Category Archives: my garden

favorite garden pictures

Yay! I have started the vegetable garden.

     Yesterday G and I stopped at a favorite nursery and while I loaded up on some lovely vegetable plants, G found flowers to replace what the wet weather and bugs destroyed in her garden.

     I now have six tomato plants, two pepper plants, a nice group of four basil plants, and four eggplants ready for the pots beside the house.  Not bad for my first load.  I also bought some Rudbeckia, lavender, and zinnias.  In a week or so I’ll go to the larger nursery we usually go to and pick up more veggies for the back garden.  I want a few more varieties of peppers, bush cucumbers,  and some early eggplants.

     I did plant some tomatoes and the basil in pots yesterday.  Today I’ll finish the job and get the flowers planted in the pots on the front porch.

     You all have a good one!

The pond lilies are opening.

And I still haven’t weeded the gardens

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When I came home all my iris were in bloom

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Dang, I really need to find some energy somewhere and weed the gardens.

Yesterday’s garden finds

 

 

 

 

 

The iris and columbine are beginning to bloom

Yes, the garden needs a good weeding.  No, I haven’t had the energy to do it.

These iris are along the driveway.

This lovely blue one is in the side garden by the sweet gum tree.

The first of the columbine plants to bloom.  I may have lost one this winter…

Yard work…

     The Curmudgeon wearing his ice filled vest to keep him cool while he mows.  It helps a lot!

A crow’s picnic?

     Sunday I looked out the window and there was a large crow in the bird bath acting rather peculiar.  Curiosity finally overcame me and I went outside to see what he was doing.  I got to the bird bath and in it I found a fried chicken leg that looked as though it had  come from the pan only minutes before.  This was not something grabbed from a trash bag.  I do believe he was rolling it around in the water to cool it enough to eat it.

     Yesterday I looked out the window and saw the crow in our Tulip poplar, eating something.  Oh, dear if it was something the dogs might find and choke on I thought I’d better go see.  He took off when I opened the back door.  I walked to the bird bath first because of the last incident.  Good thing I did.  For there in the bird bath were the remains of a small bird.  ICK!  I don’t do dead critters.

     I called The Curmudgeon outside and let him clean out the bird bath.  He started making jokes about a Crow’s hobo stew.  “Hey, he’s a green crow, he was using solar power to make his stew.”

     GAG!  “Just clean that ick out of there.”  I went inside to get away from the sick jokes.

     You all have a good one!

 

My garden makes me happy

I need to go out into my garden.

Relax. 

I need to release all the tensions of the day. 

Chill.

I need to enjoy the colors, textures, and sounds.

You all have a good one!

My pond is already shaping up

     Does this mean that I shouldn’t think about filling it in and finding homes for my Koi yet?   I do know that last year I wasn’t able to keep up with the plants we had in there.  The one was over-growing everything both inside and outside the pond.  Do not get lizard tail plants unless you have a lot of room.

     We tore the lizard tail out and pulled the pot it was in out of the pond.  I’m hoping that’s the last I see of that plant.  It was while trimming it back in August when I had my heart attack.

     My Koi look happy and healthy.  The little black one is fast catching up in size to the others.  They are mooching food already the finny pigs.  This mild winter we had has them fully ready for warm weather food. 

     You all have a good one. 

2 days of garden pictures, can you tell?

Flowers!

      I knew I had to get outside with the camera today before the crocus croaked.  These are the first ones that have opened.  If you look closely at the daffodils beside them, you’ll see buds!  Won’t be long and they will be blooming too.