THIS is the garden I'm going to plant come spring! I mean, look...it's freezing in the mornings and at night here already, but yet this still looks hearty and orangely pretty.
*note-this picture was taken at 7:30am with a heavy fog and dew levels, so it doesn't have the same effect as when you see it mid-afternoon all sun warmed and vibrant. But use your imagination, or just humor me. And you have to totally ignore the dead one in the lower left hand corner of the picture, and the dead one right in the center of the picture. Just trust me, it looks nice in person!*
And I never see the homeowners out in this yard doing any kind of upkeep, which corresponds nicely to the kind of upkeep they would get in my yard.
I seem to remember some kind of gardening advice (probably from my own [super]mom) that marigolds keep bugs away from other plants. Well, I'm thinking that this many marigolds will keep bugs away from ME and my house! Maybe if encircle the house in a 2 foot area of marigolds I can rid it of all the spiders, gnats, and other miscellaneous bugs that are currently residing with us?
I have never seen marigolds this big and tall before. Granted they are in a raised planter box thing that is these people's front yard, but they are still alarmingly tall and plentiful! And I love how they are varying shades of yellows and oranges.
Do you think marigolds are like hastas, if I go secretly dig some of theirs up during the night and bring them over to my house, will they reproduce? I tried growing a garden from seeds when we 1st got here and
OH, oh, oh!! I could plant a 2,000 square foot area of them in our backyard to ward away the bugs, small mammals, and other creepy crawly things! Then I could have beautiful pictures of Sweet Pea and Corn Niblet skipping through the
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Just here to inform people, learning's the name of the game!
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