Choice Morsels

Welcome to another Garden Pic Wednesday! Today we look at this weeks project: edging the North bed that runs from the A/C unit to a corner bed just outside my back door & patio. Back in July, my neighbor on this side hired someone to remove the many pines in his back yard and that person sub-contracted a tree cutter, a tree cutter who was completely inept at tree cutting. That cutter dropped tree trunks on every fence encircling my neighbors yard, adjacent neighbors sheds and turned all the grass between our houses into dirt driving a small tractor back & forth. My neighbor kindly made sure he replaced all the grass between our houses. So in these first 2 photo you're seeing the new sod. This photo is after I spent 3 days completely weeding this bed I've added some top soil along the grass edge to raise the soil level next to the sod in preparation for the edging. The Ponytail Asparagus fern you see at the bottom is part of the corner bed in the second photo This is the

Today's featured Garden Pic is my Golden Spider Lily! Like the Orange, it's a Magic Lily with just a stem appearing in September. There are 2 stems, one from each bulb. (Apparently it was fruitful and multiplied.) I caught this pretty shot in late day yesterday, as the sun rays were sliding toward the West, highlighting this blossom!   I took this shot this morning: The second stem blossom opened & they look pretty entwined.

Here's a delightful early morning shot of Orange Spiders Lilies in the middle of Pink Vinca!  Orange Spider Lilies are a type of magic lily common to the Deep South; harbingers of autumn, a single stem or two springing up from the ground out of nowhere. Then, once the flowers are done, their leaves pop-up, lasting until spring when they melt away.