In the Garden

I'm not sure what happened to me in July. Normally I'm all about the wandering but apparently I had a need to get deeply rooted in July because I spent a large part of it setting up gardens and planting things.

At home, I set up a row of container gardens in the backyard as well as a garden of potted hostas in the front. Who am I?



 

More in line with what I'm about but still garden related, I spent a Saturday morning staffing a table at Little Wings on the Prairie, a pollinator festival at, you guessed it, a pollinator garden. I handed out journaling supplies so families could take clipboards, paper and writing implements into the garden to make observations. 




It was a good July. We'll see what August brings.

Besides tomatoes and zucchini, that is.

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