I recently visited Flower World – one of the best plant nurseries ever – if you ask me. I had a couple of things I was looking for and then these hit me – so beautiful and so explosive with their color, texture and form.
Bam!
Look at me!
Here I am!
And my leaf throwing girl too! She had such fun and can now even say “flower world” as cute as a 2 1/2 year old can. Training her young!
This weekend I had a fabulous garden helper with me to water some new plants I put in (you can’t see it yet, but it’s a rhododendron there!).
She did a great job!
I totally have Spring fever and I’m ready to see some Spring growth, but I thought I take a moment to look at the winter garden. It’s a good chance to see how everything is going and how the “garden bones” are stacking up. It’s been ~2.5 years since we put in the new gardens and things are coming along nicely.
All of those smaller shrubs in the new garden area are growing well and are going to fill in the area in the next few years. I’m so happy we did this garden renovation and added on. The lawn is much better and easier to mow, the gardens make sense now, and there is just that intangible feng-shui about it all. It just feels right.
And, of course, there are some really lovely things happening in the garden right now with bright brilliant colors, textures, flowers, patterns, forms and shapes. As beautiful as it is, I’m ready for Spring to be here!
Dear Summer,
To even think that 6 weeks of summer was enough of a real summer is absolutely ludicrous! We have waited through your cloudy 60’s days, patiently, with little cursing of your name. But, now I’ve had enough!
Good riddance summer, hello my new favorite season (any season that is not summer, please stand up). You are just so dang short and I’ve had it! While other parts of the country is sweltering in 4 months of 90-100 degree weather, we are freezing our pa-tooties off in these parts. Can’t you even it out a bit? We put up with one of the wettest springs EVER last year, then one of the soggiest coldest late spring/early “summer” months – again!
I’m done – bring on Fall – bring on the pumpkins, the cool mornings (at least I expect them during this time of the year), the changing leaves, the breeze in the air.
Sincerely,
Already prepared to be in perpetual Spring all next “summer”, due to Karma
P.S. Plus, the pink Anemones are amazing right now. And it’s true, Geranium ‘Rosanne’ (blue/purple flower) just keeps going and going and going. So glad I picked up more of that!
Despite the cold, rainy Spring, our garden has been thriving and growing since the warm weather arrived in earnest in August. Our little sugar snap peas have been the hit of the garden with one little garden girl. In the evenings, we would come home and take our nightly trek out to the garden patch.
Mo’
Mo’
Mo’
Is the sounds I would hear, having Sara ask for more and more peas.
She would climb up into the garden boxes and get some for herself, if I wasn’t getting them fast enough. I would try to stick a flower behind her ear, it never lasted very long, but she would request it each night.
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