I am pleased to see that the container that Roger planted - his first attempt at planting and combining - is flourishing, as is the one I put together. I have never been particularly successful with container gardening - I'm too forgetful about watering - but we have had enough rain, and I have gotten smarter about choosing hardier plants, and they all look great this year. Maybe it's the new pots - American Designer Pottery, which looks like slate or terra cotta - until you lift them. They are practically weightless, and made it possible for me to consider potting up some things that I would never be able to bring in for winter in a normal pot. The best part is - the pot matches the garden furniture - pure serendipity like so much in the garden!
So I contemplate my small wonders and Roger settles down to a light doze in the sunshine. It seems to have been an eventful walk, and a tiring one for one only 5 days past major surgery. I let him rest - after all, we haven't even made it through half the yard, and there are many more wonders to behold. Just wait until I show him the new little frogs - three of them, each on their personal lily pad in the big pond. Or the moss that has finally established itself on the cobblestone path that wends its way around the big pond - or the nest with three hungry baby robins on the top rail inside the gazebo.
Too many wonders to take in on one short walk - enough wonder to make one feel pleasantly tired and happy and very lucky to be alive and in the garden.
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