I’d had high hopes for my flower bed this year. I ditched my usual dahlias and remembered I’d wanted sunflowers. And wouldn’t they go nicely with a bed of nasturtiums? This was all outside our fenced garden enclosure which protects the veggies from the voracious local deer. The deer have never touched the dahlias or nasturtiums so I figured I was safe. I thought I’d planned a very pretty little flower garden.
Wrong! It could have been worse. My friend Marie has emailed me pictures of her nasturtiums that are nothing but stems. But still. A gardener needs to whine sometimes.
By the way, the grey skies you see in the top shot are from wildfire smoke. It’s back.
Still looks pretty in a disheveled sort of way Kay 😉 oh believe me, I do a fair bit of whining in summer, usually about the lack of water for the garden! Sad to hear the wildfires are burning again .
Ah, just when you think it’s safe to garden, the deer show up.
So sad. But that’s what they do. I planted flowers one year, and then watched as each deer that came by had to “test” it and take a nibble. Well we had so many deer that the flowers were destroyed pretty quickly. Experiment over.
Yours would have been beautiful with the sunflowers!
My wife’s grandmother always had a deer problem in her gardens both flowers and veggies. She used to run out in the yard banging on pots whenever a deer was spotted. Sometimes they would just stand there and stare at her. She told us they probably thought she was a crazy old lady. 🙂
I have to laugh, Bill. I’ve run out clapping and yelling at the deer several times, only to have them stand stock still and stare at me…one, after beginning to nibble on one of my treasured sunflowers. So far it seems I’m only an inconvenient interruption to lunch.
I’ve had a strange garden – the morning glories have not flowered and neither have the beans until this week. And the squirrels are feasting on the tomatoes!
Grace has it right: pretty in a disheveled kind of way. (Nice phrase.)
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Jack (and others), No matter how I configure comment moderation I must manually approve all comments. I’m very sorry. If you have commented before the comment form should autofill with your information. There have been software updates I hoped would have corrected this; however, I’m pretty much on my own in trying to troubleshoot blog issues…and though I’m no technophobe I’m also a long way from being a geek.
I might give sunflowers and nasturtiams a go in my garden – I like the combo as it appears in your photos – we don’t have dear to deal with just Kangaroos and I am sure they won’t find them tasty,