Sara's gardens!

Here are more pictures of Sara's gardens!









Sara has recently brought seeds to us from this Jacob's Ladder



These are pictures Sara has sent me of her beautiful gardens! I am looking forward to visiting them soon. They look wonderful!! Please send me pictures of your gardens and I will post them, too.


These are her shade gardens





This is a beautiful Iris. (I got my early training on this plant, cutting off the dead blooms
at age 5. So that makes my gardening experience at 55 years, OH MY!)

This is a magnificent Delphinium, which my grandmother raised, was renowned for, and distributed seeds from all over the country. Don't get me started on Delphiniums!!

Sara has brought over seeds from this wonderful purple Nora Barlow Columbine - come and get 'em!
The oft misidentified Cornflower - I was calling it Mountain Bluet, (which could be another common name, I just couldn't find it anywhere to date.)

Seeds are up!!

Babs, an experienced gardener, spent almost three hours with me today, working in the gardens. We started on a needed path in the Crabapple garden, and one blocked by Peegee Hydrangea. She went home with many mature plants that needed to be removed to make space for the ones trying to find a place to grow.

Just to give you an idea of what she got for her garden, this is some of what she got that we thinned out: about 6 large rooted stems of the Hydrangea, 2 very large Black Eyed Susans, 2 very large Liatris, several Daylilies, thyme, Columbine, Pulmonaria, 2 large Rose Campion, Foxglove, Sundrops, to name a bunch.

I am detailing these plants to let you know that you can totally benefit from helping out. After 5 years of just minimal care the gardens need so much thinning. There will be so many plants needing new homes. Looking forward to sharing them with you. There will be opportunities for helping in the garden throughout the whole season. Right now being experienced is important because of the work I am doing. There will be plenty of opportunities for you newer gardeners. Watch for those postings.

We worked on the Pulmunaria bed also, weeding and pulling overgrowth to make room for the seedlings from this spring's seeds that are already 2-3 inches tall!! I never noticed the seedlings before as they grow under the mature plants. Found a bunch of runaways that I moved out of the way of trampling feet going to the sandbox!!!

Babs has gotten seeds from the gardens recently and she sent me these photos today to show me how they are progressing.

from Babs' email:
Baby Lupines, Bleeding hearts, I am so excited!! New from your garden seeds!!



You, too can grow perennials from seed - And it's free!! And so much rewarding fun!! Have a great night!!

Babs' comment on our gardening today:

I so enjoyed our wonderful time together in the garden this morning, just in time before it got too hot! I say to all if you want to spend some time with one of Heaven's Angels here on Earth come by and lend a hand. You won't be disappointed. This will prove to be one of the most joyous days that you will spend during this very short season. Your senses will be on overload as you view the magnifi-"Sense" of color, variety as well as, all of what nature has to offer. Marna, as always, a true kindred spirit, xo Babs

July 12, 2008 2:13 PM

Krissy's pictures

Garden photos from Krissy


This is the front garden. This is a Harvest Moon Coneflower, Echinacea

Does anyone know what these are?




This is the far garden.



This is the shade garden.




This is the side garden.


(From Krissy's email)
That fire pit was built by my brother all by himself with extra bricks my dad got when he worked at a stone yard.


Oh Kristina - It is so beautiful - that patio looks like a great place to hang out - Did you folks put all the rocks around?

Yea it is nice, we had a whole bunch of rocks when my dad re-did the backyard and he pushed them over and put it all together. The rocks in the gardens were left when they built the house and we built gardens around them because some were way to big to move!!!

What a beautiful piece of workmanship in the fire pit. What creativeness in the gardens! - Such artistic abilities in the M. Family! Mike and Miranda - I'm sure you are very proud of what your children have helped to create. You have your own little slice of heaven!