A June Garden

Since the pandemic and parenthood we spend a lot more time at home. Work and life obligations slowed our excitement for blogging, but we’ve been recently inspired. A perk of being homebodies is finding bits of time to work in the garden.

Years ago a friend suggested we share more of our garden stories. We found an old (2010 era) Canon Powershot and a took a few hurried Sunday photos. Every season our garden shifts and changes in beautiful and heartbreaking ways. In post-freeze January, city code enforcement came out to share a complaint about our yard. The audacity of whoever sent them! In a rage, we cut the entire front yard back. Now all the brown and dead botanicals are flourishing, full of life.

The bananas are coming in and the crocosmia has finally bloomed after two years. Swallowtails and monarchs have been fluttering through making their own garden paths. The heat is on a thou-wow and early mornings and evenings are the only sensible times to do yard work.

The essence of a New Orleans garden in June.