Sharing my garden

 

I have been spending a lot of my extra

time in the garden.

 

 

sitting on the deck

 

 

 

The new garden beds around the green house have filled in.

 

 

I am really in to using herbs this year.

medicinal  herbs to help with my insomnia

& cooking herbs.

I have been drying and

 preparing them to use later.

 

I plan to make up some seasoning mixes and tea mixes

 

 

This year I added 5 rose bushes.

 

 

hoping they will flourish

 

 

I'm calling these two my Loranger roses

since my husband bought them for me at

a nursery we stopped at on the way to

find my 2x Great Grandfather's

 Peter J. Loranger's and relatives graves.

 

 

 

 

Peppers and bunny lettuce

 

 and more bunny lettuce!

 

 

I am attempting pumpkins for

the first time.

 

 

A bug house my friend

Connie surprised me with!

I love it.

 

 

The purple flower has attracted humming birds

which I was thrilled to see 2 times.

Once when I was sitting next to it with

my parrot Murphy on my shoulder.

 

 

This pot I planted with 2 plants.

I love how it filled in.

 

 

 

this bunny pot I made for a

a business idea I have in the future. 

I have to test out how it holds up outside.

 

 

 

 

 

I love lanterns,  and sitting here you can hear

 the gurgling of the pond

fountain which is soothing and sounds peaceful

 

 

yes there is a gold fish pond  in there

with many happy feeder fish that escaped 

being dinner and are living the dream!

 

 

On the weekends when it's not to hot

the birds get to have breakfast outside. 

 

 

 

 

I've planted all my favorites and

it feels lush and full to me.

 

 

 

 

 

Ferns are another favorite of mine 

 

 

 

I hope you are enjoying your summer.

I love, love, love gardening!

and I am so grateful to have a

lovely little yard to grow pretty

things in.  Nature seems to love it too

as the robins ate every single cherry I was

excited to see this year and never got to enjoy.

Also something....probably a squirrel 

ate all the green plums before

they turned purple and all

the sunflower tops off before they

even bloomed.  I guess my yard was a good

thing in the middle of  a hot drought.

I have many bird baths and water sources for

bugs and ground animals.

The robin babies that nested on my front porch

area were able to stay full on

cherries and raspberries.

At first I wasn't too pleased and then I remembered

that passage in the Bible that

said God provides even for the smallest bird

so maybe I was his helper to provide for them.

 

 

This little bird house

is also on it's 3rd set of

hatchlings of eggs

THIS summer!

 

Have a Wonderful summer!