Another foraged floral bouquet!

This one was made with the help of my niece. We decided the bouquet needed ten flowers (the greenery did not count towards this total) so she picked some dandelions and grape hyacinth from the yard. Then cut some coyote brush for the greenery and Japanese pieris for the remaining flowers. I think the flower clusters each counted as one, but we still went over our target of ten flowers. 

Seedlings

I’ve got some seedlings! The seed starting is going okay, tomatoes are growing and it might be a bit too cold in the basement for the peppers. I’m going to try to find my little heat mat this weekend and hope it helps the other seeds germinate because having only two pepper seedlings is sad. 

Speaking of seeds not germinating, my direct seeding outdoors has so far been a flop. The slugs could have gotten to them, but I think it’s probably just been a bit too cold. Maybe I’ll be surprised by some seedlings as it starts warming up. 

Another weekend task is to place the second raised bed. After a lot of digging, the first now sits in the slope. I think I’ll be postponing a soil purchase for these two beds and sow sunflowers directly in the ground inside one or possibly both beds. I should also look at my garden plan and figure out what other seeds need starting!

Cherry Blossoms

It’s Sakura season and instead of heading down to the riverfront to check out those trees, I drove east to see some other trees. This park had their flowering cherry trees lit up at night so we headed over just after sunset and snapped a few photos.

Rainbow Photo Walk

Over the weekend, I went on a little garden walk that turned into an impromptu rainbow photo walk. While walking, we looked for each color of the rainbow, starting with red. My niece was the photo director, pointing out what colorful thing I needed to photograph. She even took over the camera to take the "Green" photo. Here is the rainbow we found:

red. orange. yellow. green. blue. purple.

Yesterday was my birthday!

Yesterday was my birthday! I don’t have anything new to share so I’m sharing this birthday bear painting I made almost eight years ago! It’s pretty cute and now I’m thinking I should add a few more paintings to the series. Any suggestions?