More Plants!

I received more beautiful plants for Mother's Day!  This hanging basket of petunias hangs between the pergola and the deck.

And this beautiful plant sits on the front step.  I think I am one lucky Mom!

This is my thrift store chair that hubby painted up for me to brighten the front porch!  I made up a little pot of impatiens to set on it.

Gracie and Cali gave me this organic green tea.  It has little paper bags so you can make it as strong or as weak as you like.  Nice big cup too that says Best Nana ever!  I enjoy drinking the tea in this cup.

Excuse the messy hose.  I made up these three pots for the deck.

Here is a close up of one of those pots.

Coco didn't forget me on Mother's Day either!  She gave me this beautiful two toned pink rose and some special candy!  Oh, yes, made me a card also!  

I have gotten a start on drying chives.  If it ever stops raining long enough I will dry more.  Thanks for visiting.  Happy Gardening and come again!

Plants!!

It is that time of year when I can't resist buying new plants!  This is a beautiful Columbine.

My Sungold tomato plant.  Wanted to be sure I got one!

I love geraniums!  I think these are the same size pots but one is larger than the other.

Those geraniums will go on the chairs by the garden gate.  If the nights get too cold yet I will bring them in the house.

Of course, besides the geraniums I had to buy more plants.

I bought another red geranium to set on the bird bath stand in the garden.   Will have to cut off the hook!  I dug out blackberry roots that came up again and put them in the five gallon pails in the garden area.  They are thornless and read that I am suppose to be able to grow them in pots.  We didn't care much for eating the blackberries but the blackberry jelly was sure good so what have I to lose if I try growing them this way!

I was just about out of my homade bread so had to get busy and bake some.  I got this recipe from my good friend, Carol, a long time ago when she served me some in Pt. Huron, MI. where we use to live.  Thanks Carol for sharing this delicious recipe!

Happy Mother's Day to all the Mothers!!  I hope you all have a wonderful day!

That and This!

First Asparagus tastes so good!  I had enough for a couple of meals and roasted it.  Yum!

I defrosted my freezers and found lots of packages of raspberries I need to use up before the fresh ones start so made a pie.  I have not been making very many pies this year due to lack of energy from Lyme Disease. (Well, maybe a little laziness too!)

My new strawberries are doing well.  The instructions say to  cut off the blossoms until July.  They are everbearing plants so should get a few berries after that this year.

This is the cover I keep over them so that Coco does not eat them or pull them out!

My Sugar Peas grew in spite of the fact that I forgot to water them for awhile after I planted them!

I forgot to shut the garden gate and of course Coco took that opportunity to sneak in and eat the top off this one asparagus!  

We had visitors today!  Gracie is playing the piano for Nana and Papa!

Cali is learning to play also.  I love to play my piano and it makes my heart happy to see they are learning too.

Time for a little Barbie Doll attention now.  I need to watch the garage sales for more Barbie clothes.  I don't have the patience to sew those little things!  Thanks for visiting!!!

Growing at Last!!

The weather the past couple of days has been so nice and things are starting to grow!  This is the flower/raspberry bed.

I cut the Clematis back and it is growing.  Can you see it towards the top of the picture?

Spearmint came back!

Chives are doing well!  Can't wait for those pretty lavender blossoms!

I was going to throw this little bench out but Sue talked me into keeping it so found a place in the garden to put it.

So far the new strawberry plants are doing well!

Comfrey came back again.

The Chandelier Pear tree is in bloom by the deck!  We have a lot of them around the area.  Wondering if I am allergic to the blossoms!

The blossoms on the peach tree are opening up!!  I love the pink color!

This is one of the Asian Pear trees starting to bloom.

Coco patiently waiting for me to get in the recliner to rest so she can get on my lap!  Thanks for visiting!

Rain, rain and more rain!

Rain, rain and more rain!!  We sure have gotten enough of it lately.  Better rain than snow I guess although we have had a little of that also.  This was a path through my flowers but now it is a river.  It will dry up quickly once this rain stops!

Daffodils are about the only thing we have blooming in our yard.  I wish I had some of those sweet little crocuses.  Maybe next year!

This is my newly planted strawberry bed.  I understand that strawberries are pretty hardy but I am taking no chances!  I cover them almost every night!

I don't know if you can see the blue on this bird or not but it has been a real treat to have this bluebird come visit our yard a few times this year as we no longer have a bird feeder to feed the birds.

They are gone!!  Those overgrown bushes are gone.  Now to decide what to put in there and get them planted.

A beautiful rose to brighten my day from my secret admirer!  I love my secret admirer!!  Like you I am looking forward to spring!  Hang in there friends!!

Changes!!!

It is the time in our life when we have to downsize things to do in our backyard!  If I had energy and time I would have the whole back yard planted to veggies, herbs, flowers and fruit but I don't!  So the rose bush circle was one of the things that came out and grass seed planted.  Sue's friend and her son came over and took three of our rose bushes for her yard and helped us for awhile.  We appreciated their help!

Here is Sue hard at work digging out the flowers behind the house.  Took out part of the sidewalk also.  Grass seed planted.

Mike is working at putting in a divider where the sidewalk and flower bed ends now.

Here is our supervisor hard at work overseeing everything!  He does have an excuse as he has neuropathy and a pinched nerve.  Besides every job needs a boss!

Craig is taking some junk out in the wheelbarrow.  Looks like we have another boss on the deck but she was put to work also!

Melissa and Gracie are weeding around the peach tree.  I think I may lose my peach tree.  She found some gold gelatin type stuff at the base.  Could that be the peach tree borer??  What should I do?????

Cali is weeding around the dwarf sweet cherry tree!

The bird bath was moved over into the corner of the veggie garden by the dinner bell.  I hope to put some plants in it.

The water barrel was brought out.  This is the rose circle seeded with the grass seed.  I hope all these areas that were seeded will grow grass soon as I have to put Coco on a leash to take her out or she plods through them leaving her footprints and the dirt on her paws!  We are use to just opening the door and letting her in the back yard because we have a fence.

Sue took one of the bird houses home and one was not good enough to keep.  This one was put out in the raspberry/flower bed section .  It is white and when we replace the bird house with a new one it will be some color so that it shows up better against the white fence.

Another view of the bird house but also this shows the area left for my veggies, flowers and herbs.  I have another 4x4 box I planted new strawberries in just recently.  We sure do appreciate all our kids did for us to help with this!!

I am working at decluttering inside also.  I have a service for six set of Noritake China that I can count on one hand the number of times I have used them.  I just do not entertain fancy when I have someone over so it is going to Elizabeth when they come to visit this summer!  Well, that is the changes so far and here's hoping I can keep up to the rest!  

Spring!

 We are having a hard time keeping up these days due to Bob's pinched nerve.  I am getting things done little by little.  I planted a row of mixed lettuces in the cold frame this week!

The chives are up!  That is a sure sign of spring!

I think these bushes have grown too large and they aren't the kind we can trim back now.  I think they should be replaced!  What do you think???  I thought maybe replace with three of those big hostas.  What would your suggestions be??????

I finally finished this lap quilt!  I flipped up one corner so that you could see the back.