Gardening, anyone?

Jazzy, Thank You!!

PCP is pleased that I keep busy with gardening.

Deer nipped off the tops of sunflowers in the (V) garden. (

Lovely!

Jazzygirl - LOVE the sunflower pic. Brought a smile for the morning. The website was a good reminder of how gardening is good for us. I often think of my gardening as my sanctuary. I don't look at is as the four letter word "w-o-r-k". The site reminded me of all the physical aspects of it. Gardening is like mothers natures yoga, it provides mental and physical stretching.

Loving all the other pics from everyone. I just love the pics!!

Haven't been out to my garden since yesterday to water it. This afternoon we have been getting thunderstorm after thunderstorm. At least I won't have to water it tomorrow.

The deer ate my sunflowers haha.

Sunflowers might be gone, but not the rest of the garden

Gotta check the garden when I go to hang out hubby's laundry today. Hopefully the rain a couple of days ago helped it.

Well my pea plants have died. Only got about a handful out othe. Usually I get a sandwich bag full

Good afternoon friends- the dry desert is finally getting more moisture from the summer monsoons! We have had about four days of rain off and on the past week, including two good soakers yesterday. My yard is so grateful. We may get some more this afternoon too, I already see the clouds building.

I am a bit worried about my chinese pistache tree though as it is getting yellow leaves and a bit too early to see fall color changes here. It may be stressed from the heat. I will ask the tree people when they are here to prune the ash tree out front in another couple weeks what they thing is going on. The tree was planted five years ago and looks very healthy otherwise. I know sometimes when trees get stressed, the leaves talk to you.

I havent been on in several weeks and am enjoying catching up. Jealous of all the vegetables I see and wish I had a veggie garden. My flowers are very happy this year so I thought I would show you the combo of allyssum and ageratum Iam loving. I love this so much I told my hubby I wanted to paint the door of our white house "ageratum". He said no.

TwoHobbies ..yep ..they certainly look like "happy flowers " to me 😃

Ladies, I am a month behind in post reading. Been working too much which is a blessing but I'm not keeping up with much else.

Nan, just saw your post. Next spring I would love more advice on the mini hostas. I'm going to have to curtail my big spending on gardening for a year or so but will be doing small projects for sure.

I have two hummingbirds that I have been stalking with my camera. I've only gotten one good pix so far which I still need to download to the computer. Maybe today.

Scottie

Good evening friends- well, the southwest is finally getting some rain and I am going to Home Depot tonight to pick up some small mums to plant in the garden as things begin to cool and to help the front garden that got trashed in the heat this summer have a bit of life for the next few months. Got a few other things in pots I will put in the ground too to spruce things up. I will have to start over next spring with some of the perrenials that got fried this year.

I was out in CA this past week visiting family and got a few photos of some nice flowers in bloom, and my sister's lemon treet that is chock full of fruit right now. We had fresh lemons off the tree several times during my visit. YUM!

Very nice. If we don't get any rain in the morning, I a, going to go out in my garden and see if I have more beans ready to pic

Here are some of our sweet potatoes. They have been gently rinsed. Once dry I will wrap them in newspaper.

Our friends, Kathy and Scott, came over to help gather them.

We gave them a large grocery sack of sweet potatoes as well as herbs, cucumbers, peppers ... .

Last year when I had the hard chemo, Kathy gathered ALL the potatoes. She did all the cleaning and wrapping.

She was one who has "showed up" for us thru all of this.

I feel blessed.

Coach Vicky