Warm sun is shining down from clear blue skies today with high temps of 58 degrees. Simply glorious! One of those stimulating days of early spring when you want to grab the yard rake and begin the clean up of winters mess and its scattered branches, limbs and twigs, that are spread around the yard. The lawn and garden still crusted with patches of dirty snow. A new season of growth, earthy blue-green shoots of daffodils and tulips are starting to peek through the bare dark soil reaching toward the warm light.
Singing out a mating call, busy songbirds have begun gathering twigs and dried golden grass for nesting. It’s been one of those days you open all the windows breathing in the fresh air letting the cool breeze dance through the room; a spring cleansing. Surely spring is on its way!
I have corned beef & cabbage cooking in the Crock-pot, Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Stay well my friend!
**photograph texture by Kim Klassen @ Shutter Sisters**
Weather here the past couple of days have just been gloriously sunny with a cool breeze and comfortable temperatures in the low 70s. So refreshing after the hot dry summer that was just too brutal to get outside in the garden. Between daughters wedding and hot humidity, the green thumb went purple and the grass brown. No vegetable garden had been planted only a few herbs. This year it just didn’t happen.
After Sunday brunch taking full advantage of the beautiful weather, decided it’s a good time to cash in on a gifted certificate received back in April, and headed on over to the local garden center. In hope of walking into and end of season sale of autumnal blooming perennial shrubs. These are the beauties I came home with.
Coppertina Ninebark
Later in the season the leaves will turn a coppery-orange with red fruit and in the early summer bloom white flowers. It will grow 6’ to 8’ tall and a width of 5’.
Calluna Red
Planted in front of the Coppertina Ninebark are three evergreen shrubs of various shades of green spiked with reddish pink blossoms, they will grow 14” high with a width of 18”.
Lavender Chiffon Rose of Sharon
This lovely will grow to be 8’ high and 6’ wide filling in the corner to the right of the Coppertina.
I hope your all outside enjoying the gorgeous weather in your garden too, or doing something you enjoy. If not get on out there it won’t be long from now we’ll be shoveling snow!
Stay well my friend and have a blessed week!
Leaves of yellow orange red
flickering like lit embers,
underneath the autumn harvest moon.
Naked branching out into a hibernating death
leaves of yellow orange red
underneath the autumn harvest moon.
A death a rebirth leaves crisp veins crunch below
leaves of yellow orange red
underneath the autumn harvest moon
–Betty Thompson
My favorite thing this week: is a little 4″ Lenox vase I purchased at the flea market last weekend for $2. I slipped in a few blossoms of greek oregano and some dainty roses from the garden. Priceless!
Have a blessed day and stay well my friend!
When I planted my first herb garden this past spring my original thought was culinary, for spicing up a few dishes, and salads. Fresh herbs deliver a stronger spicier taste than bottled dried spice, and their, easy and fun to grow. Over the summer I’ve snipped here and there through the different varieties of thyme, basil, oregano, mint, and a few others for tea. Surprisingly, I didn’t expect the dainty flowering foliage towards the end of the season to be so full of beauty when set in a small size vase.
Happy Monday! Have a great week and stay well my friend!
