My Garden

I am excited! It's starting to bloom at last! Only starting, mind you, but it's enough to excite me. I'm sure that any day now I will go out and see twenty feet or so of flowers blooming. I'll be eating more vegetables than just the lettuce too.


My first sunflower opened a couple of days ago.






The wildflowers have been blooming, but they are from last year.








And I planted the marigolds and the angelonia as plants rather than seed.










But now the smallest of the seeds I planted have begun to
bloom. You have to look closely to find them, but it's a beginning







This is one of the petunias from my big basket on the front step, complete with sleeping bug. Hey! Have you been eating my flower?




I think he's snoozing after his meal of petunia.
Click to see him more easily.


I'm really looking forward to the butterfly bush. The blooms are forming nicely, and a few are starting to show purple. I do enjoy that one. Most of the seeds that I sowed will be a surprise. I was given a big box of mixed seeds labeled for a hummingbird garden, so I won't know until they bloom how many of what kinds of flowers will appear. I know that I will love them all. Just hope our hummers find them enticing.

I took all of these pictures yesterday morning. In the afternoon I intended to head over to the local airport for some photos of the biplanes doing their aerobatics. They've been zooming around for two days now. I got as far as Bayshore Road. The gas company detours had the road blocked solid for a long, long stretch, and from what I could see, there were other detours ahead. I turned around and went home.

Instead, I went back to pick mulberries. I haven't had mulberries since I was a child. There is a tree all the way in the back of my property, where I rarely go, and it seems that every year I forget about it until it's too late. They fall to the ground as soon as they're ripe, and are walked on and mowed over, and by the time I think of it, they are gone. But yesterday I did manage to collect a few. Of course, I didn't think of gloves, and my hands quickly turned purple. A small price to pay. I was so pleased with my small harvest.

Do any of you have fruit trees, bushes, vines - whatever?