What does your garden look like ... Today?

[JBtheExplorer]

Scarlet Bee Balm 'Jacob Cline'

Wild Bergamot

Monarch butterfly

Orange Meadowhawk Dragonfly

Hoary Vervain

Purple Poppy Mallow

Blazing Star

 

[alp]

Some snaps this morning

Pretty sure this is a bee magnet. Don't know its name. Saw a man carrying a pot of this proudly in a posh nursery. This only cost me £1.

Cocosmia - love the red orangy combo!

French Cancan
Last year's bargain flowering happily now

 

[Becky]

Awesome, glad to hear you're spreading the word @JBtheExplorer

 

[alp]

Awesome, glad to hear you're spreading the word @JBtheExplorer

JB's artistry doesn't need my help, Becky! I love to come here to ogle .. The clarity and beauty are breathtaking.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Speaking of spreading the word...

I was asked today if I'd like to be featured in a potential news story about the native gardening movement, where me and my native garden would be featured. I'd love to, but there's no way I could do it! I carry a ridiculous amount of anxiety with me at all times, but even more so when the focus is on me. Plus, I'm terrible at putting thoughts together to make a single meaningful sentence, let alone an entire interview.

I'm entirely flattered to be asked, though.

 

[alp]

You should tell them your anxiety and ask them to keep the interview to a minimum. It would be a shame not to spread your words. Ask them how much though. I wouldn't have the TV crew trampling on my garden. Go them to go softly as they are trampling on your dream. You could do a trial run on youtube and see how it goes. It would be a shame that your work doesn't get more exposure.

 

[alp]

Rudbeckias - yesterday, I saw a moth with similar colours resting on the biggest flower. I missed it when I came out with a camera!

 

[MaryMary]

Speaking of spreading the word...

I was asked today if I'd like to be featured in a potential news story about the native gardening movement, where me and my native garden would be featured. I'd love to, but there's no way I could do it! I carry a ridiculous amount of anxiety with me at all times, but even more so when the focus is on me. Plus, I'm terrible at putting thoughts together to make a single meaningful sentence, let alone an entire interview.

I'm entirely flattered to be asked, though.

That's great!! Are they going to do the piece without you? Was the main focus "this guy's garden" or "Plant Native Plants!!" ??

Why don't you ask them in advance for a list of the questions that they would be asking, and then you can practice your answers 'til you're comfortable talking about it. . Or maybe they could interview you off camera and just talk about your answers while they show your plants. (Take the focus off you, and put it on the plants.)

It worked for Johnny Appleseed - we'll have to start calling you JB Milkweed!!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

You should tell them your anxiety and ask them to keep the interview to a minimum. It would be a shame not to spread your words.

I think I can spread my words considerably better via text than I ever could with my voice. I don't have that in me. Some people are speakers, some are thinkers. I'm looking into potentially getting the reporter in contact with someone who would better fit that role. We'll see if anything happens.

Plus, my garden is not as picturesque as I'd like. It would be a bad time to showcase it. A combination of phytoplasma and rabbits have made quite a few bare spots, and with the garden still so young, I'm still working to establish quite a few species, as well as cut back on other species that I originally over-seeded. In its current "under construction" state, it wouldn't be a good representation of what a native garden could be.

 

[alp]

JB: They are not going to film your whole garden. Just what is best. You worry too much! If I worry so much, I won't be able to post any pics here!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

You worry too much!

You're saying what I've already known my whole life!
I'd love to be fearless, but my brain continues on with worry regardless. Just the way my brain was hardwired.

 

[alp]

Good! That means you're human! With faults! LOL!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Here's some garden video from a few days ago. Just got around to uploading it.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

You are so talented @JBtheExplorer....amazing, stunning!!!

 

[DirtMechanic]

The garden is going by at this point. I have taken up the zuchinni already. The last of the summer squash are done. The wetness and insects are winning against the age of the plants I would think. I have been hauling 5 gallon buckets of veg out roughly every 2 days. I have used everything I know to extend the production into the wet heat of late summer but I am still losing the fight to keep pristine plants. I really do not think it is possible, but without the pathogens of our semi tropical summer the production would go on for a while longer. Still, because of the soil barriers and thyme oil I used prior-the production was solid given the small and tight space in which we plant.