Rosie's Early August Garden.

Welcome to Rosie's early August garden.

My spider plant comes back every year.
I always thought this was an indoor plant,
but I stuck it in the ground so I could enjoy it outside
and it apparently likes it here.

What to do with broken pots?

Bury the broken part 

and fill the pot with natural "treasures."

My pot spews fulgurite.

Back in the 70s, 

I made a terrarium for Mama Hawthorne.

After she died,

I brought the terrarium back home with me

with 40-year old dirt in it

and left it in my garden

over a solar light.

It's like a big light bulb.

It's hard to see,

but there's a water barrel with a fountain in the back.

That lilac colored thingie

is the bloom of a water hyacinth.

Seed pods of money plant, aka honesty plant,

of the genus Lunaria,

a member of the mustard family.

It has pretty purple blooms in early spring.
This self-seeds profusely.

Pretty water hyacinth.

This is under my mimosa tree.

Black and blue salvia.

My poor bay tree on the right -

listing victim of numerous hurricanes.

I had to trim the branches on the left side

to keep the tree from falling over.

The ground at the trunk base.
is a foot higher than the surrounding areas.
Hurricanes damn near blew that tree over.

Shamrocks.

I like using contrasting materials

for both mulching and walkways.

Funny story about those granite seats.

That was supposed to be the granite 

going around our fireplace.

When the workers came to install the granite,

they took it off the truck and leaned it

up against the garage door
and went about their merry business.

Of course, Mr. Hawthorne chose that morning

to go downstairs to the utility room
 to get his bottle of water out of the fridge.

He then opened up the garage door from the inside to leave for work.

And that's how I got two granite seats for my garden.

Snapdragons.

Little fishie in my glass pond.

Recycled wine bottles surround my glass pond.

Wild grape that decided to grow on the fence.

Youngest Hawthorne shot this picture.