Gardening, anyone?

Magicalbean, what a great opportunitny to take the Master Gardener program. My SIL took at least one and loved it. Brrr on your snow right now.

Bluebird, I love to watch the birds as well and have 3 feeders out where I can see them from the sunroom.

Mommyof2, DH bought me a battery charged mower once as I begged for it. However, he says I take too long to decide to cut the grass and he does it. Oops.

Ananda, I reallllly want to buy him one as I know it cut down on his mowing time. he tells me he gets dizzy mowing around all my "stuff".

Gardennerd, I grew those round zucchinni a few years and they did well. The problem for me growing any kind of squash is the squash bug. They can destroy a plant in one day. I am only going to grow spaghetti squash this year just because it is another fun veggie that does super well in our heat.

Enerva, I don't know what that plant is but.WOW!

Going out dancing tonight, so no planting until tomorrow. :-)

~Heidi

Enerva, it looks like a type of Prayer Plant, but I'm not sure. They come in different colors.

The rain has finally stopped for a few hours but boy is it cold out in that wind!

The dish guy was here at 8 and was done at 10. The device they told him to install was not the one I agreed to, so I refused to allow him to install it. He called in and told them his directions were wrong and customer didn't order the device dish told him to install. He installed the one my online request said I'd ordered. Nuff said.

Yep. Watch the knees

Spring is finally coming to new england. Peach tree in bloom. Tons of rain here too.

Ditto flaviarose! We actually got several hours of sunshine today!

I went out to check on my bales today and everything seems to be sprouting. I have all my beans and peas coming up and my cucs, zucchini and squash are also. I was floored at how warm the bales are! Everything is nice and toasty. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed everything will root into the bale of straw. With the heat in the bales I think I did something right! 😜

I want another rubber tree plant. I had one but my mom killed it when she was here taking care of me after my mastectomy. I have a snake plant that is growing like crazy.

Enervia .I love your pots on your balcony ..lots of great succrnlents , and the Red Maple .

Flaviarose .great to see that spring has finally sprung , and you can enjoy your beautiful peach tree !

It sure is. And that little bugger has tripled in size from when I got it two years ago.

Awh Enerva - such a shame the plant is not yours. With the help of WenchLori (good eye by the way) I found it. It is a Calathea Orbifolia.

Its a cousin of the prayer plant. https://kensnursery.com/product/stunning-calathea-orbifolia/ It is a beautiful plant.

Love the pics of the baby hosta's and others. Looking at your choices, I noticed no hanging plants. If you ever would like an interesting delicate hanging plant you should check out this one called String of Hearts https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrBT7zzTw5Zp2AAItxXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEycTdlYjQzBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjM5NTBfMQRzZWMDc2M-?p=string+of+heart+plant&fr=yfp-t#id=0&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pernellgerver.com%2Fstringofhearts.jpg&action=click

It grows very easy, somewhat contained to just drapping downward so it takes up minimal space. And its vines can grow out 2-3 feet.

Mommyof2 - My first houseplant was a rubber tree. I loved him. His name was George. He did not handle a long distance move and my unfortunate neglect (I was young and stupid)

WenchLori I am so looking forward to seeing your bale garden's progress. Warm roots are good.

Flaviarose since I live on the Gulf Coast I have to admit I enjoyed your pics for the view you have. Very beautiful.

Aside, my tractor requires to check the air in the tires before I use of late as the two front tires have slow leaks. Hubby offered to fix, but I didn't want to add to his list and was occasionally airing them up for now. Well? . . . ladies I had good news on a second biopsy Friday that came back benign. When we got back home I wanted to do some work on the lawn tractor. Basically I run the mower over a large spot of leaves on the ground to suck up to use as mulch. I was so excited that I forgot to check my tractors tires and literally ran one of the tires off of its rim.

Now I'm dreading to have to go back in the house and tell hubby what I've done and caused MORE work for him. Well? guess the good news of the day was the best time for me to had done that. His answer, " no problem" and hugged me with a big smile.

Gardennerd, yay! You found it! I've tried growing prayer plants but I seem to just kill them. I wonder if this plant could withstand my attention?

Scotty, wow! What interesting flowers and plants. Lve it!

Enerva, Love the red maple in the pot. My dad used to make bonsai trees and he had a few tiny red maples. WenchLori, no, I've never heard the dogwood story, do tell.

While I was getting my 5,000 steps in today I wandered down to the pond. I heard the rushing water from our neighbor's pond pouring into ours and decided to snap a picture. I didn't realize how tranquil the picture would be until I looked at it a few hours later.

Enjoy

I am enjoying everyones pictures although I havent done much due to cold weather. Yesterday I did some weeding and planted my biggest container on the south porch. I figure it should be safe and can always haul it in if I need to.

I like succulents and cactus for indoors because they are so easy care. But that calathea picture was beautiful!

Flavia, bonsai is one of the things I would like to try one day and thats what I thought when I saw the maple too. Saw a beautiful bonsai red maple one time. That and a fairy garden, terrariums, a garden train are all things I would like to do. Maybe I will retire one day and be able to do those things!

A perfect yellow rose amidst the cholla cactus at my neighbors house