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May 28, 2008 | 7:42 PM PST
Tag: rescue plants
Went by my Daddy's today and got some petunias and black eyed susans. Came home and planted them out, then it started to rain. Hooray! You know you are fanatical when you get the umbrellas out so you can walk around and look at your plants. That is just what we did. Lowes has reduced priced plants and here is a list of what we have managed to snap up:Salvia Pink Friesland, oranges and lemons blanketflower, marigolds (50cents a 6 pack),moonshine yarrow, catchfly, cardonna meadow sage, beard tongue, and lyre leaf sage. A lot of the perennials were $1 each. We got a 2 graft rose bush which blooms 2 colors. However, it has buds but no blooms at the moment. So we have no idea what colors it will be. Wayne wants me to go back in the morning and snatch up as many of those reduced priced plants as possible. He says he will find places to plant them (you see why I love this man so much?) Oh ,and a white latrius (sp?) was $1. It is a big healthy clump and hasnt bloomed yet. So this evening, when the rain let up to a sprinkle, out we went and planted. I will get pictures and post when the weather permits. Yall have a good night.
May 27, 2008 | 11:25 AM PST
Tag: malva
Here is a picture of one of my malvas. I do love them. Several of my hollyhocks are getting buds and I am so excited to see what color they will be. We started most of them from seed last year. In the above picture you can see my neighbors hydrangea sticking through the fence. I love that!
It is getting hot, folks! Lots of baby tomatoes and peppers. My zinnias have buds but no blooms yet. Things are right on the verge of busting out!
Yall have a great gardening day!
May 26, 2008 | 7:21 AM PST
Tags: hydrangea , yard art
I am happy to report that everything is growing and looking lovely. One of our hydrangeas is blooming.
The new bed by the pool is filling up and will get cedar mulch today.
At the end of the pool, we put 2 "palm trees"--actually rescue house plants from Walmart, but they look good.
On my fence, I have 2 jars filled with water. I am sticking clippings and cuttings in them to see if I can get something to root.
I have done a few crafts:
And I want to ask Hillbilly Bill Mitchell if cats can read--
My herbs are doing good and I have a 5 foot tall coreopsis. I have never grown coreopsis before and my daughter calls it the big weed.
Peace and love and Yall have a safe and wonderful Memorial Day!
May 15, 2008 | 8:17 PM PST
Tags: new beds , lilly , zinnia
As I have mentioned on previous blogs, Wayne has been hard at work in our yard, cleaning up and sprucing up. Here are some pictures. The first is of the overgrown azaleas that he pruned up (they were getting snakey looking). We will kill off the ivy-english and poison- and probably plant some annuals under there for color.
Next is a lovely pink lilly growing up through the butterfly bush (which is getting tiny buds!!!)
Next is the bed beside the driveway. Once it had only stella daylillies, which was fine, but I needed more. Now we have the lillies, salvia, pepper, tomato,zinnias, a rose,yarrow,hollyhock and an angel trumpet.
Next is a picture of the fence line that had the daylillies, monkey grass and cannas. It took Wayne a while to get it thinned out and cleaned up. It isnt mulched yet and may be hard to see, but it looks so much better and will get more plants as the summer goes on. On the other side, you can see that we will be making another bed by the side of the pool
Last is a nice blue salvia that something (dog, cat , wind) tore about half of it off. We saved a piece and stuck in the ground and it looks like it has taken.
I am calling this "The Year of the Zinnia". Last year we started some from seeds. They were mostly pink and lavender with a few orange and yellows. I would deadhead them and drop the seeds in all of my beds. And during spring clean up this year, I scattered packs of seeds. I have so many seedlings. Some are even in the grass. Oh I can not wait to see their pretty little faces. Mostly I grow lilliput and thumbelina. Even with those types, they grow really big.
Peace and love and happy gardening.
May 13, 2008 | 8:48 PM PST
I had a wonderful lunch with my sister, neice and daughter. Came home and looked at my seedlings.....pretty sorry looking. I got moody about it. Fortunately my husband (hero) came home and saw my despair. He planted me about 20 hollyhock seeds and predicted they would be up by Sunday. He then finished cleaning the daylily/canna bed and planted me 2 roses--Double Delight and Liberty Bell. He had already planted my Trumpeter rose. Oh and he gave me a lovely coral carpet rose for Mothers day and I found coral petunias to plant around it. It is sweet.
Ok.....so he is digging up daylillies and tossing them aside. This is Ok because he says we will get a pink butterfly bush to plant in the open spaces. Then he picks up the shovel and starts to clean up a space by the pool. "What are you doing?" I ask. "I am planting a daylily by the pool" he replies. YIPPEE!!!!!!! I had been asking him if we could make flower beds around the pool with heat tolerant plants....maybe..maybe not..we'll see... And then tonight he did it, just like it had been his idea. I love that man. We ended up with 5 daylillies out there and that is a great start to a beautiful new bed. I will try to post some pix tomorrow.
Good Night and Sleep Tight.
May 8, 2008 | 7:46 PM PST
Tags: pets , iris , birdhouse
What wonderful weather we have had. I have a jasamine on a pergola in my back yard and it is loaded with blooms.
I have another iris blooming.
I think that one may be Wayne's favorite. He put up a decorative birdhouse for me last weekend. It is on a pole and in front is a chickenwire cage with a climbing rose on it.
We talk a lot about the problems we have with squirrels. Well, I have 2 of the worlds most ferocious squirrel dogs. If one so much as thinks about coming down the tree, these 2 are on it quick, fast and in a hurry.
First is Pablo, the wonder dog. He can leap over small piles of leaves in a single bound and wishes he could climb trees. He can not abide a squirrel.
Then there is Peter Marie. She can not abide a squirrel either and chases them with wild abondon. She doesnt know she isnt a squirrel dog and we have never told her different. She also doesnt know that she COULD climb a tree, should the notion hit her.
Tomorrow I am going to look at some roses with a girlfriend. Hope we find one or two. I havent grown many since we moved but I am getting the rose bug again.....what can you do?
Talk to yall later.
May 7, 2008 | 10:48 AM PST
Tags: iris , amaryllis , rainbow
We had a nice shower the other afternoon, then the sun came out.
I am often humbled and awestruck by the beauty of nature and the Wonder of God.
Here are a couple more irises that have finally bloomed for me this year.
Finally, a red amaryllis.
Wayne rooted a few hydrangeas yesterday and I am still watching my seeds sprout. I threw out a lot of zinnia seeds and am happy to report that they are coming up everywhere. I also have a few balsom coming back. Those things can get weedy at times, but mine are under control so far. I have only 1 bed left to clean up and I think I will go do that now.
Yall have a good day and see yall soon.
May 4, 2008 | 8:05 PM PST
As we wondered around our yard this morning, I found myself enchanted by colors and textures. We grow parsley for butterflies and it is blooming.
This lives in an old plastic pot under the jasamine covered pergola. I made a 'candleer' to put under here and at night it has a soft glow.
It was beautiful last night and smelled wonderful as the jasamine is starting to bloom.
This little orange gerber daisy always catches my eye.
The african blue basil is starting to take off and will soon be covered by bees.
On the front porch I have a basket with fuschia and begonia. It was so pretty this morning.
Finally, a rose seemed to pop up and say good morning.
Hope yall have a happy week.
May 2, 2008 | 8:56 AM PST
Tags: iris , roses , birds
I am indeed a happy fairy. I got to visit with family and friends this week and even work outside a little. My seedlings are coming up and everything is so green and pretty. I bought some pentas, lantana, pink sage, purple salvia and white periwinkles for my front beds and got that planted. I have a few more irises that have bloomed.
I also have a few rose blooms.
The above rose was one of those $4 packages from Walmart labeled as a 5 petal red rose. What a surprise! We will keep it.
The other morning I had my sprinkler on and red bird came for a shower.
Hope yall can see him up on top of the fence. Every time I run the sprinkler, he comes for a bath.
My jasamine is starting to bloom and the back yard smells heavenly. Yesterday afternoon I stayed outside and crafted and was visited by so many birds and even a good many butterflies came flittin' through.
I started more seeds yesterday-cosmos,gaillardia,bl
ackeyed susan and of course, more zinnias. I found some zinnia seed called fruit smoothie. They are supposed to be purple and orange. Sounds pretty.
See yall later.
