It was a marvelous day in June, with plenty of sunshine, the singing of birds, and the fragrance of lilacs in the air. I finished planting marigolds, created a couple more short blue trellises, touched up the patio chairs while I was at it, and put more vine seeds and orange sunflower seeds into the [...]

I spaded up a little more grass today to make room for sunflowers. By now, I have a mixture of orange tithonia torch  Mexican sunflowers, lemon queen sunflowers, vanilla ice sunflowers, mammoth Russian sunflowers, moonshine branching sunflowers, and teddy bear sunflowers. What wonderful names!  Who knew there were so many kinds of sunflowers? I sure didn’t, [...]

I’m still gardening away, planting seeds and flowers in the front yard, backyard, in pots, wherever I can find a spot that needs some color. My father helped me create a couple of lath trellises yesterday, and I think I’ll paint them lapis lazuli blue to match some of my patio chairs and tables. Blue [...]

It’s a lovely evening, with everything fresh and green, even if it’s still a little breezy. I’ve put my drawings on the back burner so I can get things planted. Things like flower seeds, coleus plants, wave petunias, tomatoes, radishes, bleeding hearts, lilies, etc. etc. The wind might have been a little hard on the orange butterfly [...]

I looked out the dining room window just a little while ago, and I could still see the iris and tulip garden, although it looks quite a bit different from yesterday. Snow seems so much more attractive in the very early days of winter, don’t you think? Maybe it’s because of all the Christmas songs… [...]