My pickings at 5 a.m. this morning Greetings on this sweltering hot Saturday! It's 82 in the house, it looks like we are peaking out at 98.7 for the day outside, with 116 in the greenhouse with the doors open. I've never experienced heat like this for this amount of time, I'm not sure I'm …
Continue reading Hot Temps….Horrible Rust…..Early Pickings & Health Stuffs
Happy Saturday afternoon my friends! I hope all is well with you. I'm super happy to report it's officially summer vacation. Things are looking great in the perennial patch, as well as the main garden. I was able to start the watering last night, and finished up this morning. I am so happy that I …
Continue reading Not As Much…Less Pressure….More Joy & Social Calendars
So, officially we ended up with .41 inches of rain yesterday. At one point Joe says to me "Can I coax you inside?..." I said "not yet, I only have a few more things to do, besides, I'm not DRIPPING wet"....I think the heavens took that as a challenge?! I was wet to the bone …
Continue reading Wet Pants….Time Warps….Shady Sunflowers…& Fairies
Greetings on this lovely soggy Sunday morning. As usual, I am happy to see the rain, a much needed little spritzer for the foilage, the last check an hour ago revealed a quarter of an inch. It will do wonders for the blooms in the garden. The Hungarian Poppies are doing great, producing nice big …
Continue reading Bloom Updates…..San Juan Islands…..Childhood Memories…& Clay Work
An accidental bouquet Greetings on this lovely evening - I hope your Memorial Day weekend was enjoyable. I decided to "take the day off" from gardening....of course that was a lie.....I tried to say it with a straight face....but failed! I did manage to stay mostly clean today, but I did some picking, and arranging, …
Continue reading Lies….Reality…..Sustainability…Hopes & Dreams….
My granddaughter and I collecting wild flowers on our trip to Winthrop Happy Thursday my friends, I hope all is well with you and yours. We've arrived at the end of May....goodness how time flies! Seems like yesterday I was flipping through the full color catalog of different plugs to purchase, seed catalogs, websites and …
Continue reading Thriving…..Just Getting by…..Learning…& Leakage
Loving the colors of this Spring bouquet Greetings on this soggy Wednesday morning! This rain wasn't what I was expecting, but I will certainly take it and enjoy it for now. It's actually perfect timing for the garden. Despite being home sick with a cold, I spent most of my week out putting things in …
Continue reading Perfect Timing….Spring Bouquets….Focus….& Adventure Time
Apricot Stock is coming in hot! Happy Happy Saturday my friends. I hope all is well within you and around you! It has been a whirlwind of a last few weeks. Joe and I have been dealing with the left overs of the snot fest the kids left behind two weeks ago, human bodies are …
Continue reading Colds…Unofficial Numbers….Chores….& A Much Needed Break
Happy Friday! I hope all is well with you and yours! I'm home today...with a bit of a cold. I mentioned to one of my co-workers that I had a sore throat yesterday, and that we had the grandkids over this weekend who were full of snot and goofiness, then the co-worker said it would …
Continue reading Test Results….Storms….Nature of the Beast & Smell-A-Vision
Happy Monday evening, I hope all is well in your world. It's certainly been a bit busy over here - but when isn't it busy!? The ones that made it were few, but were so beautiful! What's in the ground...? So far around 800'ish Snap Dragons - mix color & the Dark Prince from The …
Continue reading In the Ground…..In the Greenhouse….One person…& The Grands
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