Gardening, anyone?

rachelcarter- what beautiful flowers. Pink is my favorite color.

But there is a LOVE button

Thanks- I love my orchids. They provide me with endless hours a pleasure. I do not have a greenhouse. My real challenge is the summer heat in Miami. I try to move my orchids to as much shade as possible and keep my fingers crossed. I really enjoy the pictures of spring peeking out during winter time up north. For so many of you, hearing a bird sing or piece of greenery or flowers blooming must be a relief knowing warmer weather is around the corner. For so many of you, winter was brutal this year.

I ordered some hardy lavender early this spring. Will probably buy a rose-cone to protect it during the winter. I am watching my mint-garden for signs of growth.

I love the pics ladies, keep em coming. I saw my first bee last friday and some butterflies in the gardens over the weekend. More things are blooming here and more pics to come soon!

After watching this bird's nest fern slowly unfurl, it is now exploding into SPRING!!! So exciting!!! So beautiful!!!

So grateful to be here to see another spring...

Gumdoctor

Beautiful fern.

Another orchid blooming. I went almost nine months without any orchids blooming after Hurricane Irma in September of 2017. During the past few weeks my orchids are starting to bloom again. My orchids thrive on benign neglect. I'm constantly flattering them but always forgetting to fertilize.

gumdoctor- I remember a few years ago I had given my friend an artificial Orchid for her 85th birthday. The only reason I had given her an artificial plant is because she prefers silk flowers over living flowers.She asked for care instructions for her new orchid.

The only orchid that blossomed again was the yellow and brown one that smells like chocolate.

Impressive fern. Good that it's out of reach of cats.

MC Baker,

I think the fern is some kind of hybrid between bird's nest and staghorn ferns. I have had them before and never had one with fronds like the one in the last picture!

All the previous ones looked like this little one to the right. It is tiny on purpose for this tiny bathroom corner.

They are both doing very well and I cannot take any credit for their success. I just stand back in awe and love them and feel so fortunate that I am the one who gets to enjoy them and their simple beauty.

The kitties can reach the big one but they leave it alone thankfully. They chew on different ones. I have taken to birdcages and tall plant stands so they have nowhere to perch for their unrequited chewing desires...

Gardening is SO challenging...the things I think are easily and a slamdunk to grow surprise me sometimes and iust die. Then the things I think can never work...somehow miraculously make it. More survivors in my life for role models...

I have heard of using birdcages as cat protection for plants (and cats that will eat any plant). Never thought of crowding a small plant table with so many plants that cats can't get access.

I am having so little luck with my indoor plants, just not much sun. I have an airplane plant which is doing good, LOL. I recently bought an aloe, which will be put outside for the summer. My tomatoes, sweet peppers, and brussels sprouts are so leggy, I have a lamp on them, even though they are in the window, during waking hours.

The weights and jars arrived. The jars were bound together with bubble wrap, in a box by themselves, and the dumbells were free to roll. All was well. The UPS man had a good laugh at my concern. I have my first batch of sprouts started with this setup.

Daddy bluebird was busy all day.cardinal and mamma bluebird in a late afternoon bath time.

Wish I had been able to catch the the wrens in the new gourd bed below. Eating theirselves silly. It was a wild bird extravaganza begunby a robin who almost splashed all the water out of the birdbath.

My 1st close-up pics of wild turkeys.

The red-winged blackbirds have returned to the Adirondacks.

Not a bad view until the crocuses bloom!

*green moss*

teka-I haven't seen a wild turkey since I was a kid. Nice.

Twohobbies - my orchid stay outside year round. When they start blooming I bring them inside where I can enjoy the flowers. I've never had much success with growing orchids inside.

Happy Spring ladies- things are greening up in my part of the world, and planning to put in some pansies this weekend. Got a few perennials the week before last but hold them in their pots for now and putting them out during the day to get acclimated. We had a blast of snow while I was away on a road trip down south to the Sliver City/Gila area and still have the risk of frost a bit longer.

There were some lovely wildflowers during a hike I did to the cliff dwellings in the Gila National Monument. Not sure what they are but here they are.