Yellow Wildflowers

A lot of what I have here are more of less weeds but at least it's color and put in the right places they can even be pretty.

 I really believe in that old saying "a weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place"

These are wild geraniums given to me nearly 20 years ago by a neighbor as a housewarming gift. i started with just 3 plants and now they are more or less everywhere. Before I was confined to my wheelchair I had planned to round a lot of them up into some regular flower beds with geraniums of other colors. that would have been great.

New Caterpillars

14 painted lady caterpillars arrived on May 13th. The following photos cover the 15th thru the 17th. I find it amazing how quickly they change some are already in chrysalis and the others are getting there. Wiggling round and round as they wind the silk around them to build theirs.

I've got video too but haven't decided whether or not to add that too.

It's May 22nd as I write this. Things just got busy and I had company ( at a distance of course) the day that I moved the finished chrysalis's into the net habitat. I was busy doing all the work it takes to transfer them safely and my husband was busy as the 2 of them watched the process so no one shot any photos.

Three didn't manage to attach themselves firmly to the top so we collected them carefully from the bottom and laid them on these pieces of paper towel so they will have another chance to emerge as butterflies.

All that remains now is to mist them from time to time until the butterflies begin to emerge.

May 25,2020

Things have been moving really fast the last few days. There are only two butterflies waiting to emerge from chrysalis.

My Garden Plan So Far

I tried to make this page more interesting by adding bits of seed packets and garden catalogs between my drawings and lists. This step isn't anything you need to do but it feeds my soul and cheers me up. 

I'll be starting another page for the rolling planter which is planted with strawberries, red carrots and a special variety of broccoli that doesn't make a big head like regular broccoli it makes lots of individual  shoots to be cut as needed for salads and things.

This box at the edge of the garden has strawberries and purple carrots.

This box is for color and fun. Right now it's got daffodils, violets, marigolds and wild geraniums.
If we get any annuals they'll go here.

There are several sizes of round planters with different things in them too. Here's a short list of what's in them:

These are my favorite daffodils. when they finish blooming they'll be planted in the front flower bed for next year.

This round planter has now has strawberries and lettuce in it.

The large, round planter in this photo has the center reserved for a tomato,  a middle ring of marigolds and lettuce around the edge. The Middle size round planter is full of yellow beets and small one is daffodils and marigolds.

They all seem to be coming along well so far.

Living Room Lettuce

It just can't be much more convenient than having home grown lettuce right in your living room except of course if you have  room for it in your dining room or kitchen (I don't).

Yes, the tall, bright green plant in the planter is one from the living room planter.

This seemed like a good time to experiment with finishing hydroponic plant in regular garden soil.

Rolling Planter Box

We started by building a wooden planter box inside of an old greenhouse wagon.

This area at the end of the driveway is my container garden. The planter box will follow the sun around between here and the house.

Odd pieces of similar siding will make it a close match for the house and the studio so that it will look nice wherever it is parked.

There is still a bit of work to be done around the area but we're still pretty happy about it.

I started moving some of the strawberries here so that I will be able to do all of the work on them myself this year.

As you can see these plants are very small and I'm still trying to inter-plant several varieties that I like the qualities of so that the bees will cross them naturally so that we will have our very own type of strawberry. I'm also trying to cross it with wild strawberries so that we will end up with heartier plants and bigger berries.