Happy Mother's Day

Today is a day we all get to think of our Mom's and reflect on being a Mom.

My Mom has always stood by me right or wrong she never leaves my side.

She is strong, she is funny and she is always, always their for me.

Love you Mom to the moon and back.

 

As for being a Mom it is the best job in the whole world. I knew when I was young I wanted a large family and I was blessed in finding a man who also wanted a large family. We have the most wonderful six children. They can keep us on our toes, they can make us laugh, we are very close and very loud.

 

May your day be filled with love, hugs and kisses Happy Mother's day

Time to do a little soul searching...
From our winter we lost many plants and yes it has happened before but this time is it harder so much time, patience, love, hard, hard work and money goes into the gardens. I know am second guessing myself do I continue with my goal or step back and relax. Since 2010 it has been full steam ahead of work hard work for me and it  has been rewarding but when one takes this step with the gardens and it really is only me my kids do help but the bulk lands on me should I continue do I want to continue with such loss.
Financially maybe not worth it
Work volume maybe not worth it
The peace of looking at the gardens worth it
I love to see the new growth worth it
so I need to sit back and rethink my plans
Maybe
I need to cut back on my goal of 1200 - 1500 plants
Maybe I need to concentrate on a few less gardens...
I will let you know in the mean time you will find me in the gardens

Wonderful way to celebrate Earth Day

I transplanted many sunflower seedlings with the great hope they will grow big and strong. I mixed up a variety of seeds and sprinkled them around plus some wonderful wild flower seeds. My husband brought home an Apple tree so after supper it went into the new Orchard so far our count is six Plum trees, one cherry, one peach and one apple.
I have lost a lot of lavender this winter so I have a few new plants on order I will wait until the second week of May to see how the plants are doing before I do anything too drastic.
As for planting any of the urns and flower pot that will have to wait still way too cold. We have some very sweet pansies and violas planted among some lovely moss.

Wishing you a warm day

 

The first full day of Spring and .... it ...is ... snowing.

 It snowed all day yesterday so lets hope some sunshine finds us.

 The gardens are coming along nicely. I need a few prayers on some of the plants they are sure not looking too good right now.

I have built some lovely walk ways this Spring always room for improvement though. In regards to my oldest daughters wedding with have removed a whole section of lilac trees, Fruit tree, shrubs and roses. We have also moved fences over six feet to accommodate chairs. The great thing about this is we can offer our gardens for rent for future small weddings if we choose to. And, if we don't offer our gardens it still is a beautiful place to call home.

 

Her I am moving more rock.

 Yesterday I bought two truck loads of great green rock to enclose an outside bath tub. It looks so great it is right near the barn yard in a little closed off area near the ducks ~ practical~ probably not.

March
 Spring is on the way and this makes me extremely happy
While I have been in the gardens I have noticed little bits of green it always amazes me how nature just keeps moving on ahead no complaint just slowly does it's thing and before we know it ~ there are buds on the trees, sprigs of green here and there.
It is so refreshing when I get the pine needles cleaned I really notice it when I walk over to the lavender garden.

When the gardens are done and clean I actually feel my heart get excited it is a huge under taking and sometimes a bit scary but slowly I get it done. I am trying to hold myself off with bringing out the garden décor until I am done Pine needles.
Enjoy

New limes on the tree

Doing some serious work in the gardens cutting down tree limbs we still could not reach all we wanted to get.

It makes such a mess but it is good to get them down.

 Climbing trees

 

I managed to get some great work done in the main garden. It really is insane how there is always so much mess even though we cleaned really good in the fall and a few times in the mid winter. How does it happen?

99.9999999% of my work is pine needles

Waiting for Spring

 

Stuffed bunnies with a nice soft middle and lavender.

 Every hug will relax you with a wonderful scent.

 

 

A box full of bunnies.

 We will have a lot of new products in the lavender house this summer