“Barney the Blister-a Gardening Tale”

When the weather turns warm and the air sweet I find myself drawn to the outdoors.   Gardening has always been one of my favorite spring pass times, and having my own garden makes it even better…However redoing a very established garden is more of a challenge than I anticipated.

These last few weekends have been filled with dirt, worms, blisters, some blood, sore muscles and sunburns.  Sounds like fun huh? 

But the fruits - or more accurately- flowers of these labors are, I think, pleasing and attractive. I am delighted with my little garden.  I wish that I had more funds, and time, to make it really “my garden”, but alas flowers are surprisingly costly and it’s unexpectedly easy to exceed the preset limits when shopping at the nursery.  At least the plants I have chosen are all perennials and I can add to it over the months/years to come.

The other day I took pictures of all of the flora now planted in my garden so that in the future when I am wondering if that purple plant in the corner is the Siberian Bugloss or if it is the Lavender White or Lavender spliced Columbine, I’ll be able to look back at my labeled pictures and discover that it is really dandelions or grape hyacinths. 

I thought it only fitting to post said documentarial pictures on the blog…this way the charming flowers may be viewed by all.  This action also provides a fail safe for when my computer crashes (which will inevitably happen knowing my laptop) then I will still have record of my amazing green thumb (let’s just hope that the plants survive now that I have claimed that).

Now since we don’t have internet at the house yet I put these pictures on my thumb drive to take to work with me so that I could put them up on my lunch hour. Sadly I forgot to grab the pictures of all of the flower labels.  You’d think I’d be able to remember their names considering the quality time I have spent with them, but alas I cannot.  I will try my best to put the right name with the right flower

First off, the Columbines

pictured above "Swan red and white Columbine"

Lavender spliced Columbine

Jack Frost Siberian Bugloss (Adam’s favorite)

Jacobs Ladder

Lavender

Lavender Silvia

Dwarf Corianthis

 

Carnations

I can’t remember the names of these next few, but will update with their names soon

Here are our window boxes filled with Geraniums, Snap Dragons, and Petunias.

Now for the Vegetable Garden

Tomatoes (before planting)

We have planted Green peppers, yellow peepers, “Chocolate” peppers, corn, peas, beans, cucumber, watermelon, strawberries, and some cantaloupe.

We also have a herb garden left from the previous owners…All I can say for sure is that there are chives in there, the rest is unknown. 

If all goes well we will have quite the harvest.