New in the Garden this Year

gorgeous pot with angel wing begonias

banana tree is getting huge

all the rain we gotten makes such

a huge difference

cast iron pots in the magnolia tree

with mini/small hostas

mini cast iron pot with cherish hosta

glass bowl with sand for the butterflies

metal train in the new hosta garden

and close to Bella's play area

ming treasure hosta blooms

ming treasure hosta in another 

gorgeous blue pot

new concrete pot for a new

hosta garden I'm putting in 

the back yard

new metal pot for the new hosta garden also

owls

cast iron owl

pink swirl hibiscus

iron planter I lined with rocks for planting

mini evergreen tree in top basket &

mini birdbath and fairy in bottom basket

Spring is Starting to Bud

The magnolias are starting to bud and bloom, hopefully we will be able to enjoy them without a killing frost.

star magnolia

tulip magnolia

pink tree peony

white peony tree

hostas on my bedroom floor

along with 2 pink lemonade blueberry bushes

our rock pile is getting bigger

getting ready for the new pots

and hosta garden

new flower basket from the 

Nashville Lawn & Garden Show

It is so nice to have longer daylight hours again especially with so much that needs to be done in the garden.  Now if only the weather would cooperate and it would get warm enough to enjoy working outside.  Hopefully the rain will hold off until Saturday night so we can move the rest of the rocks to our rock pile.  We plan on using them for edging in the flower garden.

Nashville Antique & Garden Show Plus More

The Nashville Antique & Garden Show was this past weekend so I took off work Friday and Mom and I went to enjoy.  It was a fabulous show!  It is a shame I didn't win the lottery before going!

Pink Frost Helleborus Mom bought

5 peonies we bought

Henry Bocktose, President Roosevelt,

Black Mulberry, Mr. Ed &

Prince of Darkness

from Peony's Envy Flower Farm

2 iron baskets

these will go on the phone poles

we planted last summer

Siberian Iris kita-no-seiza

I found at Walmart

my bargain for the needle palm was so good

I went back and got 2 more

our old fashion buttercups are blooming

Snow, Snow & More Snow

Snow, Snow Go Away

Come Again Another Year????

Father Winter decided to pay Northern Middle Tennessee another visit yesterday afternoon. I left work at 1:20 because Jennifer called and said our road was covered and slushy already. It was still raining at work.

The roads were fine until I reached the red light in Greenbrier and then the winter storm appeared. It was amazing that the road before the light was fine and after the light was not. Thank goodness we only live about 5 miles or so from the light and no one seemed to mind poking along at 20 miles an hour.

This is our road in front of the driveway leaving for work this morning. Nice and frozen. I walked out before leaving to see if the black part was really the road and it was - with a nice coating of ice of course.

another 3 inches to clean off the trucks

sticking to the trees again

so neat to watch

shade garden close to the house

wrought iron collects snow very well

good thing no birds in this house

accumulating on more trees

drifts really well with the wind we had

It would be so nice if Father Winter would pack up his bags and leave town. Unfortunately he is scheduled for another visit tomorrow afternoon. Mother Nature needs to kick him out of town since he apparently has no plans to leave on his own. Spring can't get here fast enough.

New Play Toy

One of our newest play toys is now up and running. We were at Lowe's a few weeks ago and seen this composter and fell in love so we got 2. Not even a week later they ran an ad and they were $10 cheaper than we paid for ours so Mom went back to Lowe's with our receipt to get a $20 refund. The clerk didn't think he could do that so Mom suggested he call his manager, otherwise she was bringing them both back. The manager came and said no problem, no need to bring them back and gave her our refund. Yippee. Since Alan couldn't play outside Saturday with his toys during the storms he put together 1 of our composters.

full and working it's magic

little pond I cleaned out last Sunday

storms Saturday filled it 1/2 full

my reading corner nice and clean

weeding was so much easier from

all the storms and rain on Saturday

clematis blooming better than ever

in the reading corner

White Wednesday

We Got Snow

only 1/2" but that is enough for us

baby magnolia

angel girl by the porch

large pot in the middle of the flower garden

benches covered

newest no water fountain in the garden

doves watching over the garden

birth baths we forgot to take down full

little pond covered up

It started snowing around 8 am Thursday morning and snowed all day. We finally had about 1/2" by the end of the day with snow flurries all day Friday and Saturday. We might have ended up with maybe 1" by Sunday morning. Everything looked so beautifully pristine white. After an extremely cold past 10 days we are starting to warm up again and the snow will disappear hopefully until next year.

Check out Kathleen at Faded Charm for more great White Wednesday posts.