2016

January 1st, 2016

My hope as the new year starts, I can post more here on my blog. I have been easily distracted with many other things in my life, and writing here has taken a back seat.

I have been many fun and beautiful places in the last year, and have neglected to share any of it with this blog.

This year I am hoping to purchase a camera to help me take better pictures. I am also looking to improve the way I take videos of the hummingbirds. I have started to do this again, and I am finding the quality is not the best.

Male Hummingbird 12/31/2015

So Happy New Year everyone. And may the sun shine brightly, the rain fall gently, and the gardens grow magnificently.

 

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End of May

Here is some pictures of the deck today. My sweet peas have started to flower. I have gotten a pretty blue and a nice deep red so far. My morning glories are climbing very well. They have put out a flower here and there. I have been dead heading the flowers each evening to try and get the vines to put out more.

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One of these window boxes have carnation seeds in them. It is the one closest to me as I am taking this picture. I am not sure how tall they will get before they bloom. I have one more window box that I could plant in. I am thinking of buying some carnations for it.

The Geraniums are doing very well. I have a red and a pink. The pink is all from cuttings I took from a plant someone here at the apartment building threw out. The ‘mother’ plant is looking a lot better since I cut it back. I have a bunch of cuttings just sitting in water, that I think I will ninja plant around the apartment property.

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My baby cedar is doing very well. This will be its 3rd year with me. It has gotten nice and tall. I have been getting nice new growth on the ends of the branches.

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The fountain is looking a bit cluttered. But all those plants are wild flower seeds that I threw in the base of most of my pots. Not all of them are doing well. But some have just exploded.

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I am going to try and learn how to make pottery this coming month. not sure exactly when. BUT the plan is to make a hummingbird bath. I am still working on how I would like it to work/look. But the goal is a shallow dish for the hummingbird to take a bath in, and possibly water falling down into it.

Well that is all I have this week.

I hope everyone has a great weekend.

Changes to the site:

I have not been updating this site as often as I should. So I am making some changes.

I have removed all advertising. I may remove the links to the other gardening blogs, as many of them are not linking back to me.

I am also re-evaluating my hosting, and the costs associated with it. I do not want to loose this URL. I rather like it, but if I can not afford the finances then I will have to give it up.

I will post again here in a few weeks to tell folks who still follow this page what I am going to do.

Melissa