Gardening is one of my very favorite hobbies. I love the flowers, watching the birds, lizards, bees, dragonflies, etc. I actually got a Hummingbird to pose this year. (After chasing him around for all day and some the day before, he finally just said, get it over with.)
He said take the picture already!
The little hummers just love the bottle brush trees. I’ve had so much fun gardening over the years and every single year is a new adventure. Something matures from years past, or something new does well. I’ll share some pics with you for this year. I posted on my gardening really early in the season. Here is that post:
http://niecey456.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/oh-the-joy-of-gardening/
That was in March. Just look how far it’s come now:
Clematis
As you saw 2 pics up from this one this little Japanese Maple has grown a lot since budding.
Everchanging
Still Changing
Love My Flowers!
Still Growing.
I'm so Blessed!
The Veggie Garden (early on)
The picture of the veggie garden was a while back. We are harvesting now. The corn is being harvested. We will be able to harvest tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash for a while to come, but the beans and peas and corn are about done. Can you believe it’s almost the end of June 09???
I made this a page so that I could add to it over time. I wanted to share my gardens with you, as it’s one of my favorite passions. My gardens are grown organically, and it’s really easy to do. I feel sooo Blessed when I work in my gardens, and even more Blessed when I can just look at them. I see God’s handi-work in every detail. I’m never closer to God than when I’m in my gardens. Please feel free to leave a comment and tell me about your gardens, and in time I will share more on this page.
This is a story I posted about my little dog Tigger in the veggie garden. It’s funny. Some of you have read it, some have not. Enjoy:
Niecey…What a beautiful garden you have…I can see all the work you have put into it…I remember when you started planting in the spring…how nice to be able to see how it has turned out.
I don’t have a garden…I haven’t even gotten to have the landscape people get here yet…but maybe when it’s finished I can send you a picture of what was done…not the same thing I know but that’s okay.
I can’t believe you have veggies already!!! Our harvest is more mid July and forward…I love home grown veggies…I grew up on them and miss them so…but my son planted a garden this year so I will have some!!!
Anyway your garden is a reflection of you…
a beautiful person and a beautiful garden.
Looking forward to watching it grow and change.
Thank you Mand! Please do send me a some pics when it’s done. I love gardening and landscaping. Yes, blanching veggies tonight. Mom gave us a foodsaver, and I love it. I love fresh veggies too. I know you are looking forward to those veggies. If we lived closer I would surely share.
Thank You My Dear Friend! You are one of the best friends I’ve ever had. I don’t know what I’d do without you and Mystery. You 2 are the best!!!
Niecey…I have been thinking about getting a food saver…there are so many brands I just put it off.
Yes if we lived closer I would be a pest for the veggies!!!!
You are so sweet Niecey..I am fortunate to have found you…you and Mystery are such beautiful caring gals…I could not ask for better friends.
We feel that way about you girlfriend.
Thank you!
Oh my. Now why didn’t I bookmark your site sooner?! I never paid attention to your site beyond the Caylee Anthony case. I’ve got some catching up to do! Bee-u-tiful pics! I love hummers and am blessed to see them every year at my nasturtiums and Four-O-Clocks. It makes my day when they hover near me (until the cat scares them off!).
Hey Sherry! We have so much in common it seems. I’m glad you found me. Thank you. I’m due to take some more pics, the garden always changes. I love the little hummers. Even the bees and I get along. And of course the dragon flies. I can see God’s handy work in all of nature, even the things I’m not crazy about. I enjoy the gardens, God’s gardens.
I do also post on other cases as well as political issues. I also post on Faith. Thank you for reading. I hope to converse with you some more.
Wow Niecey, you have spent many hours, and it is beautiful! One day I will have a garden, ok a garden that grows! I wait for more pictures!
Hey Humble! Thanks! I love my gardens. I will have some fall pics coming soon. The Cassia Tree is about to bloom like crazy. It’s beautiful when it does. This is one of my favorite hobbies.
It gives me peace of mind.
Wow, you’re good!!! I really try but I guess I am young (36) and still have some time to master this. My mom always says I’m turning into a grandma early with all of the baking and gardening I like/try to do. Trust me I have a ways to go, just in the past year I’ve learned how to not kill most of my plants. I try so hard and plant so many things and sometimes it feels no matter what I do they don’t “take” or they do and then die. Hmph! I just planted lettuce for the fall and it IS starting to do really good and then my little girl said lettuce is yucky and boring. So then I planted carrots and she started to get teary-eyed because her bunny Foo-Foo died and she doesn’t have a bunny to give carrots to. I can’t win.
Hey WB! Thank you. You have plenty of time. I really got my gardening start in my 30’s, and am now in my 40’s. I learned one very important thing…………….As far as flowers, shrubs and trees, don’t buy just what you see in a book or on a tv show and expect it to work. Many times it may not grow in your environment, and that’s why it fails. Find out what grows best where you live, find a local garden show in the Spring, like through your local college, (many areas do that) and go and ask a lot of questions. As far as veggies, some like extra nitrogen, some don’t, like watermelons thrive on wood ash. Read books designed for your area. I live in the South, so my fav is the Southern Living Gardening Book, and it absolutely will tell you what will grow in your area, no lies, as they are not selling plants. I learned to quite trying to grow things that cannot take the climate where I live, and the veggies, well, you learn each one what it likes and the predators of it. I garden naturally and it yields much success.
I’m sorry about the bunny. If you have any questions that I can help you with it, pop in any time, and I’ll find the answer if I don’t know it. I’m always looking up the answers, as I don’t know it all.
I like to bake too. I think those are great hobbies, and not too grandma like. For baking might I recommend It’s A Mystery To Me’s : Through The Garden Gate. She has wonderful recipes step by step always. The link is in my sidebar under blogroll.
I enjoy these things, nothing wrong with that.
Thank you!
I am trying to learn from my mom, but she is still learning new things too. She has a natural knack and I don’t seem to. I have a big backyard, but not in terms of gardening space, it’s full of pool, hot tub, decking, play structure. I try to grow two things at a time in my little garden aside from the two rosebushes that are in it, so I grew a pumpkin patch and sunflower garden all summer and my mom suggested the lettuce and carrots as something that would do good in our fall climate for where we live.
Thank you for the tips and the suggestion for the other person’s recpies. I will check it out!
Little Bunny Foo-Foo died I think by a neighborhood cat. She got loose in the backyard and we couldn’t find her (she was a mini-lop), then one day I saw a bunny fur pattie in the back corner of the yard and I knew it was her. Riley knows she’s in bunny heaven but I didn’t give her the gorry details of how she got there. She’ll get a new bunny for Easter. Gives her something to look forward to.
That’s so wonderful that you and your mom do that together. My mom and I share gardening as well. The natural knack comes, you’ll get it. Gardening is like an art form, and it’s all trial and error. Sounds like you had success this year.
Poor Bunny Foo-Foo. I used to raise rabbits. She is in bunny Heaven and that’s good that your daughter will get a new bunny. They do have a personality. I love animals. We have turkeys, and guineas now. Of course with the 2 dogs and 2 cats, too, and the fish pond. LOL! I always have a menagerie.
Happy Gardening to you. I usually go through a burn out in winter, and get fired back up in late January into February. Then Spring can’t come fast enough.
Sorry, I forgot to check back here!
I hope I DO get my mom’s knack for gardening. I’m getting better as time goes by. I’m at the stage where I don’t kill all my houseplants anymore and now feel encouraged to do more stuff.
Do you have any citrus trees? Any tips about those, in terms of anything else besides just watering them? Last spring I bought a lemoon, lime and tangerine trees. They haven’t really sprouted much yet.
What kind of bunnies did you raise? I have had all sorts growing up. I got mini-lop for my daughter because it seemed the perfect size, and lops are cuter!
Do you eat your Turkeys? Bleh! Do they act funny when you bring a turkey home to eat on Thanksgiving? Haha!
I was a bit slow checking back myself. No worries. You will pick up her knack, I’m sure. It all starts with the houseplants.
No, don’t have any citrus. I live in Florida, but we freeze in my part, so citrus has to be grown in pots. My mom grows lemons. Now I have just been made aware that I can grow Satsumas, so I will probably try that this year. Seems they are related to the orange, but can take the freeze. We can also grow comquats, may try that too.
Most citrus can’t take freeze. Most fruit trees like a lot of water, and fertile soil. Add lots of compost. Don’t let them stand in water, but don’t let them get too dry.
I had the European bunnies. I did raise a few lops. They are cute, but I had the big lops. I had one little male European Jack Rabbit. He was always small, but very opinionated. His name was Thumper.
No we don’t eat our turkeys. LOL! Anytime we raise animals that people normally eat, we don’t eat them, I have this thing, they are my friends, they become family members. No they don’t act funny, cause they know they are safe. They just act spoiled.