This is my island bed that gets the most weeds in it every year... because it is down wind from the hill in front of the house... which is where the wind blows from... But we have a lot of pretty stuff in this bed... the crocuses this year were really lovely! There are 2 tart cherry trees, burning bush, daffodils, tulips, geraniums, balloon flowers, black eyed susans, echinacea, stella d'ora, some grasses, evergreen bushes and some other things i don't remember the names of...
The purple flowers are the hardy geraniums that i love, although they are not the same ones i had a few years ago... those were more compact and they actually spread like a ground cover, sometime maybe i can find those again...Also this year some mint showed up... Oh my! is that stuff all over or what! I am not sure what to do with that... it is pretty and like a ground cover, and smells wonderful!!!
This stuff is so pretty i just had to share!
This is the view from the front... I realize it needs some help up there... It is where i have all the spring bulbs, so i need to find something that is low growing and fill in there... I really think the Huchera (coral bells) are pretty and now there are so many different foliage colors...
Does any body know what this stuff is? It is quite invasive and i am not sure what it does!!! does it flower!? I put in a gallon size pot last year and now it is covering a four foot area now!!!
Some of the crocuses! They are so pretty and the sure sign of Spring!!! YAY!!!
Some of the Kazakh Tulips! Just ready to bloom and it SNOWED!!!!!! I couldn't believe it! But as you see in the next picture, it didn't even phase them!!!
Aren't they FABULOUS!!!!? (Angela, I am going to buy you some this year, really... sorry i forgot last year. It is already on my calendar for September!)
These are the Kaufmann type, i am pretty sure.______________________________________________________
These are our garden beds by the house. The "Kitchen" garden. We decided to change out the soil to the WeedFree soil mix... Unfortunately we have to shovel by hand all of it out!!! We had built some "cold frames" to grow stuff later and start earlier... but it did not work so well... bummer! So we dumped all the excess soil around the lawn... The lawn is all sand and could always use more topsoil! Recently though we have discovered the chives still growing away in a small pile Jerry put in the woods! So we have been eating those... well ok... Alex has been... He LOVES chives and onion tops!!!! Crazy boy... He will eat lots of those at any time... then whew does his little boy breath stink!!!!
So we dug out all the soil...
Then we put in a weed barrier and hardware cloth to make sure moles can't come up into the garden! Yeah... that would be terrible!! After that we can fill it with the mix! woohoo!!
This is the next batch of Kazakh tulips!! These are Greigii tulips, I believe. Aren't the leaves great!? I LOVE these!
These are a Greigii type, too.
We went to Missouri for the Spring planting festival at Baker Creek Heirloom Seed company. Jerry's sis and kids met us there... It had rained 8 inches that week and then rained all day that we were there!!! I hardly took out my camera! But we finally took it out at the end, because we had to document that we spent all day slopping around in the mud!!! What a mess! So funny!
When we came home this is what i saw first when i drove up! The Tulips were still blooming, but seemed to be even brighter than before! So pretty!!!
Our first seedlings!!!! Sugar Snap Peas!! We can hardly wait to eat them... mostly we eat them in the garden... but this year we planted a lot more, so we might be able to get them inside for dinner or to freeze some... we will see! We still have to make the trellis that they will grow up... I think i have a picture of that... maybe next post.
Apple blossoms at a friend's house... Our Apple trees are WAY to small to blossom!
I think we are going to have GRAPES this year!!!!!! We are so excited!!! The Vines are covered in baby grape bunches!!! We have had it in for about 4 years and we got grapes once... one bunch. I can't even take the time to count how many bunches are on there this year... so many!!! But the leaves are amazing colors when they first start growing!!!
Here's our Lettuce, spinach, mesclan blend, and green onion "patch." All our favorites! Even Anthony likes to eat the leaves out there in the garden... I have to get after the boys often as they pull the whole plant up trying to get a leave to eat! :)
We planted a bunch of fruit trees this Spring!! Most of them we got from "Trees of Antiquity" in California. They have Organic, Heirloom varieties... LOTS of them!!! We bought 10 apples and 2 pears from them... and would have bought peaches and cherries too, but they were sold out already of the kinds that we can grow here. So we bought the peaches and cherries at a store here... HUGE difference!!! Next year i am going to try to get some from TOA though!When i first requested a catalog from TOA i guess i forgot my address, so they had to contact me to get it... when i replied, my blog address is always in my signature in the email, i discoved that the lady that would send out my catalog was also researching adoption and had been interested in Kaz, but was also checking out Kyrgystan! What a small world... we have kept in touch ever since! They offer an Apple tree named Alexander, so you know we had to order it!! When she sent out the invoice, she gave it to us as a gift in honor of our Alex!!! i couldn't believe how sweet and generous she was!! So we really cherish that apple now!!! Soon i hope to be able to send her something for her baby... although i am sure it won't be an apple tree!! haha! I can't wait to taste them all! So then we ended up choosing each our own apple trees... Anthony gets the Mutsu Apple... huge and tart... haha! Jerry gets the Roxbury Russet, me the Strawberry parfait, and Kimi gets the Snow Apple! haha! We also have Spitzenburg, Ashmead's Kernal, and Cox's Orange. They all sound so very good!! We are excited about them... we have dwarfs, semi-dwarfs, and standard sizes.
Of course, my water lilies! However, my pond has a leak somewhere in the bottom pond... bummer... that is going to be a big job to find, so it will wait a while until all the planting and gardenbed selling is done for the season!More updates soon!!! :)
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