Today I Learned About Lavender

I am going to grow some.

I admit: I have been inspired by a source well beyond my ability level.

I saw a picture in a Victoria magazine where the display of lavender looked wonderful!

Mine won’t look like that.

I can accept that.

Interestingly, lavender is the first thing I planted when we moved to this house.  We had a garden that was along the edge of our back driveway/parking lot.  It was the first thing you saw when you drove in.  I weeded it out, worked the soil up and planted lavender.  It looked beautiful and was growing well.

Then . . .

We needed more storage for my husband’s work so we moved in a semi truck trailer and parked it RIGHT NEXT TO MY LAVENDER BEDS!  Oh, the irony!  The only gardening bed I had done anything to and now it couldn’t even be seen!

My lavender is now either buried under leftover chunks of metal or twisting up to the sun between sodden bits of 2x4. And sadly, whatever it is doing, it isn’t noticed by anyone as it is hidden by a  . . . semi-truck!

Oh well, my husband’s storage system works and it has been one less garden bed to water.

In any case, I am going to grow lavender again.

I am going to climb back in to that garden bed and rescue any survivors of Lavendergate 2008.  I am going to gather a collection of assorted garden pots. I may even paint some of them if I can actually decide on a colour theme for our garden/deck area for this summer.  I am going to plant lavender in the pots and place them artistically beneath the apple tree. 

I

Am

Going

To

Water

Them

When

They

Need

It.

My garden will look like a small portion of one 7.5 x 15 cm photo on page 42 of the March/April 2015 issue of Victoria.

I am on my way to breath-taking floral gardening!

Ahem.

Maybe.