Accessible Gardening: #21 Practical Matters for Phsically Challenged Gardeners, 2 by Amargia

Amargia wrote:
The Charles Bonnet Syndrome was terrifying at first. I thought I was experiencing senile dementia and checked myself into the Behavioral Medicine ward of the hospital. I was seeing snakes everywhere. I was apparently deluding myself when I told people I was not that scared of snakes. :-) When I started seeing Boeing 747 sized rattlesnakes flying through the air, it became funny instead of scary. The part of the brain responsible for the illusions does not do prospective the way the eye can. There is a Grandma Moses point of view to them. That enables me to tell what is physical truth from what is illusion by simply turning my head. If the prospective does not change, it is an illusion. That test is, of course, unnecessary with flying rattlesnakes. lol. It is amazing what we can adapt to, isn\'t it?
It has rained all day today. No rain dances were needed. I said the magic words yesterday. \"Nadi, will you please do the mowing tomorrow?\" We suspect Nadi is a very good rain dancer.
I tried to avoid yellow iris putting together your package. I can\'t say what colors they will be. My mother had them in every shade imaginable. There are about a baker\'s dozen. We finally have a manageable number of iris thanks to the Bread of Life Mission store and five individuals. Thanks for taking some off our hands. I hope they turn out to be colors you like. There must be an iris conspiracy going on. My niece gave me some fragrant plants. She says the flowers smell like root beer. Surprise. Surprise. They are iris. They must be the cultivar \'Gingerbread\' or its parent species. :-)
The canna are beginning to bloom, but it is the dependable marigolds and Indian blankets that are providing garden color at the moment.
http://gardenofpraise.com/art43.htm

Pix 1 Indian Blankets
Pix 2 Marigolds