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I live in an apartment, so in the growing season we have a porch-full of plants. Container gardening at it's best! My son was born in fall of 2011, so things a bit hectic lately. Oh and I've recently found a new passion, kokedama. I'm also addicted to planted aquaria.

Our house pt 2
I went back to the house to plant our peach tree, and decided to take a shot of the flowering crab.  This picture can't replace the real thing, its very impressive.  Tomorrow might be an even larger flowering. Here is the peach tree.  A semi-dwarf Co...

Our house!
We closed on the house Friday!  Sean and I had food poisoning on Wed, so we are not completely recovered yet.  This week is cleaning, planting, and then we move on the weekend.  This is the view of the back  Three different colors of Norway maples  T...

Less than 3 days!
There are less than 3 days until we own a house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  My last blog post about the garden plans have changed, we are thinking of a different place and 4 raised beds eventually.  There was an amazing deal for fruit trees, so when we bought on...

Planning a raised bed garden
Its getting closer to being a done deal (only 2 weeks has passed, but it seems like an eternity)... so in the meantime, I've been planning out the garden so I can have the first bed in the correct place the first year.  I will also have to build the ...

Best birthday present ever!
Well, its a 'pending' present... I don't want to say more just in case things fall through, but I might get a real garden just in time for planting!