what's growing now

had to go take a pic of wht is blooming now...
this is my flower mound that hubby said nothing would grow on..hahahahahah






the tiny daisy like flower is camomile, the tall blue and pink are larkspur, the yellow ones are rudbeckia, the hot pink is pink campion
the green balls with the spikes are nigella going to seed, the dried out ones are sweet williams.varigated already in seed
and there is dill and poppies, day lillies, bee balm, orange cosmos just coming, shasta daisies, basil, thyme, sage and a bunch of others all mixed in




fragrant lavendar wher you have to brush up against it


seriously..if any one wants seeds..pm me...

I'm going to send you a PM

Your garden is beautiful. In our area there is group that goes on little tours around and looks at other peoples gardens / flowers. (Garden tours) Do they have that in Pa?

Gardens take a lot of work but they are so relaxing and beautiful to look at. Good work Sky!

yes we do have garden tours ..ususally for big bucks put on by a garden club trying to raise money or Philps conservatory in pgh..
and they are manacured to the n' degree..real magazine places..

you will laugh when i tell you how this one started

hubby lets road guys and anyone with dirt and rocks to dump ..dump down by the barn so he has something to play with -with his backhoe
well one day this contractor with a one ton wanted to dump some nice dirt..hubby says how many loads do you have and the guy says around 5..pretty nice stuff
so hubby says..would you mind driving around the back of the house and dumping it back there..
the guys says no problem
..there are 5 springs up the field slightly elevated above the house and when we get hard rains it looks like the house will float..soo hubby has this idea to make a tiny little bump and plant grass..enough to stop the water but that you could drive the lawn mower over

52 loads later..you could not see the back yard..hahahahahah sure wouldn't want that guy to count anything for me

well after the waiting period..don't forget now..hubby is a first class procrastinator..has awards for it and everything..well he would if he ever went to the meetings and picked them up..but he keeps putting it off..sigh

anyway..he finally gets the backhoe and starts to move this dirt..we discuss the management of this dirt and just how it should be piled up..eventually... it is about 200 plus feet long and about 30/36 inches high
and had more rocks and clay than anything...
i always wanted to plant on a hill...so i was gleefull and moved some plants and being the seed collector that i am ...started to toss out seeds..if you do it right before the rain..mother nature does the hard part..
and what grows..grows and what doesn't feeds something..

so whenever i feel gloomy i just go walk around my wall of dirt that is now my wall of flowers...
i'll find the orginal pic ..you'll laugh

i could never belong to any garden tours cause i like the jungle jumble look with everything tossed together..the garden tours are very manicured..but not my lazy style of gardening..
but i am sooooooooo thrilled to share and so glad you enjoy it

in the beginning 5-11-07



then 6-30-07


finally 7-23-07

10-16-07..a few plant and lots of rocks to be moved





6-4-09 yeah..year two of flowers



and today..this afternoon 7-10-09

That story cracked me up and look how you reversed the situation and turned it into a beautiful wall of flowers

i'm glad you got a chuckle out of it...
every happening no matter how awful in the beginning
can be turned into a 'good' story later..
there is always a silver lining
you just have to look
sometimes harder than others

but this one was easy..more place to put flowers.