05/27/2024 – Around Colehaus

Flowers around Colehaus this month worked overtime to come into bloom. So much bloomed at the same time in May, we might have a boring June ahead of us. That wasn’t how Mom planned and planted but there it is regardless. Here’s some of this month’s flowering highlights:

We’ve always had Columbine in our backyard. Mom loves them but can’t seem to grow the yellow and red variety. Lucky for us, the purple/blue reseed themselves every year.

Two years ago, Mom found a double white Columbine and she saved and replanted the seeds last year. She also sprinkled some of the seed over where the purple/blue variety comes up, thinking white and purple would be pretty growing together. Well, no white ones came up, but . . .

. . . a white-tipped purple version came up! Surely, the seed would remain true? Or did some bumblebee help?

And then, behind the white-tipped one, a pale pink version came up! You better believe Mom’s going to save the seeds from this one!

Garden supervisors Mr. G and his brother think we should stop with the flowers and give them pettings and catnip treats, which leads us to some news.

First, Mr. G’s brother’s name is Jacks which is nowhere close to “Bunny” that Mom was calling him (though he came running to the name Bunny, too).

Second, Mom talked to Mr. G and Jacks’ parents and they are wildly happy that Mr. G has become friendly since, apparently, he hid all the time since his family moved here from Idaho two years ago. Mr. G was adopted out as the only survivor from a barn cat litter and was a sickly kitten for nearly a year. You might recall it took five months before Mr. G trusted Mom. After that, Mom’s never known Mr. G to be anything but friendly, so to hear that he once wasn’t sounded odd.

Sadly, Mr. G’s family is preparing to move back to Idaho sometime in June. They assured Mom they are taking Mr. G, Jacks, and another kitty brother with them. We’d be lying if we said we one hundred percent believed this. What we are one hundred percent certain of is we cannot take in another cat, so we’re just going to have to have faith that Mr. G will go forward having a wonderful life in Idaho with his brothers, and any memory of sitting on Mom’s lap while being brushed will fade as good new memories are created.

We’ll continue to post photos of “Where’s Mr. G today?” for as long as he visits, until the day comes when he no longer comes running when he hears us in the morning, when Mom no longer sees him relaxing, waiting for attention somewhere in the backyard, and we discover he and his family have gone.

The flower bed we created after the loss of our big golden Arborvitae in December 2022, is starting to fill in and flower up. Mom’s vision was of a dedicated pollinator bed and we just might have nailed it. We should have flowers on and off up until frost.

Lastly, it doesn’t have to be about the flowers in your own yard. You can always enjoy borrowed beauty from other yards. Our neighbor grew this pretty white clematis on an oversized, old painter’s ladder which works beautiful together, but paired with their red maple and a hint of green from a small cedar as a backdrop (as is our view from our kitchen window), the image was just too gorgeous to not photograph.

Thanks for visiting us!

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There he is, guarding the new flowers like the good gardening cat he is. We almost didn’t see him!

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2023 – No post
2022 – This and That
2021 – No post
2020 – No post
2019 – No post
2018 – No post
2017 – No post
2016 – Around Colehaus
2015 – Efficiency, Tessa Style
2014 – No post
2013 – ManCat Monday
2012 – No post