The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow. ~Author Unknown

Monday, June 7, 2010

Well it has been awhile since my last post!  I just have had so many things going on lately!  We just found out that we are having a baby girl and now I feel like it's a race to get everything done before she gets here!  In the mean time though, my garden has been a-growing!

Here are my show stopping elephant ears!  One pot has less shoots and larger ears, and one pot has more shoots, smaller leaves.  I don't know why, same bulbs from Wal-Mart!






















Here's a pic of my hand with the leaf so you can see how big they are!
Here's one of a bloom on a caladium.  I had no                           Row of alternating red then white verigated
idea they bloomed and it looks like a little peace                          caladiaum.
lily bloom to me.






















This is a photo of one of the black magic elephant ears my mom gave me.  They are supposed to get 5' tall and 5' wide.  For some reason I don't think that's going to happen; they just seem so frail....


Watering my cluster of Glads....I can't wait till they start blooming! :)

This I am not too happy about....something                                  And finally!!!  My first canna is poking
is eating my poor Zinnias...I hope they make it!                            through!  I can't believe it!  I thought they
                                                                                                                             weren't going to come up!   






















Our fescue is struggling.  After Memorial Day weekend, it really took a hit because I was out of town and couldn't water and the searing heat, ughh!  We've got some yellow patches.  We still have bare patches as well.  I don't know how it will end up turning out!  Well, that's all for now.  This blog entry was a nice break from my researching of organic crib mattresses.  I think my head was about to explode!

Friday, May 7, 2010

My Elephant Ears are Coming Up!

Not much has changed in the garden this week, just things are-a-growing!  I love the feeling of anticipation I get after I plant something.  Watching every day, waiting for that first sign of growth!  My elephant ears and caladium that I planted in the big purple pots poked through yesterday.  I can't wait for them to get huge and for my porch to have that lush tropical look.  A lot more of my glads starting coming up too, probably 8 or 9 of the 50 I planted are poking through.  I can't wait for those to be in bloom, I know it will be impressive!

 Elephant Ear

 The same Hosta I posted a pic of last week!  Growing fast!  (see the cat print in the upper right hand corner?  Kitty cats stay outta my beds!

Same Glad that I posted last week!
The fescue is still chugging along.  I bought a new sprinkler yesterday and I have really been soaking it.  There are sprouts coming up now in the places where it didn't seem like the seed had taken.  Hopefully with a little luck and love it will all come up and be b-e-a-u-tiful!  I also started watering our front lawn because it just looks so dead.  Come to find out, Kasey's cousin Jared, when he sprayed our lawn, mixed a WAY stronger solution than recommended.  Our poor grass, I hope it comes back to life!

Monday, May 3, 2010

Glad My Glads are Coming Up!

Hmmm, if I remember right, someone....oh who was it?  Oh yeah, my mother-in-law said that I had planted my Glads WAY too late and that they'd be puny little things and I should've done it earlier, blah, blah, blah.  Well, looky here.  This little guy looks strong to me!  So there, don't rain on my parade!  Negativity is just SO annoying to me!  Grow glads, grow!

Friday, April 30, 2010

This Blog Is In Honor Of.....

...my late Grandma, Betty Casida, who's green thumb I hope has been passed down to me!  Her garden was an inspiration to many, her kindness a characteristic I aspire to have.  You are loved and missed!


Ladies and gentleman; we have grass sprouts!  We've been diligently watering the Fescue seed we placed down under the shade tree in our yard a couple of weeks ago.  Finally today, there's life!  We were worried because a few days after we planted there was a really strong thunderstorm that washed a lot of the seed away, but alas, the little guys hung in there!


Upon going outside to take a photo of my little beauties above, I found that one of the guacamole hostas that I planted is emerging!  Yay!


And my favorite thing to plant by seed EVER, zinnias, are popping up.  They are pretty much instant gratification, within a few days you see the fruit of your labor!


Here's a few more pics of what's going on in my front yard!

Our Front Porch

My Favorite Shade Loving Flower, Impatients


        Sign I made for the mailman so he will stop          My hanging basket full of Impatients above one of
           walking on our little baby fescue!  Also,             the purple pots I got on sale: was $39.99, got for
         So he doesn't trip over the string I put out!       $14.99 at Home Depot.  There are elephant ears and
                                                                                                  and white variegated Caladium in there waiting to sprout!