Good afternoon Folks ~ This morning I was going through some old pictures and came across an instant photo DH had taken of me in March 1982. This is the start of my main garden. It had rained and I was out there trying to save little beet seedlings, and whatever else I had. I didn't have a clue about gardening really and I think someone had given me these seeds. I had a flesh colored bareback top on, and a jean skirt, and I was much younger and thinner then.
Here was this same space in April of this year.
28 years later, my garden has grown from one to several,
and my love of gardening is still growing strong.
This morning I got outside and worked in the main garden for the first time in weeks. Other things have been going on, so it really felt good getting out there today. There was even one lone crepe myrtle bloom opening, along with new leaves coming out.
Below are more pictures I took this afternoon.
This is a pot of Coleus on the northeast side of our back screened room.
Here we have a Bleeding Heart
Clerodendrum thomsoniae
The next two pictures are Russelia equisetiformis,
Firecracker Plants.
I've had the red for years and got the yellow a couple of years ago.
The next two pictures are of two Bougainvillea that I have. The reddish one grows happily with Louis Philippe (Florida Cracker) rose up and over my shed.
Louis Philippe rose
Begonia blooms.
St. Vincent Lilac ~ Solanum seaforthianum
Plumbago
La Marne
Pink Pet or Caldwell's Pink
"From December to March,
there are for many of us three gardens -
the garden outdoors,
the garden of pots and bowls in the house,
and the garden of the mind's eye."
Katherine S. White
Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL
