Fertilizer Friday/Flaunt your flowers April 21/11 – – – part 4

Hi fellow gardeners! Here is my little story this week about my gardening. I bought a Peony root in Wegmans and I planted it like in the picture below and I made a post on how I planted the root here: Steps in planting roots. My Daffodils are finally blooming this Monday and I am enjoying their beauties. 🙂 Will be blog hopping your blogs tomorrow as I am planning to visit my Father in law who is in the hospital. We are hoping to have the feeding tube installed into him because its the only thing he could be fed very well and survive. Hope you can include us in your prayers folks.

 And oh, these cute foliage of the Lupins were up this week too.

And I am excited to use this chives in my cooking. 🙂

Fertilizer Friday/Flaunt your flowers April 9/11 – – – part 3

Yesterday, I was able to spend my whole day de-weeding the garden in our front porch. The left side has the mulch fabric to stop the growth of weed under it and I spread wooden chips of mulch above the fabric. If I abandon it long time, some grass grow above the mulch and some grass also has sharp leaves that can still pass through the fabric. I am told that I should use newspaper first, I guess I should have done it because its just the same story that we need to de-weed the ground anyway. So much so, de-weeding is an exercise, especially for a pregnant like me and that I did it by hand picking the weed. I was able to spread the mulch fabric on the right side area and then I was able to put mulch. But not enough, need more bags of wood chips. I usually buy the supplies in the House True Value store.

This the right side slope in front of the porch. The plants growing in there were the tulips, daffodils, creeping phlox, lupins, lemon thyme and rosemary.

This is the left side slope of the porch. The plants growing in there were the tulips, daffodils, creeping thyme, creeping phlox, dianthus, snow white iberis, lupins, one strawberry and the trailing soapworth. Must put more mulch there. The location gets only partial sun and its in a side of hill so I get flower blooms late. I got some daffodil buds now.

This is a potted plant that I just bought at Wegmans last Wednesday. I just could not resist the beauty of its foliage and its was on sale from $9.99 to $1.99. Was able to grab it in a cheap price.

I took some pretty yellow daffodils while visiting my mother in law’s garden last Sunday.

And here are also some stunning Forget-me-nots in her garden.

Fertilizer Friday/Flaunt your flowers April 8/11 – – – part 2

I am beginning to plan and buy the materials for a mini green house. Just like this photo I got from my last year’s gardening, I bought a jiffy mini green house. It has those flat peat moss where you can just insert the seed and pour a little water and the peat moss slowly rise up and germinate the seeds. I also long to see my star gazer lilies again. But I guess they are summer blooming flowers. Anyhow, here’s a photo I got when I took a picture of it at the back of our house.

My Garden Herbs #1: Chives

We have a small patch of garden slope at the back of our kitchen. I decided to plant our herbs there so it will be easy to get them fresh to add a palatable cooking. This chive came from my Husband’s office friend who also have a garden in her house. She is so sweet to share her herb roots to us. Chives are perennial plants and they grow every year on the same spot. My brother in law shared to me that Chives are one of the symbols that Spring has sprung. When they bloom, Spring is here.