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Lovely hyacinths

May 11, 2008 by Tricia

JoinI’ve been enjoying my hyacinths this year. I don’t seem to have as many as other years though so the bulbs must be starting to die out. I’ll have to purchase more this fall for planting.This coral one is one of my favorites. I just love the color:

Then there’s these pink ones. In this photo they were just starting to develop. I think this particular plant had sparse blooms too.

Finally, there’s this deep blue hyacinth. I have some purple ones as well, but this one is more blue than purple, even though the photo makes it look purple.

I hope that you’re enjoying this lovely Mother’s day weekend and spending some time with family.

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Strawberry plants are flowering already!

May 9, 2008 by Tricia

Look at this! I took this photo about a week and a half ago – my strawberry plants are beginning to flower already!

You know what that means don’t you? We’ll probably have strawberries by early June! Yeah baby, fresh strawberries. Yum.

the best thing about the strawberry plants that we have is that they keep producing fruit well into late September or even early October! Some strawberry plants only produce one or two crops early in the season, but ours are every producing ones.

I can’t wait to taste a fresh strawberry from my garden. I just hope my puppy doesn’t get to them before we do!

Flowers springing up everywhere

May 6, 2008 by Tricia

My garden is looking lovely this year. It seems that almost each day a new plant has sprung up or a flower has started to bloom.

Here’s a close up of one of the tulip buds that was about to bloom a week ago when I took this photo. There are even more flowers filling the garden now.

Our puppy has been pretty good about staying out of the garden.

A month ago we started saying “no garden’ every time she went near our flower beds or anyone else’s when we were walking her. However lately she’s been sticking her nose into the garden to smell things. I guess even she can’t resist the smell of all the new plants that have been springing up.

Yellow tulips and Glory of the Snow- beautiful spring flowers

April 27, 2008 by Tricia

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I just realized that I don’t have enough yellow tulips growing in my garden. You might remember last year I kept posting about my orange tulips. They were so pretty and I was in love with their fiery color, but this year I think yellow has captured my interest.

The yellow tulip that I’ve shown above is a lily flowering tulip I believe. Some of it’s petals will be slightly longer than the rest and they’ll spread out very much like a lily. Quite pretty really.

Another flower that’s looking lovely in my garden this spring is the Glory of the Snow flowers. I have several clumps of them growing in the front and back garden beds in pink, white and purple/blue. Most of the ones in the back garden are starting to fade away, but the ones in the front, where it’s shadier are at their prime.

Are there any plants that you really enjoy each spring?

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Looking forward to fresh strawberries from the garden

April 20, 2008 by Tricia

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I can’t believe that as soon as the snow melts each year my strawberry plants look pretty much like the picture above. Green leaves and all. Sure there are a few dead leaves that I have to remove, but the plants are thriving and ready to start growing by the end of March each year.

The strawberries thrive in my garden … each year they send out new shoots and new plants begin to grow … often in areas that I don’t want them to grow. I just cut them off and plant them near the edge of a garden bed. I end up throwing out or giving away a lot of the new strawberry plants each year too. However, since I’m always replanting new plants, and for the most part the older plants keep returning, I end up with more and more strawberries each year.

The best thing about these strawberry plants is that they start producing berries usually by mid June and they keep going often until October so I have strawberries all season.

The only foreseeable problem this year is the dog.

A week ago I saw strawberries on sale in the grocery store and bought some so that Chris and I could have strawberries for dessert. Well, I ended up letting Midnight taste the strawberries and she loved them. Now of course she knows what this delicious treat looks like so I’m hoping she doesn’t notice them in the garden or else she’ll end up eating them before we can pick them.

I know dogs and cats can cause havoc in the garden, but do any of you have a dog or cat that singles out a fruit or veggie that they like and eat it straight from the garden bed?