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Gardens Galore & The Late August Garden

~ Gardening, Summer

“The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.”
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭40:8‬

Welcome sweet friends and Happy Solar Eclipse Day!  It was supposed to be Gardens Galore No. 6, but due to unforeseen circumstances I am unable to host the link party today.  I am greatly disappointed, but hopefully I will be able to host on September 4th.  In lieu of the party, I am sharing my garden in these waning days of August.  Last Thursday I posted about the sunflowers finally showing up with their dinner plate-sized blooms and you can see their happy faces here.  Now let’s take a look at my late August garden…

Sunflowers brighten our garden table!

The crape myrtles are still in bloom!

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Simple + Southern Sunday No. 146

~ Simple + Southern Sunday, Summer

“For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,”
‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭4:17‬ ‭

“as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”
‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭4:18‬ ‭

Coosa River Memorial Bridge architecture

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Finally, Sunflowers

~ Gardening, Outdoors, Summer

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭46:10‬

Hello sweet friends! If you have been following along this summer you know we have had sunflower issues in our garden. Our first planting of seeds never came up. My resident gardener isn’t easily defeated, so he planted a second time! As the plants began to come up, the deer had a dinner party, but they didn’t come back for seconds. Whew, what a relief, they were definitely uninvited guests! The sunflowers were standing tall, not yet blooming, when we had a really bad storm mid July. We had winds in excess of 50 mph that blew for forty minutes and were constantly changing directions. The sunflowers were completely bent over on the ground. After a few days, most of them returned to an upright position. I was thrilled they had recovered so well and last Friday we finally had those big yellow blooms! Let’s take a look…

The sunflowers are planted behind our garden area near the pasture where deer and turkeys are always roaming!

The blooms are as large as a dinner plate!

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