Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Nip

One of the mosquito repellant plants is catnip. My efforts to grow this from seed failed utterly, repeatedly. So, I just got some. Brought it home in the bag. And marigolds. Got some pots cheap.

Eleanor knew there was catnip, although I only brought the bag in.



This causes some... upset.


Looks good, hope it works, without attracting too many neighborhood cats.



The upper pot has the ginger that started sprouting on the kitchen sill. When life unbidden strives, seems only reasonable to give it a pot to grow in.


Lavender is good too, but not close enough to help.


Some of the sunflowers will be the usual, some will be red. I can already tell which is which.



Tiny strawberry, lush red, so I plucked it, put it in my mouth. Real eternal, transcendental moment, stopped mid-step, I could only stand and savor.




5 comments:

Phil Plasma said...

Maybe next year I'll try sunflowers again. If I grow a profusion of them as you did, perhaps the middle ones will survive the squirrel onslaught.

the polish chick said...

love those transcendent moments.

keep me posted on the ginger, i'd be curious to hear if it grows.

Zhoen said...

Phil,
They seem to like growing where they have grown for a year or so. And LOTS of seeds seems to help.

pc,
The ginger has a bitty leaf now, so, still alive.

Rouchswalwe said...

Lovely! Looks like a garden of true delights. We just got some much-needed rain, but my Irises aren't thriving this year at all.

Nimble said...

When I was a kid in Rhode Island I walked through fields and could smell the wild strawberries before I saw them. Mmmm.