I’ve begun growling at people who go all squishy at seeing the adorable wee baby bunny hanging out in the front garden.
Too bad it didn’t work. After researching plants most likely to repel rabbits and protect a front flowerbed from being munched to the ground, I arranged dwarf French marigolds around the bed perimeter and added groups of big, bushy African marigold transplants to make the bed as unappealing and unpalatable as possible to the increasing number of rabbits in the garden.
Broad beans and telephone woes. Neighbours across the street were a wonderful help when my landline phone went dead. Reaching a human person to speak with on Carmen’s cell was an ordeal, but finally a technician was booked to re-connect the line later in the week. Warm weather flowers. I knew it would happen. The verbena transplants I spotted on a sidewalk display in the spring would expand speedily to spread around the rim of a patio pot, and bloom vibrantly around the red geraniums once the weather warmed.
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