We're rich!

Hah! But look at all the money plant / silver dollar plant. These are mixed in throughout almost all our beds, and they all started from one lone plant that must have reseeded itself from Mrs. Pampalone's gardening days.



The azaleas are starting to join the color show.



Look at all the volunteer sunflowers along the bricks! There are more throughout the front and side beds, yay!



Mrs. Pampalone's primroses are starting to bloom.



This was all seen on our way to harvest part of breakfast from our backyard.





Asparagus and eggs. A heavenly combination we learned of last spring...

Thank you, neighbors!

For growing the lilacs, and for not chopping them down. Last year our neighbors chopped down a mulberry that was next to their lilac, because the squirrels were jumping off the mulberry onto their roof, and apparently got in their attic. Thank goodness they didn't hold that against the lilac, too!

So colorful

I'm loving the color in our beds right about now.









Tulips from Carrie, therefore I will forever call these Carrie Tulips!



Mom says this is Spirea. I don't care what it's called, I love it. I love the teeny, tiny, perfect little flowers.

Spring has sprung!

I'm tired after a weekend in D.C. with Mom and Christa, but really need to get going with spring photos. So here are a few!

Plumeria, first thing that was blooming this year. This was a "tag along" in a pot of phlox I bought a couple of years ago.



We are 99.9% sure that in that glass block, with the pink flourescent plastic flowers, is St. Joseph.



Love the vibrant blue!



Our pear trees are blooming, yay!



Some new primrose I added this year, with very big flowers. (Along with Mrs. Pampelone's primrose, a columbine and two bleeding hearts I planted last year)



I spent four years trying to rip this out of the bed. Last year I didn't get out there early enough, and it bloomed, it is a Flowering Quince! So, I let it grow...

It's right around the corner...

November

Today I dug up the voodoo bulbs - some of them are HUGE! And there are lots of babies, so our voodoo bulb stink fest next spring should be fantastic. :-)





I also pulled the canna from the big pots so they could come inside for the winter. They didn't bloom this year. I need to figure out why so I can try to avoid whatever it was that I did wrong for next year.



Things are looking very fall-like in our yard. Miscanthus:



Asparagus:



Hydrangea:



Last rose bloom:



Rudbeckia, still plugging along:

Don't hate me!

Okay, here's what September brought...now that it's almost October.

The woodchuck got the zucchini:



The sunflowers were falling over (still are):





Really BIG potatoes!





Corn, peppers, and wax beans into the freezer:



And sauce: