Amateur Gardener
Cottage style gardening
Feedjit
April 07, 2021
We Have A Creek
We've been exploring our recently purchased "raw" land and discovered we have a creek and natural spring. I would love to add some Spring flowering plants along this creek.
February 17, 2021
Cold Snow Day In Texas
February 16, 2021
Bird In The House During Snow Storm
A bird flew out of our fireplace while I had a fire going! It's amazing it wasn't burned. It flew around from skylight to skylight (we have 2) for about an hour before I was able to coax it into a box with some birdseed. I was able to release it outside. We've been experiencing power blackouts since yesterday so I decided to make a fire to keep warm. I haven't used the fireplace since 2012 and we had to use some cut up 2x4s we had in the garage as we had no wood stored. Little bird was a welcome distraction from the cold and I'm glad it was able to fly away.
January 07, 2021
January 25, 2020
June 10, 2019
Polymerous Daylily and Cherry Tree
It usually has 3 of each. I'm not sure why this happens. It's called Polymerous.
This plant has had several blooms this season and this is the only flower so far like this.
Decatur Apricot Daylily ( A polymerous) |
This is how it usually looks. |
My son-in-law & daughter purchased 2 cherry trees for me as
a Christmas gift in 2012 - a Bing and a Stella. One died and one survived. It's
been a very slow grower as this is the first year
for blossoms. Beautiful blossoms and I did get
a few great tasting cherries!! Hopefully it will have more
next year. I guess this is the Stella - self pollinating.
June 05, 2019
Suburbia Final Came
I've been on my little somewhat secluded 1/2 acre for 9 years with no neighbors on one side or behind us, just a wooded wildlife laden 6 acres with an unoccupied house. Now have new neighbors and wildness cleared out. It will take some getting used to. We attached lattice to the top of our fence to block the view. Some photos show before and after. Two large barns where built as well. I guess I was a bit spoiled. Oh well - knew someday it would change.
Barn just built where a vacant field was for the last 9 years. See before photo below. |
Before the barn photo. |
This is the after photo |
The second barn is behind our trees. So view is blocked pretty good by our trees and lattice. |
Before picture - the trees and shrubs hadn't come into bloom yet. Dirt area is where the 2nd barn was built. |
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