ReplyDeleteI had never heard of a chocolate garden, but the notion is intriguing. Thanks for sharing.
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