Early in March, there is a short time when the white garden has a few pink blooms. Three of the four main trees in the garden design bloom with pale pink blooms (the two flowering plums and the Katy apricot) and the fourth, the Early Elberta peach, blooms with deep pink blooms. The first of…
When the house we are in was first built, I wanted to buy this exact house. We had moved into another house just a couple of years before, however, and there was no way for us to move at that point. Several years later, when we heard that the owners were thinking of selling (but…
Good things to come. . . . Baby expected in a few weeks!
The garden is becoming rather full and lush lately. We had a beautiful, cloudy weekend, with a bit of rain, which gave me the opportunity to photograph the garden without the harsh light that it normally gets. Rain in April is extremely unusual here, but oh so pretty, and we were happy for the storm…
It’s been a long time since I shared pictures of the backyard garden. It is so incredibly beautiful right now. The fruit trees are in bloom in the garden, and if you stand still, you can hear the bees and see them work. The birds have been enjoying the garden, too. I’ve…
Fall is a great time to plant a garden! All of the wonderful things you want to grow in early spring grow well in fall. Once temperatures reach freezing, most will overwinter in an unheated greenhouse, under floating row covers, under hoop houses (plastic sheeting over hoops) and cloched under glass or plastic. Something that…
I spent several hours in the garden this morning, picking fruit. I picked Mission figs, Royal apricots, Apache blackberries, Red Flame Grapes, Dorsett Golden Apples, and white alpine strawberries. Tonight I’ll pick more apricots and blackberries, towards the end of the day when the sun is going down. I love the fruit we receive from…
The two most common complaints I hear people give about their home-grown fruit is that the tree produces fruit that is too small, and that the tree only fruits every other year. Both of these problems are easily solved by thinning. A tree naturally thins itself, to some degree. Wind helps with this, knocking down…
When the heat sets in, the cool weather crops bolt. Lettuce grows 2 1/2 feet high and Swiss chard grows taller than my head. The plants go from being pretty to be being scraggly. They flower, and pollinated by the bees, the flowers turn into seeds. The seed pods dry out, and then you can…
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I haven’t bought green onions from the store for 7 years . . . because I haven’t needed to. I grow green onions in my garden. These are also known as green bunching onions. They don’t form a bulb. I started with green onion sets from the store. Several green onions grow in a container,…
The first Mother’s Day after Winter was born, I told my husband I wanted a Mother’s Day gift. I wasn’t sure what I wanted at first, but then one day I saw something in the grocery store ad. The grocery store had a teak glider bench for $100. My sweet husband bought that…