Passions I can't deny
Posted in buying local, gardening, irises on Apr 22nd, 2010
I will be tagging all of my irises this year. In the past couple of years I’ve tried doing this with a variety of different tags and they all pop out of their location after the ground froze. Dave bought me some nice tags to use this year. The only problem was there were only [...]
Posted in Photography, gardening, irises on Apr 16th, 2010
Well, the iris beds are gearing up to bloom. Every day I see more of the buds popping out. Again, I am amazed at how fast everything is coming out and how my areas of irises are changing from green spikes to flowers. This area of the main iris bed was replanted two years ago [...]
Posted in Photography, gardening on Apr 15th, 2010
I continue to get excited about everything blooming here. I stopped by the cherry trees to see how they were doing.
I continued on to the blueberries. Looking good!
The lilac bush has bloomed the best since we’ve been here thanks to a little tlc from hubby.
Then the tulips out front have come alive.
Check out other garden [...]
Posted in Cooking, Photography, Ramblings, Recipes on Apr 7th, 2010
It’s finally spring here at Happy Acres. We ate our first bunch of asparagus. Yum! We harvested a little over 6 ounces so far, but every day I see more and more of the green goodies poking through the soil. There is nothing like fresh asparagus. And to think I used to not like this [...]
Posted in Photography, Ramblings, gardening on Mar 24th, 2010
Yesterday I took a stroll around Happy Acres to see what has changed since the rains came. I was hoping I’d see some asparagus peaking up through the soil. Last year this time, they showed themselves and we picked our first harvest on the 25th. But last year everything seemed to be early from dogwoods [...]
Posted in Photography, gardening on Mar 19th, 2010
Well, I missed posting green on St. Patty’s Day, but thought I’d share with you some of the green (and purple and yellow) I found today at Happy Acres.
I’ve never grown this allium before. One of my master gardener friend had the schubertii in her yard last year and I fell in love with it. [...]
Posted in Photography, gardening on Feb 21st, 2010
I decided yesterday, when the air temp had elevated to 56 degrees and the sun was shining, I’d grab my jacket and head on outside to see if I could find spring.
I am happy to report that I did find some signs of spring. I also found some work that was not taken care of [...]
