Showing posts with label peony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peony. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Garden happiness.




Succulents from Earth Flowers.


My first harvest of Lacinato Kale.


See the potatoes growing in our compost bin?


Foxglove bud.


Chris raised the rain barrel which makes it so much easier to use. The flow is better and it's easier to get the watering can under the spigot.


Yarrow.


Echinacea.


Callirhoe.


Butterfly milkweed.


Peony.


Foxglove.


Precious little mushroom bursting forth through the mulch.


First broccoli harvest!

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Ahhh, Glorious Nature.


We had a few thunderstorms last week and then it turned really hot this weekend. I think the rain/heat combo made the yard explode with growth. Things are popping up and budding out like crazy. I woke up Sunday morning to probably 50 blooms on my clematis. Gorgeous!!! This is the time of year when I'm just blown away by how so incredibly AWEsome nature is. It's so neat to watch seedlings break through the hard earth, plants that looked crispy enough to think dead come fully back to life and buds of beautiful flowers unfurl and bloom into brilliantly shaped and colored flowers. We are beginning to eat out of the garden, the wooded area behind the house is filling in and there is a pair of finches building a nest in the fern on the front deck. So happy...


Bought some brightly colored annuals for the back patio.




The Tennyson tree is so happy to be back outside.


Can you see Chris in the background working on yet another project? He's making a cool gate to finish off the fence. I can't wait to see what he comes up with!




Can you believe how gorgeous!?!




Lettuce.


Comfrey.


Broccoli.


Fennel.


Radish.


Peony. Any day now!


Our new wrap-around couch for the front deck! Now all I have to do it make cushions which will require me to learn how to use my sewing machine. Chris purposefully made the couch long enough so he could sleep on it. He loves sleeping outside.


Front deck.


Bella Kitty.