A Lost Garden?
Sorry People, I was going to keep you guys posted on the progress of my garden, but some things have happened over the last few weeks that really took the wind out of my sails. I had almost given up on my garden all together, but alas, things have gotten a little better here lately.
The weather here has been tremendous to say the least. Hot and humid, storms have been building almost everyday in the afternoons for weeks now. About a month ago a late afternoon storm blew through our region with heavy winds, rain and lots of hail. The hail just about demolished everything in the garden. It beat my sunflowers to a pulp, knocked down my Angel Trumpets, shredded leaves and knocked off new flower heads.
When I got home from work that night I was sure there wouldn’t be anything left of my garden. It wasn’t until the next morning that I was able to inspect the damage and what I found just made me sick. My husband tried to cheer me up, he told me in a month I wouldn’t even be able to tell that the storm had done any damage. He said, “Yeah it looks bad now, but it didn’t kill everything.” With a heavy heart I bucked up and started to clean up the yard as best I could.
After a few days things started to look a bit better in the yard and I was beginning to believe what my husband had told me. The following week that all changed.
Right now we rent so there are a lot of things we have to put up with, like it or not. One of the things we have to live with is some of the decisions that the managers make concerning certain things in this park we live in. Last year a tree fell on a trailer and unfortunately it killed one of the occupants. Since then, they have been crazy about all of the beautiful trees here. They brought in a tree trimmer and cut out a lot of trees and trimmed a bunch of others. They kept saying they needed to trim the only shade giving tree in our yard, a beautiful massive giant of a Tulip Popular. We talked in length with the managers about the trimming of the tree. Each time they reassured us that they wouldn’t have it trimmed but just a little bit. They would take a little of the top and trim some of the secondary limbs, they told us it would be alright.
The day finally came and the tree trimmer showed up just as I was walking out to go to work. My husband was home and was going to oversee the project as best he could. He talked to the trimmer, and was told, matter of fact, that he the trimmer, had been doing this since he was 12 years old and knew what he was doing. My husband was skeptical, but what could he do, it wasn’t our property. I have to say I was a bit nervous about the warfare of my plants as they were trying really hard to make a come back. I watched in my rear-view mirror as I drove off to work, a little anxious to say the least.
When I got home from work that night and drove into the drive, my first thought was, “Where’s my tree?” All I could see in the moonlight was a fat stick standing where my tree used to be. As shocking as that was to me at the moment, the next morning just made me sick. My husband was just as upset as I was over the entire ordeal, but there wasn’t anything we could do about it. It was done, and by the way, the trimmers dropped branches all over my plants and took out some of the storm survivors, but they didn’t kill everything.
I’m including some pictures of my plants at the end of this post so that I can update you all with the progress of my garden. My 2010 garden has struggled a lot this year, but what a fighter it has turned out to be! 
I hope you enjoy the pictures.
Flower garden in the front
Sunflowers and Scarlet runners in new planter
Tomato garden
Sunflower
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