I still love this post from last September — hope you do too!
Every so often, I wish I had a well-behaved garden.
The kind where everything does what I want, when I want.
Where flowers don’t stray into lawns and lawns don’t stray into flowerbeds, and the strong wind didn’t break one of the arches on the arbour my dear husband so carefully built.
But this I know:
Real gardens offer up surprises each week, each day and sometimes, each hour.
Like flowers blooming in unexpected colours.
And interesting visitors.
Like this large bird in the apple tree.
And wild rabbits.
Cleaning themselves without a care in the world.
Like this mother duck, with her ducklings.
She must have squeezed herself under the fence.
This ant, dragging a dead moth many times its size. It took the moth way across the verandah.
This beet, expected to be dark red, is somehow orange.
A single squash. It’s from a vine that strayed from…
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Cynthia Reyes 
Well-behaved gardens, like well-behaved children, never turn out to be as interesting as those that may stray:).
Hah! I hear you.
Your garden is certainly full of life and energy…like a kindergarden class, it’s messy and unpredictable and willful, but full of joy
Kinda like life – if we’re lucky.
Oh, I like it too! What a wonderful and lively garden you share with the other creatures!
Yes, yes! Except when they are eating our veggies!
They do keep you guessing!
Indeed.
I wouldn’t dream of having a well behaved garden…far too predictable 🙂
You made me smile.
No wonder that the people who lived in nature rather than houses and offices felt that they were not separate from it. I am amazed how deeply I am drawn to the plants and animals around me when I am out in nature.
We are all related somehow, Aggie!
Remarkable photographs… Truly beautiful, dear Cynthia… Best wishes. Aquileana 😉
Thank you, on behalf of the artist.
Great post. Because gardens are living things, they are full of surprises and not predictable. And usually the surprised are good.
Well said.
I love those surprises!
Me too!
I remember this post! 🙂
Thanks, Ines!
I enjoyed this post. I understand what you mean about surprises in the garden. Sometimes there are small disappointments, but then there are these moments where you witness things that are so beautiful and unexpected in both the plant and animal kingdoms. 🙂
You said it so well, Theresa. thank you.
All those little garden surprises … that’s a bit of magic right there, isn’t it? Love them all, especially that industrious ant bringing his/her find back to the nest.
Yes, Jeanne. There’s magic, for sure.
I love little surprises as well in my garden. I remember looking at those “hanging squash” in amazement last year. I need to try that. Now to get the man to build me an arbor 🙂
Good luck!
Wonderful, happy pictures. I love the blushing peony and the lovely hosta circle round the tree.
Thank you, Hilary. Wishing you a good week.