It is already the beginning of September. The kids have gone back to school and the nights are getting cooler. And my flower bed is overgrown! I had no idea that periwinkles would reseed, but they have, and I have tons. I planted moss rose and periwinkles in pots and they both fell out and reseeded to come up in the dirt around the pot. I also have volunteer petunias from last year.

There’s only one reason for this: I am trying to pair down the flower bed and just have bushes and rocks. They know! I’m trying to streamline the garden and make it easier to care for and they are rebelling. Flowers are growing everywhere.

My plan was to clean out the big flower bed and move the bulbs to the little flower bed. I would get rid of the pots (and the blue wine bottles) and make the life of a gardener a little easier and now I have an abundance of flowers. I water in the evenings unless it rains and that is all. They like it here.

Yesterday I walked out onto the sidewalk and was accosted by a DeKay’s Brown snake about six inches long. I thought it was a worm, and as I tried to step over it, the little critter coiled and prepared to strike! I have night crawler worms twice as big as the little snake. I called my husband, and he shooed it off into the garden. I know he’s lying in wait for me, now. Even though he is nonpoisonous, I don’t want him around. All snakes can kill you when you run into a wall trying to get away from them.

But back to the original thought for this blog, fall is just around the corner. I plan to start digging out unwanted plants and cleaning out the fall garden. Let me know if you need any petunias, periwinkles, moss rose, or a pet DeKay’s Brown snake. They are going cheap but that is Another Story for another Time.

What are you reading/writing/creating this week?