Tag: gardening

grow what you wanna eat

these are going to become blueberries…i have five blueberry bushes, 8 years of age. you know what that means? i will have too many blueberries to eat…if you own dirt, consider planting blueberry bushes, they are beautiful & give fruit. AND they will bring big, fat bees…

i will take the peach

tree. i’ve had this wee peach tree for three years now.  i’ve seen peaches almost grown large enough to eat…however, the deer always eat them first, for they are not as picky as i am. the house must be sold within 5 months…i do hope the new owners love fruit. i have 8yr old blueberry…

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the shy one

So shy, is the Lentin Rose…i try hard to find a point of a spring flower who fears the sunlight. these are forced, with wire, to face me. a bit like putting a finger under the chin of a small child, to lift the face & be astonished by their beauty. happy spring Alabama

“Let me narrow this down for you Southerners”

Winter in Alabama is so crazy. It can be 70F one day, then 30F degrees the next. Jack Frost took the pepper mint candy color out of my flower. Crazy weather tricked this to flower too soon. Crazy weather…but no one said it better than my friend Molly as seen above on her Facebook page….

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