Love seeing the Flowers Bloom

Last week was beautiful here in North Carolina, but today is a little on the chili side!!  It's so nice to see all the flowers and trees blooming as I have ventured out last week... I just wish mine would begin to bloom :(

I purchased a few boxes of wild flower seeds last year and never planted them, but plan to after this cold spurt moves past us this week.

I don't have much of a "green-thumb" so I like to go with flowers that are easy to keep alive and come back every year (lol).

I plan to plant these around my well that is next to my fish pond.  I already have a few flowers that are there that return yearly, but they don't bloom long and wanted to add something that does.  Here is a picture of the current ones in bloom last year...

Hopefully they will come back just as beautify this year!  Last year, surprisingly, the orange-looking flowers multiplied and there were yellow ones; so, I am hoping that they will return as well.

Can't wait for them to start where I can share pictures with you all.. I love Spring and all the beautiful flowers bloom this time of year!!

Papa's Garden Today

In my last post, Papa's Garden Destroyed in the Storm, I promised that I was show how we decided to redo the fish pond after the hurricane uprooted trees and destroyed the progress we had made!!

If you have been following the fish pond progress from the beginning you'll know that we have been using the thick black plastic liner in previous versions; however, when we went to Lowe's to get it they didn't have it in stock.  We chose to get the white vinyl instead, thinking it would be just as good (later I will tell you why this wasn't a good idea).


Once we had everything we needed to get started, we removed our fish and put them in a large tote with some of the water from the pond a some fresh water.


When we pulled up the black liner the ground looked really cool with the roots slightly showing through the dirt.

My youngest daughter said that it looked like veins (lol), but it really did look like that in a way..

Don't ya think?

Once we rolled the plastic out and ready to start filling it up, we went ahead and put the fish back into their home.

We just poured the water that they were in into the pond, this way there is less of a shock to them; and less fish will die in the process!

I think they were happy to be back in pond where they have a much bigger space to swim!!

It really was starting to come together and I was loving the look!!!

Once everything was in place it was time to finish up a few little details to make it complete!!!

We purchased a 1000 pound bag of sea rocks for around $35 to use to fill in the area around the pound for now instead of doing flowers at the time, which I really do think was a great choice because they looked amazing!!!  

We had the lantern looking thing, the birdbath, AND my husband built me a little bridge to go across it (for looks).

We even decided to add a light inside the lantern to allow it to be seen at night!  I really liked the way it looked at night... it really turned out beautifully when it was finished!!!  Don't you think so?

So... I promised I would tell you all why the white liner wasn't the best idea; so, hear it goes....

Papa's Garden Destroyed in the Storm!

When we finish the fish pond it was beautiful and all I wanted.

*If you missed how we got here, you can check it out at
http://believeinnewme.blogspot.com/2015/12/building-fish-pond-final-steps.html

However, not long after it was complete (May 2011) Hurricane Irene came through and really messed it up for us!!  It uprooted some tree's and unfortunately the roots from a Pine tore and punctured the liner.

Therefore, Papa's Garden was destroyed and we have to redo it all over again... ugh!  BUT at least that was the only thing that was destroyed... it could have been worse!!

A few tree's down can be taken care of.. thankful we didn't have any damage to our family, home, or cars.... However, we did have to suffer without power for 4 or 5 days, which really sucked as hot as it was!!



Temporarily, we had to do something to the pond so that our fish didn't die; but it looked  like a hott-mess for a little while as you can see here  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


This version unfortunately never went much further than what you see because of limited time and finances; and stayed this way for a little too long (in my opinion).  However, when it finally got a makeover it was so PRETTY!!!



... I'm a little short on time tonight to share it, but I will share that with you all tomorrow night!!

Until then ~Ginny

JoAnne's Garden

                           

My garden is growing and I have veggies on the vines now. Here are a few pictures. 

As you can see in the above pictures, I have some peppers growing and they look pretty good. 

This is the picture of my squash, and I have several more blooms on the vine. 

And these babies are my tomatoes. I have at least two or three on each plant and some more blooms. So they are growing good. 

This is a long shot of my garden. I have been trying to keep the grass out from around the plants at least, but it is a job. 


*****Clip art at top of page link - http://www.stjohnsji.co.uk/school-clubs-1/gardening. 

Garden Update

My garden is coming right along. I have had only a few plants die. One of pepper plants and one of my squash plants didn't make it but the rest of the garden is looking pretty good.

I haven't done a lot with the soil yet, I have been just trying to keep out as many weeds as I can right now. I'm not sure all of the butter beans are going to make it, but I am hopeful. 

The above picture is of the butter beans that are beginning to sprout. Some actually have leaves and the other ones look like this. So, like I said, I am not sure they are going to make it but I'm hopeful. 

My Beautiful Garden

I made this picture extra large on purpose. If you are familiar with gardening then you can spot the snap beans. The back row is peppers and tomatoes, the next row is corn, cucumbers and squash. The next row is the snaps. I can't wait, this is so exciting seeing my garden grow.

Gardening Paradise

Woo Hoo!!!! My garden is sprouting people!! We have had to deal with tropical depression Anna here near the coast of North Carolina so we have gotten lots of rain in the last few days. This rain has helped my garden sprout.

I have had so much fun outside recently. I love the feel of squishy dirt between my toes and fingers!! Check out my garden....

 The picture above are my sunflowers. I need to weed it out, which I will do this weekend.

           The picture above is either snap beans or butter beans.

                                                           This is my corn.

                                                Bean Sprout.

My garden is a big focus of mine this season, but I am also working on some landscaping in my yard. 

 This is a picture of the Hydrangea plant my son got me for Mother's Day. He also took that particular photo.

This photo is my rose bush, perennial and some purple flowers in the back. I forget what they are called. (Sorry, new to the whole gardening and landscaping hobby)

 This photo is the perennial and a little cedar type tree.

 This is the other perennial that I planted on the opposite side of the porch. I do realize I need to rake up the ground more and possibly put down more red bark. That is my plan for the weekend, to really get it cleaned up and looking spectacular.

Please leave me a comment and let me know what types of flowers and plants you have in your yard.