Thursday, July 03, 2008

Order? Possibly it's time to stray......

Order.
In a sense, it's all I have. My life runs on it. My children thrive with it and my job depends on being meticulous with it.
Yet I look at my front yard, with the strategically planned August Beauty Gardenias and Tea Olive plants and I cringe upon pulling into the driveway. Its bland. And annoyingly symmetric.

I need something different. I need to let loose with a wild side (as if a gardener has that?)

I need plants that bloom once a year, only for the glory of it.
I need blooms that are rainbow colored.
I need plants that are misplaced and odd looking.

Thinking of my wild overgrown front yard with something in every inch, excites me.

I so long for the comments again that I used to get. "who does your yard" and "what landscape company do you use"

I need to pull up to my house after a ridiculous long day and be satisfied with what my mystical jungle looks like.

So next week, I have no plans... except for some excavation.


And I have butterflies..... and not just on my bushes.