It Goes By Many Names......

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Yes this guy or girl goes by many names… are you ready? …..Marmot,Monax,otcheck,monk,pasture pig, land beaver,pasture pig,ground squirrel,gopher,whistle pig,woodchuck, Groundhog….etc. My name for it is “#%<€£¥%}” Why you may ask? Because it’s sole purpose in my garden is to eliminate just one name in my garden and only one-ZINNIA! Just look at this…

I decided to do something I had never done before and that was to grow potted zinnias. I anticipated this all winter and when spring came I went to the GC and selected my packets of Zinnia seeds. I admired the pictures of the beautiful varieties of zinnias and had fantasies of how beautiful and lush these potted flowers would look as I placed the seeds into their pots. Now my garden bubble has burst thanks to #]#<€£¥!:aka groundhog:( All joking aside for I blame no hungry creature in my garden for trying to sustain itself in its very difficult struggle to stay alive. Last year it ate all my sweet potato vines and I should have checked to see if it liked zinnias before I started. By the way it is the most healthy looking groundhog I have ever seen and I will take some of the credit for that:) These guys truly hibernate for the winter and they are fattening themselves up with food in order to get through the hibernation. Sorry I don’t have any photos of it but as soon as I open the door it runs into the tunnel it made in the honeysuckle. But I do have some photos to show you of my quickly maturing cottage garden ala Hywel…

It is Sunday morning as I write this and I am now feeling a bit sleepy, time for a Sunday morning nap with a Debussy or maybe Ravel CD playing in the background and dream of what was only to be a dream anyway, my Zinnias…..move over Sadie my dear…..

ZZzzzzzzzz

Done with my nap…Stera mentioned that it must take a lot of watering to keep the pots moist and it does. I might add too that the water hose never goes into the garden since it will tip over pots and tear plants up. Since I need a length of hose about two hundred feet to do the job if I were going to do it that way and I won’t I devised a mobile watering can system that gives me just enough water to do the whole garden. I have a garden path that circles the entire garden finishing where I started of and the whole circle takes about 20 minutes if I refrain from removing weeds and insect pests along the way…here is a photo …

• 25 Jun, 2017
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