Seed-spiration My seed buying for next year has already started! I’m only five or six months ahead of time! We are planning a prairie garden for a space behind our barn where we used to plant pumpkins, melons, and one year, even corn! My husband and I found that although we both like to plant,…
Poinsettia’s are some of my favorite plants. Cee’s FOTO Challenge for today is on this lovely specimen. The holiday season really doesn’t start in my home until I have a poinsettia or two livening up the decor in my home. Usually, we get two to three huge plants from Sam’s Club for about $15.00 each!…
Today is sunny and although cold, one can still see the grass has some green and the hydrangea heads are brown, but there is very little other color. I am a color sensitive person. My preference is for deep, jewel-toned colors and this is reflected in what I take photographs of and even the jewelry…
Have any of you made a mood board? Well, I haven’t either but need to make one for one of my last assignments for grad school. It is to accompany a “Design for Optimal Learning” lesson that I create. Although I know what components I would want to make a design for optimal learning, choosing…
Brown Landscape with Punches of Green I cannot seem to get over the difference in landscape between the mid-western and southwestern parts of the United States. Although both are beautiful in their own ways, I have to say that I prefer green over brown. Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Yucca Valley, as well as the surrounding…
For the first time ever this year I planted flowering Kale. I used it both in my home gardens as well as the gardens at school. It is so colorful with the contrasts of green, pink, and purple that I feel it lends a great deal to the garden border. Offering the varying colors on…
For the first time ever, I got to teach a class during a summer school session today. It sounds kind of crazy but I have always wanted to teach summer school. For many years, I asked. For many years, nothing came of it. But, being at a different school this year, in a different district,…
The month of May was consuming. This year, I had a new school garden to manage. It is very large, much larger than the school garden I was previously in charge of caring for. It’s been a struggle to get it planted and weeded. Before planting with each of the 400+ students that attend this…
Exciting News! The milkweed is up in my garden at home and the gardens at school! Here are some photographs from yesterday. Mother Nature Provides Milkweed erupts in the spring prior to the arrival of the Monarchs. This is Mother Nature’s way of ensuring that once the Butterflies arrive from their Journey Northward (migrating north…
Below is my submission for Flower of the Day Challenge: Geranium for May 3rd from Cee’s Photography. It is a Johnson’s Blue Geranium in my yard, several years ago. Enjoy its beauty.