Friday's Gardens

My niece, Linda, does a Friday's five each week of the significant things that happened in her household. I always enjoy reading them, and got the idea that I should take weekly pictures of my garden and post them! This Friday is cold and dismal, but nevertheless, I am going to get started on my garden picture project!

Ross got me this beautiful hanging baskent begonia for Mother's Day. Hanging baskets suffer her from excess wind, and only do marginally well, but we can't resist having at least one on our front porch! And, of course, the flag makes a lovely background for all porch pictures!

The pansies in the pot are the first thing I planted this spring, and they are blooming profusely now, and I added verbena (?) to the pot,too.

The porch boxes have not started to overflow yet, but they are growing, too.

About the only thing that shows up in the garden at this distance is last week's grass clippings. I put them between my tomato plants, which I planted five feet apart. Just you wait to see how these plants look in two months!

This is the way the garden looks from my kitchen window, although I took this outside. I really love being able to look out at my garden from the window over the sink.

I have planted several marigolds in the garden, more for color than anything else. Some folks say they help with bugs. Here is a marigold planted near some basil plants.

The bean plants are beginning to peak through. This is after about 10 days.
A tomato plant in the middle of grass clipping mulch. They have new, green life on them.

More bean plants coming through. It doesn't look like much yet, does it? But we gardeners enjoy those very first signs of life.

In the farthest row out of the garden I usually plant sunflowers. This year I planted some moonflowers in with my sunflower seed with the hope that the moonflowers can trail on the sunflowers. We shall see...the sunflower is only barely visible here.
We have lovely lavender irises that grow on the east side of the house. This one is bravely blooming in spite of the fact that I have not gotten this bed cleaned out yet! These are not quite as tall as most irises.