More from our untended garden. It’s amazing how lovely it is without any human intervention. It’s also pretty good at defending itself. The hedge roses have lethal thorns and they have spread to the point of having taken over the area.
We aren’t sure how we can even remove the one bush that died during the winter because the thorns are no less vicious in death than they were in life. Those little hedge roses are as friendly as barbed wire.
They resemble nothing so much as beautiful, rose-scented barbed wire. These are planted on estates to protect areas from animal and human invaders. Highly effective. They don’t merely grab. They tear through gloves, sleeves and jeans. One would need body armor to approach those wicked thorns without getting cut.
Yet they look so lovely and smell like heaven. There’s a metaphor there.
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SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
Beautiful, right down to the ‘barbed wire.’ My weed garden doesn’t look too bad either. It’s amazing how tall the flowering plants are getting without my attention. The weeds are climbing too, which is great. I can tug on a few and toss them into the grass without bending. YAY!
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Nature triumphant. I’m surprised too. It looked so awful early in the spring. Thanks, Bette.
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THREE CHEERS for THE WEED GARDENS! Have a great week, Marilyn. 🙂
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Hip hip hooray … It sure beats breaking what’s left of our backs when Mom Nature will do the work for us 🙂
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You bet! Dan went in to see Dr. with me last week and insisted that I stop vacuuming. OUCH… Oh, well. Good news is that I’ve had 3 very good days (not in agony). AND, I’m ignoring the mess in the house. I need time to finish DOG BONE SOUP. Working on my 6th self-edit/revision, so hope to finish up this week and get it off to the pros. BEST TO YOU, MY FRIEND! XO
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Back at you, friend 🙂 XOXO
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All we had to do was wait. Mother Nature heard us.
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Kind of like magic 🙂
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so pretty- the flowers are amazing. I love the shot of the trees
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Funny how lovely it is in summer, that driveway. And how evil (and daunting) in winter!
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Those are lovely photos
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Thank you very much. It’s my gift from Mom Nature for surviving winter 🙂
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Very lovely !
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Thank you. It gets lovelier each day and I’m amazed, because I haven’t done anything except take some pictures. It is really doing it all by itself 🙂
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love the photos – and it is great how the untended garden is so independent – 🙂 and the orange in this collage was what really captured me – such great shots M! Have a nice day and I hope you are doing well.
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The day lilies are my candidates for power flower of the year. They are survivors!
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Lovely! I’d like to leave parts of my tiny garden to just grow and see what happens, but I do have a responsibility to stop my plants growing into other people’s gardens and the path, so I have to do some cutting and pruning.
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Our limits are keeping the well head, gate and path clear. Neighbors are hundreds of yards away on either side, and miles away on the back end. Closest neighbors are across the street.
We have a gigantic and over-eager holly bush on the other side of the walk that wants to eat us too. But the roses are definitely more wicked by far. I planted them because they are notoriously hardy — and so they have proved — but I didn’t realize the evil nature of those thorns until the baby bushes (they were so tiny and cute when we planted them) had achieved some size and started their bid to rule the world by (successfully) choking to death all the climbing roses.
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