Jillaurie (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} deerdancer22) wrote,@ 2009-07-12 07:20:00 |
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Dispatches From the Garden 1
Today is Sunday - day three of my meditation and contemplative gardening retreat. Except for time with my mom I am mostly keeping in solitude for a week as my roommate is away. I am not doing e-mail or FB or even answering the phone, except to check for messages 2 times a day, I did decide to add in some contemplative writing time as I have been out of touch with my creativity for a while. So here is the first dispatch from the gardens, I might send out another one in a few days:
The Butterfly Garden
The butterfly garden is in! I have lots of Monarch caterpillars on the asclepias. They ate the two plants I had so I bought a big lush one and they are chomping away and growing very fat. Today I saw a Monarch on it, I assume laying eggs. Deborah will have seedlings for me.
Next to the asclepias (milkweed) is a buddhelai (butterfly bush) and I saw the Monarch and some others on it even though it is still quite little. The other plants, which are not in flower yet are bugleweed, dianthus and salvia. I am waiting for the gallardia to go half price at Lowes. It's starting to look bedragled.
And I also want some echinachea. I need to look up a few native plants that hummingbirds like. I have a shepard's hook for hummingbird feeders but I would like some plants for them also. So now I have a lovely little butterfly and hummingbird garden right outside my bedroom window in front of the gardenias and hyacinths. Oh bliss.
On the other side by the fence is the bird and squirrel space. From the day I envisioned it, cardinals started coming onto the property and yelling at me to get going! I still have to put up a squirrel feeder as anything for them on the ground will be eaten by the dogs. In addition to a cardinal couple I have mockingbirds who sing all day, bluejays who seem to like peanuts even more than the squirrels do, and morning doves.
I am envisioning my yard full of butterflies, hummingbirds, dragonflies, birds and squirrels. Sounds like heaven to me!
The Saced Space
The Sacred space has a mango tree in the center with a Buddha underneath. This mango was just a little twig that my neighbor gave me 3 months ago and is now a 4 ft high very healthy tree. Part of this is how fast things grow in Florida and part is he is a very happy tree being at the center of a sacred circle.
I have worked with the nature dralas of the property for what crystals and other objects belong in the circle and the plants. Today I finally got the plants in. I have more lantana (a bunch is up front) which butterflies like, two pentas and two yellow diasy like annuals, which down here can end up being perennials.
Today is Sunday - day three of my meditation and contemplative gardening retreat. Except for time with my mom I am mostly keeping in solitude for a week as my roommate is away. I am not doing e-mail or FB or even answering the phone, except to check for messages 2 times a day, I did decide to add in some contemplative writing time as I have been out of touch with my creativity for a while. So here is the first dispatch from the gardens, I might send out another one in a few days:
The Butterfly Garden
The butterfly garden is in! I have lots of Monarch caterpillars on the asclepias. They ate the two plants I had so I bought a big lush one and they are chomping away and growing very fat. Today I saw a Monarch on it, I assume laying eggs. Deborah will have seedlings for me.
Next to the asclepias (milkweed) is a buddhelai (butterfly bush) and I saw the Monarch and some others on it even though it is still quite little. The other plants, which are not in flower yet are bugleweed, dianthus and salvia. I am waiting for the gallardia to go half price at Lowes. It's starting to look bedragled.
And I also want some echinachea. I need to look up a few native plants that hummingbirds like. I have a shepard's hook for hummingbird feeders but I would like some plants for them also. So now I have a lovely little butterfly and hummingbird garden right outside my bedroom window in front of the gardenias and hyacinths. Oh bliss.
On the other side by the fence is the bird and squirrel space. From the day I envisioned it, cardinals started coming onto the property and yelling at me to get going! I still have to put up a squirrel feeder as anything for them on the ground will be eaten by the dogs. In addition to a cardinal couple I have mockingbirds who sing all day, bluejays who seem to like peanuts even more than the squirrels do, and morning doves.
I am envisioning my yard full of butterflies, hummingbirds, dragonflies, birds and squirrels. Sounds like heaven to me!
The Saced Space
The Sacred space has a mango tree in the center with a Buddha underneath. This mango was just a little twig that my neighbor gave me 3 months ago and is now a 4 ft high very healthy tree. Part of this is how fast things grow in Florida and part is he is a very happy tree being at the center of a sacred circle.
I have worked with the nature dralas of the property for what crystals and other objects belong in the circle and the plants. Today I finally got the plants in. I have more lantana (a bunch is up front) which butterflies like, two pentas and two yellow diasy like annuals, which down here can end up being perennials.
