What a beautiful day!

First, I would like to give a tribute to my Mom’s spring flowers.

So today, I planted the following in my parent’s garden:

1. Jalapeño (2 plants)
2. Mucho Nacho Hybrid and Gourmet Pepper (4 total plants)
3. Celebrity Hybrid Tomato (3 plants)
4. Mariana Tomato (2 plants)
5. Bumble Bee Purple Tomato (1 plant)
6. Brussels Sprouts (4 plants)
7. Broccoli (4 plants)
8. Peas (seeds)
9. Cumin(seeds) – I haven’t any success growing these at my house so I’m not keeping my hopes up.
10. Christmas Basil (seeds)

Garlic had been planted last fall and so some of that has sprouted.

Here are pictures:

Now for some pictures of plants in my own yard.

Spring is here

Friday, April 11, 2014 I took this pictures of crocuses in our backyard that I planted fall 2012.  Unfortunately, the heavy rains of that weekend kind of beat them down and so I didn’t get to seem them in full bloom.

That same day, I took the following picture in the front yard.  This was all that had started poking through in the front yard:

Now today, after returning from a relaxing weekend in Madison, this is what I found in the front yard:

This evening we set up all the rain barrels so we are ready for the next rain.  I also got my next shipment from Jung:  tomato and pepper plants.  Now, I need to find time to plant some at my dad’s house and put the others in bigger pots until it is safe to plant them at my house in the topsy turvies.

As to my begonias (some will go in hanging baskets, some in pots, others in the window box), they are making progress. 

Here is a picture taken April 11, 2014 of the first ones I planted:

Here they are today (I have moved them to a sunnier location as they really are reaching towards the light – soon the sunroom should stay warm enough for them to go there):

Here are the ones I planted several weeks after the ones above:

Saturday, April 12, 2014 we had an unlikely visitor to our yard that I thought I would share here.

Terrariums

I attended a seminar at the Chicago Flower and Garden Show on Terrariums and then another one at Stein’s this morning, so today I made terrariums.  All of the glass containers are from Goodwill.
Here is my best one which now sits on our dining room table:

Here is one for the bathroom which is made out of an old coffee pot (I took off the handle and lid):

These two I may bring to work (at least one of them):

Here are my new two air plants (for the bedroom):

Last, but not least, here is a is a small planter I planted for the buffet: