Staking and Stalking

Doug has been staking his plants, which are now tall enough to need a place to climb. Specifically, the Pea Tee-Pee, is his current project. He has tied each string to the base of a pea plant. Not sure how that will work out, but I'm hoping that not many plants get pulled out by the wind storms we've been having lately.

You can even see the staked grape in the lower left corner

 So that's the staking.

Now onto the stalking. Each week, I've been noting flowers that are blooming. Usually at least twice daily, I can be found checking out each of my flowering plants. This is not new - at each of our houses where I've tried landscaping, I would be "surveying the estate" (as one amusing neighbor put it). I wonder, though, what my plants think of this over-attention.

The globe allium, almost (!) in bloom

Do they feel stalked? Pressured?

The verbascum, looking lovelier every day

Maybe, like my kids, they just enjoy the attention. At any rate, I'm not going to stop stalking them anytime soon. The "constitutionals" are bright points in my day - especially when taken with a child or two to help point out what's different and beautiful today.