Our very first pepper from seed!
Pumpkin blossoms.
Spanish flag/nasturtiums: the spanish flag has yet to bloom, but it's growing like crazy.
Dahlia's, from bulb.
Nasturtiums are my favorite discovery--the leaves look like lily pads and the blooms like colored stars. Delightful.
This cute little deck is actually a sandbox.
Designed by yours truly, implemented by husband. It still needs staining, but seriously looks so much better than the previous structure that we tore down. BTW, this deck/sandbox is built almost entirely from the "repurposed" wood that the old thing was made out of.
Wow! I still can't get over how much better it looks. Husband is amazing!
This is not a church bulletin copy: it is a real true morning glory. They didn't sprawl over our cinderblock walls like I had hoped, but we learned a trick from some friends so next year looks likely for that. Oh, from SEED!
Zinnia--from seed!
Forgot the name of these--from a tray at walmart.
Hydrangeas, given to me last summer from church for playing the piano. They were blue when we first got them. The first time they bloomed outside this summer they were pink. And have since faded into a comfortable green.
In line with Ten Thousand's Wake's quoting C.S. Lewis' Paradise Lost Preface, I will add another paraphrasical quote: Eden is a place in every man's mind that we must visit often and long for. I feel that when we garden. I wish I had time to wax poetical and stuff but like, we are learning to share around here and that means a lot of supervision. Not pictured: all the herbs from Scarbarough Fair and my 4 ft high fennel. From Seed people. No one is more shocked than me. Husband, thank you for all the work you put into this and how much fun it was!
Our very first pepper from seed!
Pumpkin blossoms.
Spanish flag/nasturtiums: the spanish flag has yet to bloom, but it's growing like crazy.
Dahlia's, from bulb.
Nasturtiums are my favorite discovery--the leaves look like lily pads and the blooms like colored stars. Delightful.
This cute little deck is actually a sandbox.
Designed by yours truly, implemented by husband. It still needs staining, but seriously looks so much better than the previous structure that we tore down. BTW, this deck/sandbox is built almost entirely from the "repurposed" wood that the old thing was made out of.
Wow! I still can't get over how much better it looks. Husband is amazing!
This is not a church bulletin copy: it is a real true morning glory. They didn't sprawl over our cinderblock walls like I had hoped, but we learned a trick from some friends so next year looks likely for that. Oh, from SEED!
Zinnia--from seed!
Forgot the name of these--from a tray at walmart.
Hydrangeas, given to me last summer from church for playing the piano. They were blue when we first got them. The first time they bloomed outside this summer they were pink. And have since faded into a comfortable green.
In line with Ten Thousand's Wake's quoting C.S. Lewis' Paradise Lost Preface, I will add another paraphrasical quote: Eden is a place in every man's mind that we must visit often and long for. I feel that when we garden. I wish I had time to wax poetical and stuff but like, we are learning to share around here and that means a lot of supervision. Not pictured: all the herbs from Scarbarough Fair and my 4 ft high fennel. From Seed people. No one is more shocked than me. Husband, thank you for all the work you put into this and how much fun it was!
6 comments:
love the yard and adorable babies. i have heard that the acidity of your soil depends on the color of your hydrangeas. the more acidic the more blue. you can actually add stuff to your soil to change the color. i am happy with whatever color mine are as long as they are alive!
Oh, I'm impressed with the garden, it's growth and beauty, remembering when you all planted it last spring from the seedlings you started, I think, in February. And was that a gerbera daisy I saw as well? And the sandbox - such an improvement - and so well done - great idea - and good work, Oliver. Can't wait to see it in real life. But the best are the matching swim suits on those precious girls. Can't wait to see them in real life as well. See you soon.
Love,
MOM
WOW! You guys are amazing. You are growing things and building things and they are all quite lovely. I can't grow and Bob doesn't build, so we'll live vicariously through your pictures.
It looks amazing! Wish I could see it for real! Good job.
oh my goodness summer! it looks amazing. im so proud! it is a little corner of eden. My basil and mint and ivy are growing good too, i wish i could grow more though.
I love the way elsa is holding onto heidi's arm with her nimble baby fingers. its precious. i miss you!!!!
Farmer J,
We share your gardening pleasure.
I've been looking through Lewis' books for something I thought I read about gardening that seemed related to your comment(s)/line of thought. Perelandra (a younger Eden) was a world whose Oyarsa "glowed with a warm splendor, full of the suggestion of teeming vegetable life"; Ransom returns to Earth boxed in flower petals. But I think it was the description of Bragdon Wood at the opening of That Hideous Strength & Merlin that had me going...would take too long to quote.
When you Js next visit DE/PA you should all spend a day at Longwood Gardens. I think you'll be glad you did. Just my $.02 :)
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