A new start

I got the media kit from Renee's Garden in the mail and boy, oh boy was it just the kick-start I needed!
I'm actually excited to get back into the gardening since we've acquired a new roto-tiller.
Since last year was such a bust with the weather, I'm hoping this year will treat our garden a little better...I'll really, really be needing to can and freeze veg and fruit this year, unfortunately.
Can't wait to get some onion seed started later this month.
Thanks for pulling up that excitement that has been missing for so long, Renee!!

I Give Up!

Well, as it stands right now, I've given up on all of my flowerbeds. I just can't deal with the quack grass any more and it has taken over 90 percent of the beds. I've waved the white flag of surrender. The quack grass wins! It's the only thing I hate about living in the country surrounded by farm fields that never get mown. ~sigh~

I'll continue the war in the veg garden, though. We might have an ugly lawn, but we still gotta eat!

The Martagon Lilies Bloomed!

Woot!!
I started them 5 years ago from seed I received from the Willow Garden, and here they are - What beauties!











They were so worth the wait. I still have more to bloom yet, plus the ones that were started a year later than these to, hopefully, have some new colors next year. I sure won't be disappointed if they're the same!
Happy growing!

Mid-August 2010

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Quick one - busy, busy.
Blooms in the yard now:

I love this color.


Past bloom. I missed it.


Still tons of buds to open yet. I'm hoping I'll get at least a few the Japanese beetles haven't munched!


Another I love the color of this year.


The scent is glorious this year.


These were suppose to be the double cosmos 'extra' seed from Renee's Garden. Ummm, not quite...


These always cheer me up!


The hummers are happy.


So pretty.








And, just like every other year, my poor lil maple is confused again!! He's always in such a rush, and no amount of trying to explain to him that he's two months early is sinking in...

'Descendents' Is Stunning!!

This animated short, called Descendents, with the Whoopi Goldberg as the voice of the older, wiser flower, is simply stunning!

Description from Binary Alchemy:"Descendants" is a 14 minute animated short about the wish of attaining the unattainable and about the fact that something good can evolve from something evil.

The two main characters are flowers (voiced by Whoopi Goldberg and Christy Scott Cashman) who grow on the edge of a clearing next to one another.
One is old and jaded by a mysterious history - the other one still young, vivid and curious. Destiny has brought these two together and it seems as if they would exist without possibility for change, until one day a visitor to the clearing brings something unexpected to their lives.

Descendants from Goro Fujita on Vimeo.