05/27/2024 – Around Colehaus

Flowers galore, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Flowers galore, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com

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:

Azalea, variety Exbury, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Azalea, variety Exbury, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Azalea, variety Exbury Orange variant, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Azalea, variety Exbury Orange variant, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Dianthus and Dusty Miller, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Dianthus and Dusty Miller, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Trillium and Blue Hosta, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Trillium and Blue Hosta, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Columbine and Bumblebee, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Columbine and Bumblebee, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com

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 . . .

White-tipped Columbine, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
White-tipped Columbine, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com

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

Pale pink Columbine, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Pale pink Columbine, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com

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!

Blooming chives with Bumblebee friends, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Blooming chives with Bumblebee friends, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
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Jacks and Mr. G, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com

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.

Mr. G, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Mr. G, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Old Arborvitae flower bed, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Old Arborvitae flower bed, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com

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.

Purple Rhododendron, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Purple Rhododendron, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Salvia, variety Hot Lips, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Salvia, variety Hot Lips, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Coreopsis from seed, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Coreopsis from seed, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Pink creeping Phlox, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Pink creeping Phlox, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Neighboring Clematis and red maple, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com
Neighboring Clematis and red maple, May 2024 © Colehauscats.com

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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Where's Mr. G today? © Colehauscats.com
Where’s Mr. G today? © Colehauscats.com

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

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11 Responses to 05/27/2024 – Around Colehaus

  1. Memories of Eric and Flynn says:

    All of the flowers are beautiful. We have visited Exbury Gardens a few times in the spring to see the wonderful displays of azaleas and rhododendrons. We have some from there in our own garden, but they are mostly gone over now.
    I do hope Mr. G’s family do take the cats with them.

  2. You have gorgeous flowers! We hope Mr G’s family takes them when they move.

  3. Rene S says:

    Your yard is amazing!

  4. da tabbies o trout towne says:

    G, eye just bout dinna see ewe either! eye due hope yur peepulz
    take ewe N jacks N yur brother, we all will miss seein ewe…N best
    fiszhez in yur new home.

    de gardin round de houz oh cole iz de BEST ….trooth….de gurl
    sayz her planted english daisy and dusty miller for her mom in
    her momz gardin…..within 24 hourz…..rabbit had helped hiz self
    two de plantz, ate em all, rite down two de soil….knot happee campurrz

    😼😼😼🐟‼️

  5. Humans….
    Your flowers are so beautiful; they just glow.
    And I’m hotly envious of your yellow trilliums.

  6. 15andmeowing says:

    Beautiful blooms. You could have garden tours of your yard. How sad Mr. G to have to go through another move. XO

  7. What a bubbly post this is with exceptional flowers and all so lush and healthy!
    No wonder that Mr. G and Jacks love to come over into paradise.
    Indeed, let’s hope that they will be taken to Idaho.
    It is heart breaking when pets are left behind…
    Hugs,
    Mariette + Kitties

  8. We once had neighbors that moved away and their two cats (brother and sister) with kittens were left behind:https://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2020/10/kitties-that-adopted-us.html
    What a joy it was to view your blooming garden today!
    Hugs,
    Mariette + Kitties

  9. mcmcneil1 says:

    Maybe you can’t take in another cat, but Mr G seems to be ok being a garden ornament.

  10. Your garden is a delight! I do hope the family takes the cats with them and all will be well with them.

  11. meowmeowmans says:

    The yard at Colehaus looks so beautiful with everything blooming! We are sad that Mr. G and Jacks will have to deal with another move. I do hope that actually happens, though, and that the family loves and cares for them.

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