Allium Pictures

I am literally running out the door after this quick blog.

I went outside to check on my flowers and I snapped some wonderful pictures that I just got to share with you.  This week as been crazy week. Past two days I have logged over 18 hours of babysitting and I have a lot more hours today.  

Good Morning from Saria!!! 

I love how in between the greens are just breath taking purple. They have been attracting bees, and I snaped some amazing pictures with my cell phone and of course they are soo small on here. I am gonna try to work with it and see if I can do something about it.   Thankfully the Alliums are far away from the porch area so it hasn't been bothering us. 

Morning!!!! :) 

This is what the plants look like as they are about to bloom. The green starts to turn into purple as you can see here. and then.. 

And as they are blooming more purple will pop out. 

And eventually you get this amazing  flowers!!! I am so proud of myself.. And they are a lot taller that I thought they would be.. I must have planted them in the perfect spot. :) 

Sorry for such a short blog, but this weekend I have plans to make it up.  When life gets crazy.. hold on and ENJOY the ride!! 

For you Miss Kate. (miss you)

She is also an army wife and she graduated from same High school as Spencer and I. Her and I have gotten close over the years. She of course is where I want to be right now.. Ft. Carson. Beautiful place, if you have a chance to be station there or visit Colorado Springs.. DO IT.. And go see Pikes Peak!  

Flowers/Plant Update

Been a week since I planted the flowers and of course below freezing is expected tonight.. ughhhh. But I am prepared with lots of tarp..  Below are some pictures, thought you would enjoy them as much as I do. 

This plant is sitting out on my small (very small) porch. It gives just enough color to the porch and will look great once my morning glory start to crawl on my railing and blooming. 

The begining of my morning glory.  Less than a week later it is already about 1/2 inch tall. They grow SUPER fast. 

My Forget-me nots are doing great.. They are a slow grower wished I started them earlier.. oh well. 

My little plants that have taken home in my dining room. Yes I am going to bring in my Gerber and my morning glory in tonight. I put them back outside cause they are sun loving plants and need to get about six hours of sun. Even though it was cooler today, there was lots of sun.  

These are those white flowers that are trialing out of my new bucket. They are doing great. 

My Alliums are really blooming.. They are not fully bloomed yet but I love the beatiful color.  Some of them are super tall, which is not what I was expecting. 

Saria (pronounced like Sara) was enjoying the sun with me while I was taking pictures. She is my baby. I come home with my husband, she will completely ignore him no matter if I or him was opening the crate. She will tackle me. 

I used Saria to show you how tall these flowers are. 

What a great model, she is??  She is like I want to chase things... mom... can I go now??  <3 her

Have a great monday evening. 

T 

Flowers, Seeds, Dirt Oh My!

I hope everyone is looking forward to the warm weather as much as I am.  Thankfully, it has been in the 70's here for a couple weeks now, but sadly.. NO RAIN... ahhh It is only spring and I am watering the grass.  Tomorrow sounds like we are gonna get about 1 inch of rain.  

As I said last post, Yesterday I went plant/flower shopping with my neighbor Jessica. (and bought too much :D, but I found a home for them all) 


The pictures of them it isn't all perfect, Some were planted today and and of course I took the pictures after I watered them. But hopefully in a week after the roots start growing and the plants start growing Ill take more pictures. 

This plant is called Rhododendron, this particular one will have beautiful, large light purple blooms. I never really liked the look of the plant without the blooms. I love the blooms so much I am willing to wait all year to love the plant for a month or so. :)  Underneath since this is a very shady area I planted some Coleus seeds.  This is just foliage, but some of the plants will have red, green leaves.  I am hoping they come out good. Last year I planted some flowers there that were suppose to come up every year.. yahh FAIL... they didn't survive.. I had some extra Petunias, so I planted five near the rocks to give it something while I am waiting for the Coleus to come in. 

Close up view. 

This flower bed is under my kitchen window.  There is two rows of Petunia :)  I love them.. I need to get mulch though. It would look soo much better.  But in the middle I planted some seeds of a mix batch.  They include many different types of flowers. Below is the batch I used.   I used one package here and I actually used another around the tree in the back with all the Hostas. These plants should grow about 2-3 feet tall so they will be able to stick our in between all the Hostas.  :D

Purple Mixed Flower Seeds

I bought a wooden bucket pail.  :)  I am a country girl at heart. I just couldn't walk away from it. :D  I used three  Snowstorm Giant Snowflake to trail out of the bucket.  They are trailing plants. and they have nice white blooms on them.   

This pail really works really well with my half wine barrel I have. Yes, I am missing a picture of that. But I planted seeds in it, so not much to see right now. I planted California Poppy in them.  I said this year was the year to experiment. So I am going all out. :D 

(After) 

This is my hosta plant that I transplanted a couple weeks ago, I added one of the trailing Giant Snowflake plant. It really pops!!  Big difference from last picture Huh?  

(Before)

The two small pots and the big black pots were filled with Petunias. 

The middle is actually a sweet Mint plant.  No I don't use it for my cooking.  Okay so a little side story. My husband and I grew up in a town of St. Johns; It is a small town, with mint/corn/soybean fields surround the city portion of the town. Well our town produces more than 50 percent of Michigan's mint. So of course at peaks of the mint crops, you can smell it for miles. If you don't live near where you grew up, something will always take you back.   No matter if you left by choice or not.  Me it is the smell of fresh mint. Well, I love anything that has mint. Takes me back to me being a careless girl growing up in this town.  I love Girl Scouts thin mints, mint ice cream, literally anything that has mint won't survive a couple days in my house.  :D  Make sure you surround you with sights, taste and smells that takes you back to good memories.  As much as I love being in New York, I miss home at times. I saw the mint plant and I couldn't resist. I thought my husband would make fun of me.. Nope. (shocked) He totally understood. Well I had three Petunias left over so to give the pot a little color, I planted those in with the mint as well. 

These are my little seedlings. Each day I am seeing a cup with a little big of green in the black dirt. :)  So excited for them to put in the grown when big enough.   Once they are big enough Ill probably just put them in the flower bed under the kitchen window or around my Rhododendron and any dead spots that flowers didn't survive. 

I also planted morning glories in a small pot.  They are a viney plant. And hopefully they will do great like they did last year and attach itself to the iron poles which is on our front porch. Ill add a picture of that later once they start growing.

For the front I planted a purple Gerber Daisy plant in a ceramic pot for a little something for the front porch.  

Have you planted your plants yet??


T