jacaranda…

13 Tuesday Apr 2021

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I’ve been looking back at photos from our trip to Maui two years ago… enjoying it a lot…

lovely to have reminders of that special time…

on this day, we visited a lavender farm where we walked through a garden filled wth beautiful flowers, many of which we couldn’t name…

we spent time at Maui Chocolate Coffee tours where we chatted with the farm owners, got to see cacao growing on trees, and tasted a chocolate drink…

and we saw jacaranda trees in bloom… they are purple;-)…

perk…

12 Monday Apr 2021

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it has been snowing off and on since early this morning… very depressing… I had to open the window to get this shot because all the windows were covered in water drops…

and then this box arrived in the mail…

the dahlias I ordered…

that perked me up;-)…

wait…

11 Sunday Apr 2021

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this morning I sprinkled poppy seeds in the garden… hope they take… the poppies are always the first flower to bloom… they self-seed and some years there are just one or two and other years there are lots of blooms… it is amazing that they come back, even after the garden bed was completely dug up eight years ago…

I have also been enjoying the morning glory seedlings… I can hardly wait to plant them outside;-)…

I can see morning glories everywhere;-)…

envious…

05 Monday Apr 2021

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so, my daughter has been sending photos of her African violet… there are four plants in one pot and currently there are over 50 blooms…

mine has one bloom, and I am trying really hard not to be envious, lol…

pictures on left are my 3 plants and the one bloom… on the right is hers, sigh…

soak…

29 Monday Mar 2021

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did a bit more planting…

already have grape tomatoes and milkweed going…

added white alyssum and dahlias… I am not expecting anything from the dahlias… I brought them in and bagged them in the fall, but they don’t feel full, so we will see if anything pops up… if not I already have new ones ordered which should come sometime in May…

also put datura and morning glories in to soak before they get planted…

found this sunflower smiling at me in one of the planters where I will be putting morning glories, lol…

ruthless…

24 Wednesday Mar 2021

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planted the first of the seeds… spent time one day getting the containers set up… most of them have lids so they will be like little greenhouses…

used a couple of egg cartons for the grape tomatoes…

last year I popped some tiny wrinkled tomatoes into a bit of soil and they did very well, so I have decided to try again this year;-)…

I have learned to be ruthless and will remove some from each container once they start growing…

oldest…

17 Wednesday Mar 2021

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I’ve been thinking of how much harder this pandemic would be for me without my oldest grandson…

very early on I lent him my car with the agreement that he would do any errands that I needed…

since then, he has fetched and carried numerous items for me… he finds groceries that I can’t get from Save-On-Foods… he collects items I need to keep the fish happy… plants and bird seed have been delivered… and mail sent… he has also brought his brother over to mow and shovel…

on the few occasions that I needed to drive somewhere, he has brought the car for me and then picked it up when I was done…

today he came by with a few hard-to-find items including flowers, and then moved some planters for me…