2nd August 2020
The madness of America sometimes gets to me. The dumb ass attitude of many makes me wonder about the future.
If I wasn’t going through the residency process, or locked down by a pandemic, I wouldn’t be trapped here, not that things are wrong, quite the opposite, it’s the freedom of choice that has been taken away from me.
For several months we have nurtured our garden, both of us were novices when it came to selecting plants to fill our beds. We purchased bags of wild flower seeds, one from an on-line source the other from Aldi.
We waited patiently for the seeds to grow, diligently watering them every evening and watching eagerly as little green shoots appeared above the soil.
As they matured, some burst into bloom whilst others continued to grow tall with no indication of what they would transform into.
Still in our innocence, we wanted to know what these tall plants were? there was no signs of any buds just more height.
I downloaded an app for my phone hoping that would help us identify our collection.
Imagine our shock when we discovered that a lot of the plants that we had been feeding and encouraging were Ragweeds. Not only were these weeds poisonous, they could give allergic reaction to sensitive people.
It was a sense of utter failure that we both had to pull them up and discard them.
These must have been amongst the flower seeds that came from the on-line source.
Okay you live and learn, in future we will only buy seeds from a local source, and educate ourselves so that the bloomers we make are the right ones.
Another Lifetime to go 