Rainy Birthday

Yesterday was my 25th Birthday and I had planned a nice garden party. I spent all day placing candles and potted flowers around the garden. My step dad made me some very nice benches and my Mom made some awesome pillows for them. Everything looked great and was ready for the party. Then at 6:50 ( partying starting at 7:30 ) It came a down pour! Major river running thur the back yard, soaked the candles. Luckily I was able to get the pillows inside before they got wet. It only rained for 15 mins but it was enough rain to keep us off the benches and bar stools. I moved some candles inside and placed the pillows on the couch and the floor. The one on the floor the cat took over and didn't leave it till around noon today. We did spend sometime outside. Standing. But I had a great time. Drank a little too much. but who cares! Its my birthday!
I have no pictures, b.c well... I got mad that things didn't go my way and I had to move inside and somehow I focused more on wine then pictures.

Eventful Day

It seems I always find New things in my Garden when I moving/cutting plants. Today we found a whole Mess of Garlic Chives. I knew I had Chives, but I just thought they were Chives. and I didn't realize how much I had. After we cut back an evergreen we found them.(pictures 1&2) Just a few had flowered, and I remembered reading that chives have purplish flowers not white. So I looked it up, and found that there called Garlic Chives. I also learned that you can eat the flowers and the bulb that's in the ground, along with the stems. I love a plant that you can eat all of!

Below is where I planted my Bouquet Garden seeds. I got the seeds as a free gift from the National home gardening club. The Mixture has the Following: Calendula, Sunflower, comos, Lewis Flax, Baby Snapdragon, Cornflower, Lupine, Scented Stock, Clarkia, African Dasiy, Phlox, Chinese Forget-Me-Not, Baby's Breath, Zinnia, Dephinium, Coreopsis, and Black eyed susan. I'm pretty excited about having a whole section just for cut flowers. I love to bring them inside, and share with others. I'm always taking Roses to work. I also planted some Red Poppy seeds just off the side of this picture. I can't wait!!

saturday

What a pretty day today was. We took full advantage of it. Spent all day playing around outside. We cleaned out all the weeds from the herb garden, then sprayed the rest of the weeds around the path ways. We planted the onion that was growing in our makeshift petree dish. we'll see how it grows. We also took down the bird cage and are hoping to rebuild it somewhere more pleasing to the eyes.
The mosquito's are still bad in this area. But I have something that will soon fix that... About 4 or 5 months ago, we noticed frogs were signing love songs at our pond. Then we noticed a TON of tadpoles. well today we saw a little less then a ton of baby frogs. (since the fish ate alot of the tadpoles) They are tiny things. hop'n all over the place. They'll start eating the mosquito's soon I hope. I got a picture of one. He was moving fast so its kinda blurry. I think you can get the point as to how small they are. Other then that, we just enjoyed the outside and grilled turkey dogs for lunch. what a Great day.

Growing food from Food!

Better View

one of my fans asked if I would post pictures of the whole garden. It was hard to get everything in, so there are a couple of views. Enjoy.

More Tiger lillys

Pink Tiger Lilly's

I have all different types of Tiger Lilly's. Orange, striped, yellow...but my favorite ones are the pink ones. Take a look.