Garden Locally, Act For The Planet

Year's ago, my mom planted some Tiger Day Lilies, at the front corner of my property. Since, we've transplanted many of the offshoots, to other corners of our home.

BELOW My wife planted this Hydrangea, maybe 10 years ago. Every other year we get a great bloom and then a so-so bloom year. This year, I see dozens and dozens of blooms!

Above A Closer look at the hydrangea!
Below More of the Tiger Lilies planted around!

they've been a part of my life, and my world for decades now. I see them out front, on the side of my house, and along the back flower garden as well. We had a neighbor, Dr Lu, a landscape architect. He'd been around my brother and I growing up and was always wonderful to us. One day, later on as a teen, I was chatting with him, and he confided, "I always loved seeing them bloom." It was almost a whisper.
I asked, "Why not plant them in your own garden?" He briefly looked back at his house and wife, and he looked down. "I can't." I knew NOT to brook the subject again.

Above We have a few different Varieties of Hydrangea. This one, with jet Black stalks, produces flower blooms about every third year. First year of a black stalk? Nothing Second year with black stalk? A bloom Next year, the stalk turns gray/wood. It's important to remember this, and in that third year, early spring, to cut the grey wood stalk back aggressively. LEAVE the blooms on, over winter.

Below No day in my garden is complete without at LEAST one scampering rabbit, and this morning was no exception.

We're in the middle of a record setting June, with the highest recorded ever, month of temperatures. Sadly, some people are still in denial about the change in climate and mankind's impact on it. Frankly,What are you anyone who walks daily in nature, gardens, or spends time outdoors, KNOWS instinctively what humanity has done to global temperatures, and the climate.


Bird species have migrated north. Plants have migrated as well. Sea levels, while seemingly small, have risen. A mere 3 or 4 inches in sea rise, (6-9 cm) means flooding for most major cities. Storms, in general are significantly harsher, and with more damage, more flooding then ever before.


II personally am spending more time growing my own food, rather than buying foo=d that mostly likely was grown with commercial methods, using systems that contribute to global climate change. Frankly, it doesn't get more local than my backyard. No trucks needed. No chemicals and no major impact.