Blooming Tuesday

I wanted to show you our purple fence. We had some old lattice at our business and I took it from the thow away pile and painted it purple - this picture doesn't do it justice but it really looks great. On the other side is our shade garden/side yard with the pond etc. It is quite lovely.

Of course I have to share our two new babies.....
Teague born August 15th
Tate born August 15th

Have a wonderful Bloomin' Tuesday!I'm joining MsGreen "thumb" Jean for Bloomin' Tuesday! Come join in or see others!

Blooming Tuesday - My vVgetable Garden & A Swing!

Hi Girls,
Sorry I have been MIA - I have been working in mygarden and getting ready for 2 new grandchildren due this month. One daughter had her baby boy Sunday August 9 and another daughter is due any second!

Here are a few before and after pictures of the our vegetable garden

Beans

First picture after a heavy rainstorm in June.

Second picture yesterday

Corn

In June after a huge rainstorm

Second picture - yesterday

Sqaush

Yesterday - I can't get the blogger to upload the before picture - sorry!

My tomatoe tree! It started out as a 12 inch plant. It is so happy and covered with green tomatoes.

A Beautiful Swing our Son In Law made us.....we love it and use it every night! He does this for a buisness and made us one - so sweet!

Blooming Tuesday - Spring Blossoms

Welcome to Blooming Tuesday!

This is a pictue of our back corner yard. The amazing pink tree in the back corner is in full bloom - it is amazing! It is a Hawthorn Tree. Next to it are the lilacs. Everywhere you walk in our neighborhood you can smell lilacs. It is amazing. You can see a few iris in the corner of the picture.

Here are a few of my Iris'. The purple ones are in the side of the picture above. They are in the cutting garden and the yellow ones are tucked in the Woodland in a dark spot - they really brighten it up!

As always, thanks to Jean at for hosting Blooming Tuesday. I love this day to look at everyone's gardens and how they are growing. Check out this link to see other participants http://msgreenthumbjean.blogspot.com/

Blooming Tuesday - Fruit Tree Blossoms

Our weather is all crazy - we had 60 mile an hour winds on Friday, it froze night Saturday Night and Monday it was 90*, today it is windey again. My poor plants! I am watering today like crazy.

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With the hot weather yesterday the blosssoms on the fruit tree's are all starting to open up.

Here are a few pix:

Cherry tree's in blossom.

A cherry blossom

An apple blossom

The apricots and plums haven't blossomed yet. I hope the frost on saturday night didn't hurt them.

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I also wanted to show you my newest bleeding heart. I am sorry to say I can't remember it's name, but it is supposed to be this lime color - isn't it awesome! My other bleeding hearts aren't in bloom yet. They are all the darker green leaf color.

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One more - our freshly tilled garden! WOO HOO You all know what I am going to be doing this week.

As always, thanks to Jean at for hosting Blooming Tuesday. I love this day to look at everyone's gardens and how they are growing. Check out this link to see other participants http://msgreenthumbjean.blogspot.com/

Stepping Stones - Yard Art - Blooming Tuesday

I am getting so excited to add to my yard "art". It has been really blowy and rainy this week (winds gusts today of 60 mph) so I haven't been able to get out much. I have been looking for yard art and working on a few creations. I will show those later, but wanted to share with you some of my stepping stones. Some I have made and some are gifts.

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First - this is what my husband gave me for Mother's Day, a beautiful geranium hanging basket and paint for my yard art! I am so excited!!! Shayla our #4 daughter made this to go in the hammock quadrant in the side yard/pond area.

This is in the grandchildren's garden - each has a stepping stone they helped me make.

Shayla made this for me last Mother's Day.

This is in the Oriental Garden in the Entry area

Garden of Sitting - next to the bench by the pond made by Mesha our oldest daughter.

Flower Stepping Stone - made by Kalea #3 daughter. These stones are what are used to walk up behind the pond.

This one was made with a little grandson helping me stick in marbles everywhere.
Another stepping stone used to step back into the garden when everything is up. Made by Shayla.
I taight a class last year of summer ideas to do with kids - this is one of the projects we did. Took a paver and painted a picture on it with "Patio Acrylic Paint".

All kinds of pictures of stepping stones –
http://familycrafts.about.com/od/steppingstones/ig/Garden-Stepping-Stone-Photos/

How To Make Stepping Stones
http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/steppingstones/a/040201c.htm

Blog with Stepping Stone Ideas
http://craftygardener.blogspot.com/2008/04/stepping-stones.html

Michael’s Stepping Stones Ideashttp://www.michaels.com/art/online/search?pageNumber=1&channel=0&search=yes&type=0&searchWords=stepping+stones&as_fid=1&x=15&y=11

As always, thanks to Jean at for hosting Blooming Tuesday. I love this day to look at everyone's gardens and how they are growing. Check out this link to see other participants http://msgreenthumbjean.blogspot.com/

We HAve Flowers!

WOO HOO! We have flowers starting to bloom in Idaho!

Here are the flowers starting to bloom. If the weather stays about where it is, there will be more next week!

These are the first of the tulips. As I have been around town, they are just starting to open up. You can see how tall the iris' are in the background.

This is candytuft from the Woodland Garden.

This is from the pond.

Thanks for letting me share - so happy to see the stirrings of color in our area!

As always, thanks to Jean at for hosting Blooming Tuesday. I love this day to look at everyone's gardens and how they are growing. Check out this link to see other participants http://msgreenthumbjean.blogspot.com/

Blooming Tuesday -

I keep promising tulip pix, but they are not opening because it is still a bit too cold for them. They are finally making heads. so are the violets and a ton of other things. Maybe next week if the temps will stay up like they are forecast to I can share some pictures of them!

We had another snow storm...this is how the daffodils looked - poor babies! I actually have about 6 different types of daffodils opened right now. They are all beautiful even with snow frosting!

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM MDT WEDNESDAY FOR SNOW... A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING.

It causes gardening difficulties too!

As always, thanks to Jean at for hosting Blooming Tuesday. I love this day to look at everyone's gardens and how they are growing. Check out this link to see other participants http://msgreenthumbjean.blogspot.com/

Project Friday - Finally Spring is in Idaho and Fairy Gardens!

We have been cleaning out flower beds, getting the gardens ready and enjoying the daffodils! WOO HOO. I have quite a few theme gardens that are cleaned and green is popping up all over in them.

I wanted to add a fairy garden this year and we were able to get it started this week. But what started out as one garden has turned into a fairy neighborhood. I will update this on coming project Friday's as we complete it.

Our darling daughter is the chief architect for the first one. She still has lots to do and plants to add, but this is where it is right now:

This second one is being designed by our darling grandson who is almost four. He came today to help me put it together. It is about 3 feet to the right of the one above and next to the play yard.

When Wyatt was here a couple of days ago, he asked me if the fairies had come back yet. I told him they couldn't come back until we got their houses and yard ready for them. He is all excited to get it cleaned and ready for them to arrive.

Here are all the supplies we found around the house to use:

This is what we did this afternoon:

He is all done!

We still need to add some plants to the bare soil you can see. When Wyatt was playing in the play yard, the Fairies came to see their house, because the next time he checked it they had left sparkles all over the path and here and there.

In the Fairy Garden Neighborhood there is a secret place where wood used to be stored and the tree's and lilac bushes grew around it. We have a secret chair and table in there. We are going to paint them lime green and hang fun things also painted lime green from the tree's back in there.

Click here to see the whold post about the garden show with these ideas

We have a few more spots to add things fairy tingles to to finish our neighborhood, this has been so fun this spring!

Check out the other Project Friday Participants at http://sugarplumcottage.blogspot.com/

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Daffodils Are Starting To Bloom!

From Blooming Tuesday

I wanted to share with you a few of our daffodil's. The tulips aren't opened yet. You have to remember, that we had snow until Friday, so these little beauties are still just waking up!

Here is another:
and another.....

As always, thanks to Jean at for hosting Blooming Tuesday. I love this day to look at everyone's gardens and how they are growing. Check out this link to see other participants http://msgreenthumbjean.blogspot.com/

I Am Out Of Yard Shape!

We are under a winter storm watch, so it is really cold out today. we are supposed to have snow by tonight, with promises of the sun by Friday! That is why I spent yesterday in the cutting garden, clipping and cleaning and transplanting. I am pretty sore today and I love it!

I also widened my little planting area from 4 inches to 12 inches around the picket fence in the play yard and planted sweet peas. It has bricks etween it and the grass so it will be a cinch to mow around.

This is the area from last summer.

This is close up:

Next week I should have flowers I can share from this year! My daffodils and tulips are ready to pop.

Thanks to Jean at for hosting Blooming Tuesday. I love this day to look at everyone's gardens and how they are growing. Check out this link to see other participants http://msgreenthumbjean.blogspot.com/

50* In Idaho Today!

This week for Blooming Tuesday I want to show you a couple of pictures from last summer of a corner of the cutting garden and what I worked on today. The cutting garden is about 50 feet long and hosts a variety of flowers.

It was 50* out today - most of the snow melted from last weeks 3 blizzards and it is glorious!

Here are some pictures of some of the Hollyhocks:
From a distance:

This is a little closer (our 3rd daughter checking another flower- she is graduating from college in Horitculture in August.) Look just a little closer and you can see a bee inside.

This is how it looked this morning when I had the area about 1/2 cleaned out:

Thanks to Jean at for hosting Blooming Tuesday. I love this day to look at everyone's gardens and how they are growing. Check out this link to see other participants http://msgreenthumbjean.blogspot.com/