A bee flies towards a poppy in the accidental wildflower garden.
For at least eight years, hortensia (hydrangeas) bloomed in this giant plant space on our balcony. Sadly, damage when the balcony was sand-blasted doomed the hortensia. When weeds started to grow in its place, I looked out the window and thought 'I should go pull them up.' But I was busy and traveling, so the weeds kept growing. Daisies and other wildflowers arrived, including a mass of poppies. My husband suggested we could consider it as a wildflower garden; certainly an improvement over a bed of weeds. As I snapped a photo, a bee buzzed by... Perhaps pulling the weeds can wait a while longer.
a living example of my favorite wish....."May all your weeds be wildflowers." You are soooo lucky!!!
Posted by: angel | 22 June 2010 at 18:44
OH, dear -- forgot the verification word! Do love the poppies -- one of my favorite, and how nice of them to fill in for Hortensia. They're so cheery -- must plant some seeds next year. Or I wonder if you do them in the fall? How lucky you were to have them simply appear!
Posted by: jeanie | 22 June 2010 at 00:09
How I do love poppies -- I must grow some next year. So cheery. Glad at least something lovely replaced the hortensia.
Posted by: jeanie | 22 June 2010 at 00:06
Serendipity! Enjoy it!!!!
Posted by: Yoli | 21 June 2010 at 20:15
what a beautiful accident. : )
xo
Posted by: christina | 21 June 2010 at 17:33
I'd say...especially when your weeds look like that.
Posted by: Stephanie | 21 June 2010 at 00:51
Very pretty shots of flowers, it makes me long for them to bloom here.
Posted by: Ann Flower | 20 June 2010 at 09:30
Leave them!!!
And the BEE.
Oh poppies are so photogenic. Miss you so much especially today. Hope you are well. Love you and your wildflowers!!! xoxo
Posted by: g | 20 June 2010 at 06:12
Gorgeous flowers and photo!
Posted by: Helen | 20 June 2010 at 00:12
I just planted poppies this year. They look so fragile but are so tough. Wonderful creatures!
Posted by: Maia | 19 June 2010 at 22:14
I've often found that unexpected treasures are the brightest.
These are beautiful!
Posted by: Mary H. | 19 June 2010 at 18:19
Oh, I love your wildflower garden. We have something similar in front of our dining window, but really I think it is where Jim sticks any seeds or plants he doesn't know where to put. He says it is the birds that place them there. It is wild and right now has poppies almost ready to bloom.
Posted by: Marilyn | 19 June 2010 at 15:35
Definitely leaving them!
Mother Nature at work. :-)
Posted by: Merisi | 19 June 2010 at 14:38
You and I seriously think alike. Leave 'em for now. If I had a dime for everything that sandblasting here destroyed, I'd be rich. There is a certain chaotic beauty to letting nature take its course afterwards. Not everyone would see it that way, bit I do.
Posted by: Diana Strinati Baur | 19 June 2010 at 12:35