Charlie Brown Maple

My "moat" needed planting, so I thought a Japanese Maple might be nice. I went to a couple of nurseries. I left with sticker shock. The cheapest one I liked was $120.00. No one had any foot high, $20.00 ones. ( that would have been in my price range ) So off to Walmart!!! Where else? They had a sad little Red Sunset Maple shoved in the corner with a discount price of $7.00 on it. It now stands proudly in the center of the moat. I think it can get up to 40 feet high. Oh my. We shall see!

The Blue Mist Shrub is in full bloom now and very beautiful. the bees love it. I was hoping that you could see from the picture the tons of bees on the plant but you can't. There is a Butterfly bush behind it.

Tomatoes

I've been a BBBAAAAADDDD blogger. Ok,well, tomatoes are here!! Some of my plants I bought from our local greenhouse. I don't remember what variety, but I don't remember them being anything out of the ordinary. The tomatoes are BIG. And a little oddly shaped. But they taste good! Some plants I grew by mistake from seeds from last years plants. ( volunteers )

End of July

I think this summer was not a good one for plants. It was a very wet spring, then summer has been hot and dry. It has started to rain again and the crab grass has sprung to life. Uggg. I have had to weed wack the street. Weeds were growing against the curb. Here are some bloomers.

Hey Roney, what is the little tree trying to grow all over my yard that I am pulling out? ( last picture )

We need Rain!

I always try to take pretty pictures. I avoid the yellow or brown leaves, ect. , just try to capture the beauty. The truth is that we need RAIN. And everything is brown. : ( I can not water everything. My water bill would be amazing. So please do your rain dance. I do water the veggies a little and they are growing out of control, as usual. Cucumbers should be the next biggie. Time to make pickles!!!

Firewood

My brother Roney is a "tree guy" I asked for firewood and he delivered........ a forest...... Ryan helped unload the "trees" Roney is going to come up with his log splitter and chainsaws and turn the trees into burnable wood.

power for the shed

I am working on getting power to my shed. Had some boys digging...... still working on the electric part.

Blooming Flowers

ok, I find that I am lazy and busy and have not posted. Here are some flowers that are blooming now.

The Moat

This is the latest "garden". Ryan said I made a moat. I think I like it. I need to add some filling. It's the brown strip next to the sidewalk.

garden guards

Toddy and Amber on duty. They will happily catch, kill, and eat any intruders. Isabell lives here too, but doesn't believe in violence.

My Columbine bloomed but it was a little dull. The bugs were attacking I think. The Chinese dogwoods are in bloom now and are beautiful. Coreopsis is next. The bugs have not bothered them. I like to think I try to be organic but I did get out the 7 recently to fight some bug activity.

Shoot, I forgot the basil!

I finally got new batteries for my camera. This Blog is for Liza...... Lettuce, spinach, dill, tomatoes, peppers, ( bell and jalapeños ) ( thank God for spell check ) onions, (thanks to Liza ) cilantro, beans, snap peas, cucumbers, and an attempt at carrots.

It's Strawberry time!!! They grew pretty big and almost blemish free. No pesticides used. I started about 3 years ago with 6 plants. They went nuts. I was just lucky that they liked where I planted them. They have full sun and good drainage. My property has a slope into the back yard and the rain runs downhill. You can see the whole patch in photo # 2 , it's all the low greens to the right of the pic. My mother called it strawberry fields. ( it's a small field ) So far I have frozen quite a few for smoothies and made one batch of jam. Yum!

This is my first post. Welcome to my garden! Ryan said I should have a blog. This is a Clematis. It's a red wine color and very beautiful. There are Hostas growing under it. I don't know the name of the golden/yellow creeping plants around it because my neighbor gave me a few pieces and it took off, but I neglected to catch the name.