GPE #4 : Maddie's "real crowd pleasers"

 

M I S T R E S S  M A D D I E 

 

I honestly, standardly expect my garden to be a visual representation of my chaotic energy at times, but this season actually knocked it out of the park. I wasn't sure after such a cold winter, and did lose a couple of species.  

My wildflower garden completely stole the show, filled with everything from coneflowers, daisies, Mexican sunflowers, asters, zinnia, bee balm, nasturtiums, hollyhocks, and things I can't recall.... it began looking like a patch of weeds and later more like a intentional, vibrant pollinator paradise.

 

 

Other favorites of mine were the Cassia, a passionflower, the Flamingo flower, the delphiniums, poppies and dahlias and the roses. Many things including the salvia are continuing to go strong. 

 

But the real crowd-pleasers this year are definitely the succulent moon platters—everyone, well, men, who visits completely obsesses over them, which is hilarious because they require about 2% of the effort of everything else in the garden. 

 

Warning: Maddie's succulents

 

I told you the men like to manhandle the moon platters. Warbucks was scolded for such behavior.

 

 

It turns out that thriving on neglect some of the time is apparently my signature gardening style, and honestly, the results tickled me.

 

 

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 Well, Maddie, that was beautiful!  Your succulents are looking good, so you clearly haven't had any dry spells...