Category: Gardening

  • Spring Report

    It’s April now. Spring is moving on. The Apple trees have already finished blooming mostly. They are our last spring blooming trees every year. Both the Yoshino’s and the Apple trees were very early this year. Usually the Apple trees don’t START to bloom until sometime in April. The Yoshino’s usually last until nearly April,…

  • 1st Yoshino Blossoms – March 10, 2012

    The Yoshino Cherry Trees have opened their first blossoms of 2012 today! They are early, as they were last year.  

  • Spring is really blooming

    Spring is here. Our big white blooming tree (crab apple or cherry something or other) is past peak bloom already. It still is very beautiful, just not “as much” as earlier in the week. The blossoms are dropping slowly, and the leaves are getting greener and larger day by day. I posted pictures of my…

  • Crepe Myrtles in 2011

    Our Crepe Myrtle didn’t start blooming until just this week, well, noticeable blooms forming the other week (finally!) and opening this week. It’s still a young tree, but had bloomed last year, the year before, and the year before that, and we expected it to bloom nicely this year. In Georgia it’s notable how many…

  • Spring, Spring, Doing Your Thing

    Spring is fully underway. A lot of the Daffodils in our yard are blooming or past blooming, there are still some coming up though. My Peonies are readying their blossoms more and more each day. Looks like they’ll be early this year (like many of the flowering trees were.) I have also gotten my Hosta…

  • Daffodils are now Thriving

    Our daffodil population is exploding. Every day more and more are popping up. Today our first white & yellow daffodils opened. They are lovely. It’s very hot again, and this week the humidity went to Southern Summer types. Bad enough outside, but inside it is worse right now, our A/C is totally not working (only…

  • Spring and Daffodils

    Spring and Daffodils

    . March is nearly over already. Wow! Time is moving fast. Partially that is because Spring started so very early for us this year. Our Yoshino cherry trees are usually in Peak blossoming right now. They are done blossoming, have been for awhile. Our largest of the 3 we have still has many blossoms at…

  • 2011 Spring – Chives from my Barrel Garden

    Chives from my Barrel Garden Originally uploaded by CrazyMaisy. My Chives (Onion Chives acutally) are from a long time ago, I am not exactly sure, 2004 or 2005. I had them in a ground garden first year or two, then moved them to the barrel when I got that a few years ago. They are…

  • Out & Gardening & Putting Together

    My hubby and I went out on Saturday together, with the eldest son, being 14 now, the one in charge at home. We went to Ikea and that is a one-thing for me. I mean, it’s like walking a million miles for me, so a one-thing-trip, nothing else should be done. That was not all…

  • My Garden 2009

    I have a garden started, not much yet. It’s a raised bed made with retaining wall paver sort of stuff. I’m supposed to have 4 of them eventually, just 1 for now. Tomatoes, green onions, and pole beans are what I have in it thus far. They are all growing and I got some structure…

  • Crepe Myrtle killed back, waiting for re-growth

    I’m awaiting my Crepe Myrtle to re-grow. In 2007 the April 17th-ish freeze killed back all the then Crepe Myrtle spring growth. It was rather far along with nice little leaves showing … then black goo from the two days of freezing temps. It did put out some puny leaves after that, eventually, that’s all.…

  • Garden 2008

    There is no garden in our backyard this year, again. There is supposed to be, but it just hasn’t occurred. Our backyard is overgrown right now, and we’ve had trouble with the mowers, so it’s kind of “status quo” dormant. Last year I was supposed to have a good garden. It didn’t happen. I was…

  • 36 Weeks today

    I’m 36 wks + 0 days today … I’m getting much closer, and time seems to be going faster and faster … We ordered our Birth Kit yesterday, and hopefully it will arrive before our Home Visit on June 4th (when I’ll be 38 wks 0 days.) We also need to get some other supplies…

  • April Freeze Damage

    I posted the other day about the “freezing weather” and wanted to post an update on the situation. When I looked at the back yard after the sun came up Sunday mornig it was obviously “frosty” out — the grass was not the bright verdant color that is usual of late. I waited awhile for…

  • April Freeze and Gardening 2007

    From Friday night to Saturday morning it was supposed to be really cold, just below freezing. I don’t think that actually happened on our property … yes it was cold, but not quite to freezing, from how the grass and blooms and herbs and such look in our yard(s) as of Saturday afternoon … Now…

  • Garden 2007 #1

    We are planning our garden for this 2007 Growing Season. I have 4 Red Pepper (Sweet Bell) plants to install, but still need to get the actual garden space ready. I have some peat starter kits to start the rest of my garden from seed. I hope to get those going today. I’ll make a…

  • Vanilla and Violets

    Violets We were at Harry’s the other day and I was looking through the plants outside the store, lingering and looking deeper than usual since Frankie was on the cellphone and I figured I’d just look for something to get, even though he doesn’t usually *let* me. I don’t usually press him to get a…

  • My Iris Plants

    I planted some variety of Iris a few years ago, a darkish colored bloom, but it hasn’t ever successfully bloomed. In the past years it has started to form blossom(s) in the Autumn and “first frost” kills it/them off before they open. From what I understood of my Iris plants they should have been “earlier”…

  • Deep Pink Peony

    This is one of two peony flowers to open up already. It’s early. The other peonies are still growing. This plant is producing dark pink flowers. My other peonies produce light pink flowers. This seems to be the first-time for this plant to blossom. There is at least one other that should be a first-time…

  • Spring Flowers

    These photos were all taken on April 19, 2005 Dogwood – Cherokee Chief blossoms Peony – Blossoms forming Flower – reappearing after Winter’s sleep – forget what it is, obviously a perrennial!