Blooming in the Garden - July 7

What is blooming in the garden this week? Unfortunately, nothing. Today the things growing in the garden we reduced to little green sticks. While we were in desperate need of water (things were frighteningly dry) when it came today it was in the unfortunate form of hail. During the massive hail (with thunder and lighting) storm today we, the 'children' and I, sat helplessly as things were pounded into little green mush and pitiful green sticks by the pea to nickle sized hail.


I guess we will see what recovers over the coming weeks and when in doubt there is always next season!

Blooming in the Garden - June 22nd

In honor of Summer, I am introducing a new addition! During the, admittedly short, growing season, I am going to introduce my blooming friends out in the garden. With the sweet baby, the garden got off to a slow start this year, but we still managed to plant a few things! With the rather dry and cold year it looks like it will be a challenge to make much progress, so let's see how things grow!

This week we have a rose popping open on the rose bush we earlier saved from spider mites. (At least we hope they are gone...) It is a new member of the garden family this year, gifted to us by a friend on Mother's Day at Phoebe's First Tea Party! It smells sweet and spicy, with the prettiest vibrant pink blooms!
We also have chive flowers on the chive plants! The chives are return friends, who were planted last season! I must say chives are so hardy that I might just grow a ton of chives, I mean they taste great on potatoes and even have pretty purple flowers!

Many other things are sprouting, but we will wait for them to get going before we meet them! Now if I can just get the dog to stop eating half the things I plant we might get somewhere with this garden thing! When more things bloom, I will meet you in the garden!