some interesting events in my garden

Nature and man made flowers hard to distinguish in this year curiosities in my garden.

I never did this mixing, but

the difficulties giving by the weather

made me to help with silk flowers.

In a little crack on the driveway

perhaps from a windblown seed

grew a little pine tree baby.

I got it into a pot and

being so grateful

grew a lot in a year!

Miracle in my garden.

I did not plant this flower, which is a petunia

with velvety dark purple color.
I used to water the pot of silk flowers

like they were real.

And one day it became real as this petunia

from a dormant seed emerged

between the silk flowers!
May be 2 years ago there were petunias in this pot

but through brutal cold winter some seeds

remained alive.

Amazing.

For some unknown reason

this year

my old oak trees

brought more acorns than ever before

The size is big

like they were hazelnuts




The amount is just bushel after bushel
cleaning them constantly
a never ending work
this year.
No need to feed squirrels.
Nature provides :)

IT'S RAINING

In these days at the end of September

after a stressful hot and dry

summer

these clouds

are very welcomed

They were lingering around

for days

until finally started to rain..
Hallelujah!
The heroes of the summer
a Yucca
and an
Ornamental Grass
also appreciate a cool steady rain
after all
they are still living
with water



In a food store I found
my funny friends:
the newly arrived
attraction: the Gourds.
They make me smile because they are just funny
in all kinds of shapes and colors


The more serious stuff:
for feeding the people
beautiful vegetables
are there
for a healthy diet





My favored are:
the Turnips!
I wish could find a recipe
what was for a most delicious meal
made with turnips.
I would love to post it here for you
but at this moment
I can not find it
but promise for later
I'll get it for posting. :-)

Found new LOVE

So is in Nature if you follow the rules:

When you get rejected,

may be even beaten up with nasty treatment:

You get up, dust yourself off

and look for new LOVE

because

" Who seeks will find"

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To understand what I am talking about is:

This year's

very bad treatment

of my beloved garden

with

unusual weather of heat and

drought!

:(((((((((((((((((((((((((:(

I got depressed as I saw my garden dieing in the heat

and the watering was no help

against the burning hot air.

Than I went in the evenings as the Sun was setting down

in this suburb, where I live.

( I gave up my Sun worship for this Summer.)

I looked and saw what is happening

outside of my territory :(

Mostly was heart breaking landscape:(

but I found plants with no sign

of wilting or any suffering :)))

I found my new Love:

the ORNAMENTAL GRASSES

in many places around stores and banks

where professional gardeners planted with

knowledge of counting

on this kind of possibility

the killer heat and drought :-((((((

I saw them before,

but never paid much attention.

My New Love for the

ORNAMENTAL GRASSES

is burning now

with all my curiosity while

searching for the best for my garden.

No problem with a computer.

I already received my first order

from a gardening in Ohio:

for $ 10.00 thousand seeds of the

Hairy Blue Grass.

FALL BEGINS

Flowers of the fall:

most popular is

the Daisy family

Fading colors with quiet "living room" in the garden
under the huge
black oak tree.
Used to be a favored place
for relaxation
but this year was not a place
to be: because of the heat.






Here is a my "regular" mailbox
with
newly purchased flowers.
My garden virtually was killed
by the heat and drought.
This was my worst summer
in this place.




The same as above
but
also you can see
the bird feeder
with no birds.
At the end of the summer I reduce the feeding.
The migrating birds
would stay longer
if there is plenty of food.
But when time is to go, they should leave
and keep them with food
is not in favor for them.

And the rain came....

But it was much more coming with it: good size destruction in many parts of New York City. Was some debate about a tornado and yes a tornado struck in Brooklyn. The wind got up over 100 mi and that is shearing off the roofs, knocking down the trees and cars were just smashed up all over.

Fortunately a storm like this is fast moving, but it is enough time to do a very high volume damage. One person was killed: a woman driving in a car Just why could not get out of the car and take cover?

Where I live 25 mi to the East of the City

the destruction was not as heavy

but here also

were some trees lying across roads,

train were stopped and air fights

canceled.

When the storm moved away

lost the strenght

and the next day

we saw the shining Sun again.

September pictures

ArgO

our British photographer sent this picture

of the rare "Norwegian blue butterfly".

The little blue dots on the edge of the wings is the "Norwegian blue!"

This is a great shot of a Dragonfly

an exclusive from ArgO

The title for this photo from from ArgO:

" Bird eating berries on a Rowan tree."

Very popular Daisies in the fall

photo was taken

by Blue Bird in Long Island N.Y.

This Ornamental Grass is the hero of the season.

Year 2010 produced unusual drought in this region of Long Island and demanded lot of strenght from the plants to survive.

This grass got no water in the summer and lives happily ever after.

IT'S ALL RIGHT...

Dear Friends in Blog land! Sorry, I was away for a while from blogging.
Last posting I did at the end of August and now we are already in the middle of September.
Big changes came in the Weather.
Gotten really cool and the Sun gets up much later and goes down sooner and so comes the time of Fall.
Summer was very stressful was for me.
My garden suffered a lot and to see vegetation wilting: that is the cry of the plants and makes me very sad.
Yes I can water some, but the entire region including the North East States---- all were hit by the drought and you see the burned landscapes.
I just did not feel like to blog about the difficult time I went through.
We would need a very heavy rain for couple of hours, but still only gets cloudy, but no rain of any sizable amount.
There are places on Earth -- unfortunately-- with devastating floods and other forms of cruel weather,-- but this is Nature and all we can say:
IT'S ALL RIGHT.... better times will come just wait and see. :-)