Posted in Country Fotos, Country Thoughts, Gardening, How To, Look at This!, The Land, tagged Country thoughts, Garden, goodness, grass, grass seed, Growing Things, little things, nature, Sunshine, the world on October 16, 2020| 8 Comments »
A little sun, some grass seed and a cover of straw and look what we have created! Or rather, the earth has given forth and I am once again amazed at just what goodness the world can wrought.
Oh, I know growing grass is a little thing.
But that is what this story is about – the green green grass growing in our front garden!
And sometimes pictures speak louder than words.
Posted in Camera-Walking, Country Fotos, Country Sights, Country Thoughts, nature, Uncategorized, Virginia, tagged country life, country photo, Forests, Growing Things, Mushsrooms, photography, rural Virginia, Virginia, weather, woodlands on May 26, 2016| 18 Comments »
It must be Virginia’s perpetual wet weather. My little woodland retreat is transformed into a magical mushroom haven never seen before.
Posted in Country Fotos, Country Thoughts, Gardening, Love, Survival, Trees, tagged country living, Country thoughts, gardening, Growing Things, Plants, Survival, trees, Tulip Poplars, volunteers on August 6, 2014| 31 Comments »
It was yesterday’s pot, last year’s soil, unplanted, and left to thought.
I forgot the flower pot this spring and there it stood – waiting. Occasionally I thought about what might flourish in that soil filled container in the hot, desert-like conditions of a windy deck. But quite simply I never got around to doing anything and planned to empty the pot and store it in the garage.
Awaiting some action, the pot of old soil just stood there looking empty and forlorn.
Spring was glorious but suddenly it was summer when I noticed a little green sprout – a so-called volunteer.
“Maybe it will be a magnificent flower,” I thought.
It turned out the baby green thing is a Tulip Poplar, a tree that grows to 80 to 100 feet tall with show-off blooms of tulip shaped flowers. There is a stand of
Tulip Poplar Leaves and Flower
these trees at the edge of the property, no doubt watching over little “Toolip”. Her leaves are precisely the same and that’s how I recognized the sprout.
I have no heart to kill such a brave and hearty volunteer so Toolip is still growing in her pot.
She requires almost no attention but I tend to “mother” her anyway.
She is healthy and green.
I talk to her and she seems to understand (hopefully no one else is listening).
She is there – always there, and somehow makes me smile.
Perhaps when she is a plantable sapling size or looking ready for more soil, I will find a more permanent place.
But for now I am Toolip’s volunteer Mother and she is temporarily mine.
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