bgrow_gardens's Blog

Well not much new in the garden other than rain for a couple of days and being sick enough to lay me out for a couple of days in bed. On the up side all is looking better, the sun ventured out and I am feeling much better. I ventured out to feed and water the rabbits. Checked on the seedlings out there too. Nothing else has sprouted yet. Everything feels like it is in limbo-la la land for the moment.

The only faithful bloomer I have is still my pineapple sage which is monstrously huge. I just don't have the heart to whack it back. Basically it took me forever to find it locally!! Yeah it hangs out right by the gate of the front entrance so you rub/bump against it on the way in. Love the fragrance of this plant. Get a little smell of Hawaii every time  you go in and out of the gate love them pineapples.. However, on the other hand it does annoy DH since he BBQ's all year round outdoors. Said plant continuously bloom's it's head off from late July through now. Not too mention it also invades, and competes with his space for said BBQ. So a month or so ago I re-tied up the plant to keep it from wandering into the "BBQ area." Not to mention all the not so subtle comments of you oughta move, or whack that beast of a plant down....suggestions from my other half. Well said plant suddenly had my favorite little visitors. Hummingbird's of course. They won't touch the feeder, but they sure do like this plant. They finally discovered it this year of all things. It has been sitting there for about a year now. I lucked out well sorta (I was sick in bed.) I happen to hear loudly from the front yard (cause DH was BBQ'ing outdoors as usual) when all of a sudden there was a "hey honey you should see this!!" I guess said hummingbirds were sampling the tasty flowers and could care less about the BBQ, smoke, or DH cause they were out in force. Needless to say DH enjoyed the dinner show, and thought the unexpected dinner guests were pretty cool too. So needless to say I have not heard a whole lot of complaints about the pineapple sage for a while. Which is a good thing cause the plant is really happy where it is at and pretty much perpetually blooms for me. Much to the delight of everyone.