Snow...seriously?

On May 30, it snowed....the temp outside was 38 degrees when I woke up at eight this morning.  The rain in Utah has been a bit frustrating.  I have been afraid of the seeds rotting from all of the water in the ground, not to mention the creek by my house which is way to high for comfort.  This week temperatures will be in the 70s which is good and bad.  The snow up in the mountains will now melt quickly causing more water to come down into the valley.

My peppers seem okay but time will tell.  I'm sure the cold temperature stunted them a bit but hopefully with the warm weather coming the will recover soon.

My okra was having issues too but is still standing strong.

 

My lettuce on the other hand was like, "no problem!"  of course when the warm weather comes they might have issues ha ha!

To end this short but sweet post is a picture of my favorite tree in my back yard.  This is know as a Golden Chain and it is poisonous.  Eating pods from this tree after it has blossomed could give you an upset stomach, eat enough and you may take the very long nap...and never wake up.  Beautiful yet deadly my favorite combination.

05/16/2011

Tulips are in full bloom, I'm sad they only last during the spring!  Today I bought some perennials to fill in the front yard garden, dug up the rest of the grass in the southern side yard with the hubby, and planted corn.

This is another angle of my front yard garden.  I have bee balm, which I absolutely love but it does tend to take over, a couple of tulips, and the honeysuckle my sister Laura bought me last year.

My lilac is growing slowly but he smells divine, I wish it would bloom all summer.

 Here is the work in progress.  The plan is to put a fire pit in and fill the rest with rock.  On the right I am planting some butterfly bushes and on the left my grapes are starting to bud.  In my herb garden this year I have mint, oregano, rosemary, thyme, and chives.

Grape!

 

Sugar Snap peas

Here is a picture of my North garden, I have planted soy beans and marigolds so far.

This is a climbing hydrangea, I have two, and I'm pretty excited about them.  I hope they flower this year!

05/05/2011

 

Sorry it has been so long since my last post.  Since my last post all of my tulips have blossomed my favorite one being the one I put at the top of this entry.  This tulip in no way resembles your classic tulip and it's colors are absolutely beautiful.  I will be planting more of these this fall because I want my whole yard to fill up with them!  Here are some of my other tulips:

I love this color of orange.

Last year the only tulips I planted were the dark purple but this year I branched out a bit and I'm glad I did.  I'm enjoying the early spring color that I didn't have last year.

 

 I have three bushes of bleeding hearts by my front door and hopefully this year they will get the chance to grow.  Last year heavy winds blew them apart.  I'm just glad they came back this year after the hard times they had last year.

This is a picture of my back porch.  The two bushes are lilacs that I planted last year.  I also planted trumpet vines last year but they don't have any green on them.  I hope they made it through the winter, if not I will have to replace them.

The honeysuckle I put in last year is doing really well.  Last year it filled in the fence with a span of about three feet.  Hopefully this year it will be even better.  I can't wait until the whole fence is covered in honey suckle.'

Some of my Hostas have not come up yet, but this one is doing really well.  I hope the others have not died on me.

This week I finally bought more bird seed.  The birds were very happy with this, there feeder has been empty for about two weeks, when I filled it yesterday it was like the feeder was never empty.  

This week I also planted squash, and beans, and some marigolds were my tomatoes will be.  I have also been hardening off my seedlings but I have not planted any of them in the garden yet.  I hope they survive!