Usually I am out there in the mornings as the heat of the day has not yet hit. Anyone living in this area knows we have had a very hot summer and little rain. At least little rain as of late. My roses have suffered from a multitude of circumstances including but not limited to the heat, the Jap beetles, and the dreaded yellow spot. I have inherited approximately 21 rose bushes/plants and have not, to date, killed any of them! As a matter of fact, since the heat has broken, and the Jap beetles have died off for the season, the roses are looking very spiffy!
Please do not point out the black spot disease! Only this year (because I am a slow study) I have learned how it happens and how to treat it. The other day I spent hours picking out the dropped leaves from the mulch. Mindless work that allows deep cracks in the brain to appear.
My back patio area is nothing short of a Sahara-like heat bowl. The southern sun beats down all day long! Nothing survives on the patio of white concrete and sand colored wall. Since I have been traveling back and forth from Memphis all summer and relied on the daughter to water .... well, there were horrible deaths of many hardy plants.
As I said, I am a slow study. It took a while to realize succulents were the answer! They come from the desert, right? So, I was spending yesterday afternoon replanting the resilient remarkable succulents when my back neighbor comes across the yard.
He was so nice! He had brought along a bucket of planting soil as a gift. We chatted a bit about the things neighbors chat about when he suddenly changed the subject and waved his arm towards a corner of my yard and bluntly asked, "Is that a marijuana plant you're growing up there?"
WTH?
As if!!! How funny! It does sort of look like one if you never have seen it before! So I assured him it was a bamboo plant that a very nice person in west Tennessee had given me and I was trying to get it to thrive in southern Indiana. And behold! It is throwing off a baby shoot.
A little later my next door neighbor came over and we chatted about my tomatoes.
And my roses.
And I assured him I was not growing marijuana and he laughed. He was more in the know because he told me I would have been busted long ago if that was the case.
It was only when I went inside I realized I was not wearing a bra under my t-shirt.
No wonder I had so many male visitors!
4 comments:
...and you thought they were looking at your roses! LOL!!!!
I agree with your neighbor...I like succulents too.
Your roses look wonderful. I only have one the Princess Diana rose amongst other flowers. This year I was surprised not so many Japenese beetles but I believe I did not prune it back enough last year so this year I will cut it further back. These sound like friendly neighbors. Perhaps one of them would want to volunteer to water? lol
In my idiot days as a youth, my friends and I tried growing marijuana at the edge of corn field. The plants were well hidden. They were huge! Someone discovered the plants and must have cut them down and either kept the leaves for personal use or to sell. We never tried again after that.
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