Sunday, May 24, 2020

Everything’s Growing

Trish and I just had our Sunday morning walk around the yard and are amazed that, after all the rain of the week, everything is growing like mad.

We scattered grass seed in the part of the yard where the old trees were recently cut, and, just four days later, baby grass is springing up everywhere!

Our huge red cedar tree tree is filled with wind chimes, bird feeders, and hanging ferns.  It is our visual and sound focus as we sit in the screen porch each morning with coffee, hot chocolate, and English muffins.  The ferns seem to have doubled in size this week.

We love our biggest cedar tree.
As we walk around the house, the climbing roses that screen our outdoor shower are beginning to burst into pink abundance.  They will really be climbing and blooming in the coming days.

With no freeze or frost this past winter, many annual plants lived and are having a glorious new season for free.  The nasturtiums kept blooming all winter, but now they are really showing us what they are meant to do in more tropical climates.

Nasturtiums bring free blooms for the second year.
The Asiatic Lily plants are partying off the back deck.  Their surprising colors and patterns joyfully last for weeks this time of year.

The Asiatic Lily colors are brilliant.

And...after looking like they were dead for sure, the banana trees are beginning to pop up the first of their fast-growing  leaves.  They will be eight to ten feet tall by the end of the summer.

We have four varieties if bananas.  If we have a frost free winter, we may even get bananas.
This week Ocracoke was selected as the number two beach in the United States (we can’t be number one again for ten years since being selected last time, but we have been number two for the second year in a row).  So many people come here just for the beach, but, our walk around our own yard shows us again that there is more than the beach to live for here.

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