Planting up the urn

Newly planted in the large urn

Donna and I visited Waresley Park Garden Centre for a light lunch today. After munching ham and cheese toasties and swigging our excellent coffees we spent a short time browsing around.

I bought a new hose for the garden and a trailing Petunia. Donna bought some chilli pepper plants and a Father's Day card.

Back at home I planted up the Petunia, a white Verbena, and a couple of Mesembryanthemums in a large earthenware urn we have in a patio outside the back door. It will be interesting to see how they develop over the summer. Hopefully they'll put on quite a show. I have no idea what colour the Mesembryanthemums will be, they came from a mixed tray and are not in flower yet.

The wonderful thing about organic systems is that they grow all by themselves. It will involve almost no effort on my part. Perhaps I'll need to apply a little fertiliser, enough water if rain is short, and cut off some dead flowers. The plants will just grow and flower abundantly.

What would we do without organic systems? We are organic ourselves, of course. We are far more capable than any robot and we are not in short supply. Maybe there are even too many of us in this world! Like all life forms, people are just amazing. Provide air, water and food and we multiply over time; we think and invent and write and make things, we interact in society, we are utterly amazing.

Perhaps the most amazing thing of all is that we can take one another so much for granted. We should treasure one another and rejoice daily. Truly, familiarity breeds contempt. Sadly we see wars and struggles all around. People can be unkind, thoughtless, greedy and arrogant. But we are truly amazing even so.

So let's remember that we are amazing and love and respect one another as we should.

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