Another beautiful day!

The weather has been spring like making it easier to work out of doors.  My bench is coming along and I will post the update soon with photos of us building it. 

I took the time Sunday morning to walk my gardens and see what was blooming.  My Hyacinths provide a sweet perfume that is pleasant as I walk thru the different blooms. 



This was taken just a few days ago and now it has change already. As soon as the sun starts shining steadily and warms up the earth the garden begins to really get to work.



One of my New Millennium Delphinium seedlings, in the past I have called them English Delphiniums but I should correct myself here.  This one was in my greenhouse and is already blooming but the ones I put out in the garden last Fall are cropping up just fine as well, they will take longer to produce blooms.

You can go here to see my post on starting these from seed.



I have started a lot of these and I am going to plant them all in my garden, I love them! These were protected by wire to keep the chickens from digging them up as they hunted for worms.



My Japanese Maple seedlings are all leafing out.  I will share my method of sprouting these guys soon, it is easy enough.  I had nabbed these seeds off the patio of a restaurant that was surrounded by Japanese Maples, the seeds littered the ground thickly.  I will have to try there again this Fall and see if I can get more.



My Cecile Brunner climber is loaded with buds, the side I my chicken house this is clambering up will be awash with the spicy scented pink blooms soon.



All of my Clematis are donning buds as well.  Each one is a different color.  They sure seem to like it here. 



A thick carpet of Larkspur volunteering in the garden.



And some purple flower signs I have been painting on.






And a couple rose signs to ship out today.





I certainly hope everyone enjoys their Tuesday.  Another sunny spring day here and out to the studio I go.  First I think I will put down some more Delphinium seeds, I can’t have too many!

A Short Walk in the Garden

It is the first of the month and it is time to see what is happening (or not) in the garden. 

Here we go…

First thing I spot is some Larkspur seedlings popping up, the ground is frosty from our 32 degree night, but they persist in coming up.



Some Blue Star Creeper Groundcover hiding beneath some pine needles.



Volunteer Shirley poppies taking over the Japanese Maple in this pot. I should separate them out…. or not…



This photo turned out so dark, not sure why but this is a climbing rose, Dream Weaver, I do believe, and it is budding very early.  This is the warm side of the house. I just hope a hard freeze does not strike and burn the new growth. 



My favorite Clematis at the moment, called Warsaw Nike, it is also sprouting new growth. 



My Hydrangea is loaded with fat and sassy buds. 



Meet one of my ladies, this is the lone Black Copper Maran hen I ended up with after adopting 5 straight run chicks (my hope was to end up with mostly hens).  Yep I had to find homes for 4 Roosters, they were lovely but noisy.

Her name is Lady Maran, she thinks she is nobility, she expects preferential treatment and though one of the youngest of the hens does not let anyone push her around.  She is a pretty girl.



I also need to announce my winner of the My Memories software.  I totally forgot about it.  Blame it on my total absorption in getting our tax documents sorted and paperwork filled out. 

The winner is Bettie, she entered via email which is very convenient since that makes it easy to contact her!

Enjoy the visit to my garden this first week of February.  I will do another in a couple weeks.  We shall see how things have progressed. 



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Walk in the Gardens