Yesterday was a bit of a sad day but, yet, a grateful one. It was time to start putting my garden containers and plants to bed until next year. I do 90% of my growing in containers of all sizes. Even my precious fig tree and it's little offspring are in containers. It was actually my fig tree that caused the contemplative mood.....as I pulled the netting off it...netting to keep the birds and squirrels off its fruit......I noticed the leaves were starting to yellow from the last few cold nights. The fruit had been gone for about a week ..so, I was just starting to get it ready for winter. I was so surprised when I saw a little fig...about half size...way towards the center of the tree....it was ripe which was a miracle with our weather....my last little gift from this wonderful tree. It is on a movers dolly and I pull it in and out of my garage every nite in the spring...it is really babied...and this year I propagated a new one from it :-)
As I continued to pull up and remove the vegetable debris from the other containers, I was both sad and grateful at the same time. In the Spring, I can actually "feel" the energy these plants have and now as the season comes to an end, I could feel the let down...the lack of energy in them. I was grateful for all they have given me which I gladly shared with all my friends:-)
Growing things and especially propagating them is such a hopeful and joyful thing to do . Conifers of all types are my main interest...I have grown mugos from seed and arborvitae and, now, the fig and several other species. The biggest problem is I can not give them away...I just can not do it. So, I have had to cut down my efforts recently :-) ....Sometimes, I just think....what's another container to the sea of them I already have :-)
So, yesterday, I said to my wonderful garden, ....Good bye.....Thank You !.....See you next year :-)
"I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation." - Phyllis Theroux
“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece”
― Claude Monet
As I continued to pull up and remove the vegetable debris from the other containers, I was both sad and grateful at the same time. In the Spring, I can actually "feel" the energy these plants have and now as the season comes to an end, I could feel the let down...the lack of energy in them. I was grateful for all they have given me which I gladly shared with all my friends:-)
Growing things and especially propagating them is such a hopeful and joyful thing to do . Conifers of all types are my main interest...I have grown mugos from seed and arborvitae and, now, the fig and several other species. The biggest problem is I can not give them away...I just can not do it. So, I have had to cut down my efforts recently :-) ....Sometimes, I just think....what's another container to the sea of them I already have :-)
So, yesterday, I said to my wonderful garden, ....Good bye.....Thank You !.....See you next year :-)
"I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation." - Phyllis Theroux
“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece”
― Claude Monet
This is the Fig tree I mentioned above:-) Below is its offspring that I propagated this March. They require a lot of care but are well worth it...
This was one of most exciting projects...growing mugos from seed...these are the new mugos..not all seeds planted emerged...I learned this is how it is in nature also.....a lot of seeds drop but only a few make it ....they were very cute though:-) I found this to be a joyful and hopeful thing to do.....I love propagating plants :-)
These four are the result of the above planting...this will be their 3rd. winter . I will put them in a container of soil in the garage and "watch" them all winter....do you notice that each one is so different?...different sized also...different size needles and "look"...the only way to get the "same" look of mugo is by cuttings or as I call it "cloning"....I did that a few years ago and only got one result...it is very very difficult...that is why nurseries use seeds and when you go buy a mugo ...you have to look thru several as they are all different :-) ...Like these....and I ,think ,like people ....children from the same family are different...so are these mugos.....once they make it thru this winter, I think, their chances are really good....I care a lot about them and never tire of looking at or fussing about them :-)
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