My Yard Art

   Finally after waiting on my husband to cut me a pole the correct size I gave up and attached it differently than I planned .So I ended up with lots more green color in it than it was to begin with and that was so I could make it a tighter fit .I used 3 candy dishes ,a small goblet ,a small candle holder and a flower vase, then attached the wooden ball I got from the dollar store for the top, under  the up-side down vase is a olive jar, also upside down with the green half marbles in between to keep it a tight fit. I used hot melt glue for that part and the clear silicone for the glass on top,
 The blue globe is like my mothers, hers was red with grout, I decided to leave mine plain, I did not care for the grout look.
The table is a plastic tray with sea shells and filler with a glass top and more sea shells all around the edge . I have all these just out side my front door.

Night Blooming Cereus

We have a good friend in the neighbor hood who is owner of a flower garden that sells to local Florist, he came over to tell us about this beautiful night blooming catsus flower on his huge oak tree.
So my husband and I went over there ,of course I forgot my camera so we came back to get it and these are just a few we took , Jim's son and my husband got onto the back of the pick up to get close enough to get this close up of the first 2 pictures .
The flower only blooms at night , there are no thorns and is also called Queen Of The Night -Dutchman's Pipe .

Some Of Mom's Spring Flowers

Lovely Pink Roses 

Very thorny white roses 

Lilly's

Petunia's and Clolus

Same white rose  ...bush is huge

                                              White Hydranga bush

                                                New Mums

          Mom brought several new Mums to fill in this flower bed

                                                
                                                   New Impatinets





    

Orange Lily

Lilies growing and blooming in my Crepe Myrtle Tree

The Tree has 5 trunks and is growing in a circle , I had these lilies in a pot for several years it finally bloomed for the first time last year and again a week ago.The Pot is sitting in the middle of the tree.Just last summer we had the Crepe Myrtle trimmed back and hope it will bloom a lot better this year.They usually bloom in June & July

New Flowers For Spring

16 new flowers

79 cents each

                                                                         At Lowes

Christmas Catus

These are my christmas catus plants from last year , I was totaly surprised the other day when I saw all the blooms on them ,ususally they die on me or don't bloom until late, but these somehow survived the terrible heat from the summer .

I can't wait for the white ones to open too.

Flowers

I have been working in the yard the last few days and just this morning I noticed how full the begonia plant was (top photo) the flowers are really blooming  this year , I decided to go ahead and cut some to root , these begonias always come back out so good .I wanted to root some for the pastors wife and daughter,so I have extras for them and also enough for 2 hanging pots for my garden area as well .

Working in the yard sure does take time and is starting to look good out there ,I notice too that some of my Hibiscus are  coming back and the one shown was another favorite .

My vegetable garden is doing really good too, I cannot belive all the blooms on the squash plants ,so far I have picked about 8 and there are 2 plants with at least 6 squash on them , Tomatoes are doing good as well as the banana peppers , onions  seem to be really slow .I have enough squash  to cook for supper tonight  , love them smother fried with onions !

Tiered Pots

My sister Tina started this last summer ,I think she saw this somewhere else and decided to make one  . Mom and I loved it so much we both made one for ourselves ,except we did not use the bricks around the bottom ,Mom's is on her patio ,mine is in front between the evergreen trees .Tina's plants are beautiful , Mom and I bought a few and then used  what we could find at home  , I took a picture of mine but forgot to load it to the blog .Most of the plants are still here ,not sure about Mom's & Tina's .I love the way Tina's hang over the side.

Mom's Trumpit Vine

Orange Trumpit Vine

 This vine was growing up and around Mom's umbrella Pole where she hung pots of pretty flowers , the trumpit vine pretty much took over and it was looking like a tree so I took a picture of it and a close up of the flowers .This was last year , hope it has come back ,Mom has alot of the orange vines ,I have one here but it never blooms like hers !

Spring Flowers New & Old

I was trying to up-load these to Facebook to show a friend ,but had problems ,I wanted to talk about some of my favorite flowers . The peach Rose bush is new ,it is called Diamond Jubilee , the purple new wave petunia's came up on the their own in the ground   , purple lantana with petunia's and a special hibiscus that I lost when it got cold , they are not showing any signs of coming back.
The orange Trumpit vine and yellow Pansy is at Mom's, 2 of many different flowers she has  ,the snap dragon's came from my husband who got them from a friend that grows them.I had many different colors and styles of hibiscus , so far only a couple are coming back. The yellow orange one in the above pic. the flower alone was about 6 to 7" round .
I was finally able to post some of these on facebook ,but not all of them.

Planting Time - Spring Is Here!

 

The first flower to Bloom this year !Black Eyed Susan !