Our deck as a seed store and beauty salon. A couple weekends ago the Grandkids harvested Hibiscus seeds which they were hoping to sell. Ally evidently decided she would have better luck selling seeds if she got her hair done.
Category Archives: Gardening
This Weekend
Nova was away visiting family so I was left to fill the void in her absence and spent time with the kids (doing what I wanted to of course). We went out to eat a couple times, did some shopping for garden supplies and gardening hats, visited a cool nursery, drank limeades and worked in the garden in 109 degree heat.
Neighbor’s Mimosa Tree
Is in full bloom and covered in butterflies.
Vegetables
This Spring, shortly after the bunny ate one of the tomato and the lone pepper plant we replanted them. Here they are today along with the tomato plant he didn’t eat. I should have set up some better cages/support. Right now they are just tied off to stakes.
Hanging Basket
Hanging basket (can’t recall what the flower is) that will probably die a slow miserable death.
Robin Update
Filling in The Bald Spots
Yesterday we bought and planted a few perennials to fill in some bald spots. There’s no rhyme or reason to our garden. We really don’t pay attention to plant colors, heights etc… See a plant we like we find a bare spot and put it in the ground. Very minimal soil preparation also. Only the hardiest of plants survive here.
Above is a yellow Coneflower by the name of “Big Sky Harvest Moon”. Below are Bee Balm “Grand Marshal” and “Gardenview Scarlet” and Dianthus “Floral Lace Perl”.
Strawberries
Years ago when I was growing vegetables I also planted a bed of Strawberries. Later the Strawberry bed was converted to a flower bed but I left the Strawberries in place. The Strawberry plants weave their way around Black-Eyed Susan, Coneflower, Russian Sage and more.
I usually just snack on the berries while I’m working in the yard and that’s about the extent of it. This morning the Daughter and Grand-daughter decided to go harvest some.
Missing Vegetable Plants
We haven’t planted vegetables in years but I decided to have the Grandkids plant a few. We planted 2 tomatoes and 1 pepper. One of the Grandsons went to inspect the plants today and discovered one of the tomatoes and the pepper plants missing. Evidently our resident bunny got to them.
I put a guard around the remaining tomato.
Dianthus
This one lone Dianthus (Sweet William) has survived several years when others we’ve planted haven’t and it looks great.
Grandson Blake brought us this Marigold he potted at some school Earth Day event at the zoo. He helped me plant it in our garden.
