The Garden That Once Was

Well, here we go again. A few weeks ago, my lovely garden looked amazing.  I had stuff growing everywhere!

This morning….I committed the ultimate garden offense.

I did this.

The time had come. Wednesday our house begins to get packed, so I would potentially no longer have access to all my tools. Tomorrow the “to-do list” is so long, there was just no more that could be squeezed in. So this morning I dismantled my entire garden.

I went over and talked to my neighbor about taking all my potted plants, and in the process saw “Mrs. Q’s” beautiful flowers blooming. She left two weeks ago for GERMANY of all places…so she didn’t get to see the results of her work. I had told her I would take pictures and send them if her flowers bloomed before I left.

So I took these for her.

This one was my favorite. Absolutely stunning.

And after about 3 1/2 hours of work, this is what remains of my garden.

(You can see where I gave my next door neighbors the soil from the raised beds, so they could try and grow some grass on the hill back there.)

Sigh. At least we were able to enjoy most of the garden.