20 Dec 2011

My dear Lil' John, all 170lbs of him.....

 Gourds now have filled a 30' x 8' spot

 Elephant ears are not tall this year but too crowded and too dry

 Ghost peppers. They look just like habanaros.

 This year's experiment. Morning glory and cypress vines covering a dead branch along with other stuff

'Dead' petunias doing pretty darn good

Purple People Eaters

 Red Carribean peppers

"Dead" petunias

Antiques for sale.

 cradle is about 250 years old

 Don't really know what this chair was used for but it's not comfy. The rollers are made of wood.

 This old rocker is only about 100+ years old but it IS comfy. Just needs new padding.

Picture frame is very old too, made out of wood. Not sure about the picture but it's a little damaged after more than 60 years shuffled from storage to storage all over.

Nora's Lily

New flower for this year

Pot stacks with peppers, knockout rose and other stuff

Beans growing, will pick a mess today. That is not a tree growing out of the 2nd pot!

The stump now

The old oak tree is down at last. Beans and lilies are trying.

4/18/11, new cat perch, garden in progress as of today, old oak tree is DEAD, do NOT buy a greenhouse kit

Roses competing

cat perch. They jump on this and tell us they want in.

Stuff is growing like the dickens

Roses doing their thing along with scattered iris

More knockout roses with the pots full with small peppers you can't really see

Oops, the 'Old Oak Tree' died during the winter. The only green there is the vines and bushes. Gonna' cost us a bundle to take him down. Trunk is well over 3' in diameter....scary as all get out. Had we gotten the storm we were supposed to he'd have taken out a transformer and power lines for lots of the area.... gotta' fix and have calls in to several.

Iris seem to be blooming only a few at a time instead of all at once this year. Kind of nice, but doesn't make a great picture.

Note to self. Plant sun loving plants where they don't have to lean to get sun....

Part of the leaf pile where there are basketball gourds coming up. If they live it will be nice. If they don't the 8' x 30' area will be a boxed in area next year....

Never buy a greenhouse kit....the polycarbonate is fine; the framing has busted all over

Fillius Blue Pepper in new home

Elephant ears starting up again....sigh

Occasional iris and lilies coming on

Last fall's trimmed pecan and today's little plot growing like the dickens

Easter lilies will not be ready for Easter again this year.....

Last year's tipsy pots. Are ready to be filled now for this year.

 "Bird" has been my companion for 30+ years

And I'm supposed to crawl into this bed....

Katie, Bruno, and Felix in Germany