Dirt to curtains & everything in between... The joys & sometimes trials of a simple country life.
Lookie what I got...Hubby was nice enough to include these on the truck full of car "stuff" from North Carolina...I might get my greenhouse sooner than I had dared to even dream...At the very least we can use them for cold frames for the fall garden this yr.
And some of you may remember me mentioning how many pecan branches have come down so far this summer, between the afternoon thunderstorms, that are a way of life here in Florida and the fact the trees are just LOADED with heavy nuts...
The other day we got some very high winds and heavy rains, even for around here...When I heard a crash from the master bedroom...On inspection nothing INSIDE the room was a-miss, but outside the window I saw this...Yup another pecan branch came down...
There has been for the longest time a rather large branch caught up in the crook of the tree, well it seems that with the wind and rain it grew to heavy and brought down the branches it was caught in...(another side note...Notice how much the grass has come in over the past few months..yay)
Alas it tore the decorative top from my arbor...Hubby assures me he can fix it no problem, thank goodness...
Though I am sad about the arbor not looking so pretty right now, I am just grateful it did not do any damage to the house...
Even my angel statue was spared...
My hanging basket with the almost dead petunia was an unfortunate casualty..
Gotta love the girls sense of style as she stands in front of the porch...
She loves to help water the potted plants too..Something mummy has been neglecting lately..
And you know she just loves all the butterflies that visit...
Sometimes we will be sitting in the living room and see these giant beauties pass the window and she will go running outside to watch them flit around the flowers...
Under one of the big old pecan tree's is our "wash tub" with the angel statue..Sara loves to watch the squirrels run up and down the tree and the pretty Cardinals that visit the bird feeder on the other side of the tree...
Because her favorite color is pink, you know she just loves these fluffy full flower heads
She also loves the Everlastings because they look like big fluffy paper stars...
But her one of her very favorites is the hibiscus...She loves the huge red blooms and is always sad when she finds them spent and drooping and ask's..."What 'appened 'ere?"
I included a couple of other sweet wild flowers that were growing close by in the ditch..
Can anyone tell me what kinda caterpillar this is?
Not sure if I am brave enough to try eating the fruit as they do not seem to change color, just fall from the vine large and green and then rot into the ground...I would however like to transplant some along my back garden fence because they are truly gorgeous flowers.
White Vinca - Color Balance Editing
Day Lily Buds
Pink Vinca
Pears
Box of pears ready for tomorrow when we go to visit Boots and help with the worming and vaccination of him and all the other goats...This is going to be a great learning experience for both hubby and I.
The Mexican Petunia are beginning to bloom
Butterfly bushes have been cut back since they got top heavy and the storms keep toppling them over
Bumble Bee after the afternoon thunderstorm had passed
More pecan limbs on the ground *sad face* At this rate will we have enough pecans for pies this Thanksgiving?
See how loaded this branch was?
And I have a challenge for you...Let's call it the boot challenge...
What is this plant? I know I did not plant it in the boot, but since I recycled some pots and soil it could have come from anyway...I think it is really cute and might even put it into a larger pot...I just wish I knew what it it..
AND FINALLY
The pink boots are holding up to the weather well, only a few flaky bits...I am not sure what it is growing in the left boot, it is some kind of succulent with a little cup part that catches the water when it rains...Sadly the heat this week got to it and it is a little burnt...I will need to move them to a more sheltered spot...in the right boot the thyme is growing back again...yay
I am so in love with my pink Knock-out rose...even after all the pounding from the rain this week the blooms are holding in there...
The sweet potato vines seem to be liking their new home and the basil that I harvested a couple of weeks back has new shoots on it also...my marigolds have been flowering non-stop since March...
Here is the sweet potato vine I snitched for my hanging basket...it is doing well, even had new growth and leaves on it already..
First Black Eye Susan opened this week
The white Wisteria is doing super well...I need to make up my mind which porch post I want to train it up SOON..
The volunteer Vinca are doing great and have filled the bed in front of the porch with a lovely splash of pretty colors.
Alas 2 of my butterfly bushes got blown over during yesterdays storm...Tomorrow morning I will have to trim them back and rebury their roots...
Also thanx to yesterdays storm is this small branch from the pecan tree (there were a few large branches down too)...but it proves we are going to have pecans this yr...I am so excited to have our very own pecans on the sweet potato casserole at Thanksgiving...maybe even our own sweet potatoes too...Actually I am hoping most of the veggies this year will be from our own garden...Are you planting any veggies for your Thanksgiving meal this year?
We donned our work attire...
While I pulled a mountain of weeds, Sara harvested the red Onions...
The onions are a little on the small side but I needed to keep nagging McPita child busy and we need the garden space for the sweet potatoes, so up they came.
