Enough with the rain🌊
when pools of rainwater cover the garden, & lavender plants look sad & sickly, you know you have too much rain😩
Category: garden
Where are my gardening tool?
Keeping everything in a bicycle basket 👩🏻🌾
I’m always looking for my gardening tools. It is a little frustrating especially when I finally find them in a bag full of leaves and weeds😱 so I figured I use my old bicycle basket and have it close by. That way I am sure I haven’t dropped them in the yard bags👍
From farm (garden) to table👩🏻🌾
From farm (garden😂) to table🌿
Sweet romance lavender
I have 2 varieties of lavender plants in my garden. The one I clipped this morning is a Sweet romance lavender. They love room to grow & a dry soil. Blooms are dense and in segments. The other lavender plants are English lavender. They are all my favorite summer plants, & I keep their blooms in water in a vase until they are fully open. I place them in bags and leave them in all my dresser drawers with my sweaters🪻
Summer flowering perennials
Nap or a stroll😻
Nap or a stroll🤔
Sunflower seeds ready to harvest🍂
I planted my mini sunflowers from seeds my neighbor gave me when I complimented their beautiful thick row of sunflowers. It takes only a few weeks for the green plant to pop out of the ground, but the flower itself takes many weeks to open up & grow its beautiful round face. I think sunflowers add a natural feel & look to a garden which I love. When they are in full bloom yellow finch, & butterflies are constant visitors🌻
Am I Going Extinct 😳
This morning I mentioned to my daughter that I have just uploaded a video on houseresortYouTube channel about : what to wear and be comfortable when you are gardening. When she casually looked at me and said “Mommy who’s going to watch that? nobody works in their garden anymore, you’re the only one who still does it ”!!! First I was surprised by her reaction, but then I realized she was saying something that I already knew. When I am out in the garden trying to make a video of something I am working on I have to stop to let the blowers and the lawnmowers calm down before I can continue with my videos. I rather have birds chirping in the background of my videos than a lawnmower. Sometimes I just sit next to my work waiting for few minutes for natural sounds to take over before I continue.
There are many hobbies that we pick up to enjoy our interests. Writing, reading, walking, fishing, and gardening, are some that my friends and family do to relax and keep the world around them in slow motion. Gardening is my favorite hobby, and photography is an important part of my everyday gardening. I start my season in early spring and I work at keeping my plants and flowers healthy until the first cold day, usually late fall. To be safe & comfortable is very important to me, and makes being outdoors a lot more enjoyable, and the long days less eventful.
Coming across snakes, angry birds, and bees is too common, and even though it does provide a great chance for an interesting nature video, it also keeps me on my toes 😳. Gardners like me depend on comfortable, protective clothes when we are out and about, and to have a hat, gloves, and a cell phone close by makes life less painful and gardening more enjoyable. If you would like to watch the video on what I recommend to wear working in the garden please go to the link below, and leave your comments, and suggestions. I will be happy to receive them. Maybe then I can tell my daughter I am not going extinct👩🏻🌾
Ice plant A Great Ground Cover
I love the idea of a perennial that is also low maintenance. Two great facts about ice plants that make this ground cover one of my favorites. They have plump green leaves all year, that spread easily in a well-drain soil. Need sunlight to bloom, and the vibrant blooms rise during the day and close up slowly as the sun goes down.
When you invest in one ice plant, you can be sure you can propagate them easily through your entire garden. All you need is a clipping and a shallow hole in the soil in a sunny spot. (as far as I can tell, squirrels don’t find them tasty)👍
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