Every year on the third Saturday in May, the local garden club has its annual plant sale. Members donate perennials from their gardens, and this is a great way of knowing that these plants will survive in this area. Once again I awoke early Saturday morning to be there for 8:00am for the start of the sale. The church bells were just chiming the hour when I arrived and the place was already mobbed. Everyone knows to get the best stuff you have to get there early. I chose a few things to fill in the gaps in my garden.
Pictured here is a lupine that I bought 3 years ago. I brought it home and planted it and waited. The first year there were no blooms so I figured perhaps it didn't like being transplanted and waited patiently for the second year. Still no blooms, so I decided to move it, perhaps it simply needed a sunnier spot. Well, success! This year there are blossoms! I am thrilled. I have learned over the years not to give up on a plant but to try it somewhere else. Hopefully this year's purchases will also be happy here in my yard.
This morning I watched a Baltimore Oriole devouring caterpillars from a web cocoon. Great, eat them up before they eat the entire trees worth of leaves. The bird would eat and then sing, most likely celebrating his success in finding such a great hoard of tasty morning treats.
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