One of the best things about living in your own house at 95 (Miss Roberta had a birthday in May) is having a 65 year old flower garden.
She is very particular about her garden. I call it an everything garden, because it has flowers blooming in every season.
This season it’s lupines, daisies and iris. She’s an old-fashioned gardener, so instead of mulch and weeding, she uses bare ground and Round-Up. With all that Round-Up, the insect populations are askew and she’ll sometimes lose the whole bed to insect infestations. Which requires massive applications of insecticides.
I don’t say a thing about her chemical dependencies. Sometimes she wonders to me why the populations of pollinators are so sparse, but I don’t explain to her that Round-Up kills the native bumblebees in their underground burrows. She can’t hear well enough to catch it, and at 95 her gardening habits are set.
And it is a beautiful stand of lupines.
Best wishes to Ms Roberta, and my, what a pretty garden..beautiful lupines. Too bad about the roundup. And Barb, I do use my bike alot so I don’t have to refuel often. And I live intown so I walk to everything, I saw on the news Catalina Is. pays $.75 more per gal then us.
Purdy !