GTS 6-22-08

Green Thumb Sunday
Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday; visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

One of my Clematis has bloomed, so now they are no longer 'left' and 'right'. The other one was doing very well, considering that I accidentally pulled it up last year. It had sent up two main vines, and about the middle of last week I noticed that one was all wilted. The vine does not seem to have any breaks in it, and the wilting goes all the way to the ground.

Clematis 'Blue Angel'. Personally I think the flowers are more lavender than blue, but that's probably a matter of opinion.

Happy GTS~
Sarah

GTS 6-15-08

Green Thumb Sunday

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday; visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

The first two pictures are courtesy of my Mom. The blue flower is a mystery - I haven't had a chance to go outside and look at it. The pink flowers are Rose Campion.














An update on the 'Annual Plant Invasion.' It has gone from the picture on the left with a 30x30 table, to a tv tray and the window ledge. For some reason the plants in the mini greenhouse aren't growing very well or fast. When I tried taking the cover off they all started to keel over, so I put it back on.
Happy GTS, and Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful Dad's out there!
~Sarah

Gardening News

*On a whim I decided to see if I had any drafts for this blog and found this one. I probably never posted it because I didn't have any pictures to put in it. Still no pictures, but I figure better late than never, right?*

I've been pretty busy, as I'm sure most garden bloggers are. I got my veggie garden planted, and everything seems to be growing well. I did lose one Mrs. Benson tomato, but had an extra one to replace it with. I also wound up with 5 extra zucchini plants, as the garden center was sold out of single zucchini plants. The peas are falling over due to a nasty windstorm (thanks Scott Hetsko) they are also at the top of their poles. My parents bought some taller ones that I will install as soon as the wind stops.

My flower garden on the other hand, is not doing so well. I planted the Four o' Clocks and Flashback Calendula, and they all promptly keeled over and have not revived. Out of 9+ Four o' Clocks, only 2 appear to have survived. I planted some seeds in the garden, so maybe those will come up. The rest of the flowers I started keeled over and died before I even got them outside. I am planning to scatter seeds in my garden bed this week, so hopefully I will have some flowers by the end of the summer.

Remember the grapevine I pulled off the trees a few months ago? Well, I made some of it into a really cool trellis...as long as you don't try to stand it upright. It's rather lopsided. I tried to fix it, but due to the windstorm (thanks again, Scottie!) it looks worse than ever.

The good news is, I now have my own camera. My parents were contemplating helping me buy one, but then on one of the blogs my Mom frequents, the blogger got a new camera. Mom knew she wanted that one and offered me the 'old' camera. (It's not old in years,but in technology.) I decided that if she was going to buy a new one anyway, I might as well take it until I can save up enough money to buy one of my own. Oh, the point of that paragraph was that I can post more pictures since I don't have to share the camera with Mom anymore. Thanks Mom.

~Sarah

GTS 6-8-08

Green Thumb Sunday
Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday; visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

I've been pretty busy lately, but I hope to get caught up with my blogging this week.












My Mom's Iris have bloomed. (Left) The snap peas are flowering, (right), as are the Chives (below).

Happy GTS!
Sarah