Bee Lavender

journal

Year: 2015

  • danger

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    The upside of having a mature wild garden: a beautiful profusion of blooms every day. The downside of having a mature wild garden: sometimes it harbors danger. In this instance, a bumper crop of poison ivy.

    The infestation was so bad we had to call in the experts. Men in hazmat suits spent an entire day digging out each plant by the root. Which incidentally means we’ve lost about half of the healthy garden. Oh well; needs must.

  • garden

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    Something new blooms every day! I don’t know if David planted these, or if the garden is a legacy of the ladies who lived here previously. I don’t even know what most of the plants are. But it is quite a spectacle.