Holy Petunias!

Abundance and Balance

It's been a pretty good year in the flower garden.

I didn't plant a vegetable garden this year (first time in 15 years!)

Nobody cared in May when I said
'The weeds are out of control ~ does anyone want to help
me clear out and enlarge the veggie garden

so we can have a proper garden instead of just squeezing in

some tomato and pepper plants?'

Nobody wanted to.

So I said OK, we'll just not do a veggie garden this year.

It's alright with me. Now Mr. Magpie is saying,

'Why don't we have any tomatoes this year?'

And I have to refresh his memory.

But the flowers have been abundant and pretty this summer.

It's been the best summer ever for petunias.

But just to keep things in balance,
it must have been a good year for the little

white butterflies (moths?) too, because now

I am fighting with their offspring, the cabbage worms,

for control of the petunias. Ugh!

These little buggers eat voraciously!

They can carve their way through a whole pot
of petunias in one night. I've seen them eating
during the day too. I don't think they ever stop.

See him sleeping peacefully after a night
of debauchery in the petunias?

 They are so hard to find nestled in the

leaves and stems. But I'll continue to
hunt them down and pick them off
cos I won't spread poison around
the entire garden just to get these
little critters. I feel like Elmer Fudd
chasing after that wascaly wabbit.
And we all know how that story always come out.

For some reason they have left

this pot of white petunias alone.

I apologize for the blurry photos.
(I actually took some very nice pictures but
you would not know it from looking at these)
I am blaming it on Blogger.
Suddenly, the photo uploader option
is not working and I had to go back to
the old editor. (Don't ask, I only found all this out
after many wasted hours in the Help forum)
It allowed me to upload photos with the old, old
uploader which you have probably forgotten about
but would recognize if you ever had
the misfortune to use it again.

If (when) the problem is straightened out,
I'll replace these photos with the good ones.

Update August 20: Blogger is now cooperating 

with me again, so I've replaced the pictures.

Maybe you can't even tell, but I can!  *sigh*

Happy gardening!