Or, perhaps I should say "Should've Been Appearing" in the Wildly Abandoned Garden (henceforth to be referred to as the W.A.G.), since half the cast seems to have dropped out of the show at the very last minute!
All those huge rudbeckia heads that were ready to unfurl?
Gone!
All those gorgeous liatris stalks that were just beginning to fluff out?
Vanished!
There should have been a ton of these pretty little cornflowers in bloom at this point. Not a trace.
Gaura and gazania? All decapitated, and mostly defoliated.
Just about the only thing we do have in abundance are these little hoof prints! I did mention, didn't I, that all bets were off once the babies arrived?
Of course, this isn't really the whole picture. As you can see in the picture of the full bed above, the cosmos and zinnias are still going great guns, and there are many succulents, native shrubs and deer resistant perennials throughout the Cantina Garden that are still doing just fine. Plus there is an absolute ton of milkweed that reseeded itself from one little plant a year or two ago. The deer haven't
touched that.
They do, however, have an army of assistants who are doing their diligent best to take care of that task for them! I will leave them to it. The payoff in winged splendor will be well worth the sacrifice.
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