Umbrella’s For Your Plants

And They Work Too

Photo by Susan Payton © 2026

Umbrella’s for you plants, and they work too. What will they think of next ?

They are suppose to shade your pots, under the blazing sun. They are predicting a hot dry Summer in Delaware, this year, and I thought I better do something, so I looked on the internet, and this is what I found.

Under the umbrella's back in the corner, there you will find my lime tree, two ever bearing strawberries, and the blackberry plant I asked for a refund for. The blackberry plant arrived in such bad condition, but I took a chance on it, and it is growing and thriving.

I have so many blackberries this year, I had to clean my freezer out. I had strawberries for June 2022. Since they were four years old, I threw them out, and I will be more conscientious about using them more quickly.

I plan to make smoothies out of them, and make muffins with the fresh fruit in them. We will see how it works out.

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I will use these delicious looking strawberries before they are four years old.

Back to my umbrella’s, they worked so I purchased some more umbrella’s. And this is what my patio garden looks like today.

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This is what it looks like today, the umbrella’s worked so well, I bought one for every plant on my patio.

So grateful for my 76 followers on Simple Gardening.

I am accepting new writers, however, read the guidelines, in the welcome article before you submit an article to me.

Let me review them for just a moment.

1. No links — To your other articles, or to your blog or website, or to anyone else’s articles.
2. No shouts outs. — This is a gardening publication, not a place to promote your friends or their articles.
3. Original articles only. — I just received an article, and they had edited the title and they had shout outs, and links.

That is not what I consider an original article.

An original article is one written just for Simple Gardening. To share your gardening experience, or make you laugh as Sunita Chakraborty, recent article has done.

I will end this article the way I end all my articles as long as the United States is in any conflict at home or abroad.

Please Pray For Peace

Please Stop The Violence

Till Next Time

Susan