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!

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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/