That just has to be the sweetest little planter! Makes me want to have a cup of tea next to it, very relaxing!

I did a bunch of worrying over my garden this morning. Fixing this, adjusting that. Put in my new copper plant markers, worried more why my lettuce hasn't come up yet! Hahahaha! Is it the same as "a watched pot never boils?" A watched garden never grows? :) Nah, I'm not a newbie or anything!;)

And the rest of the time I have enjoyed the cool temps in my studio working in clay! It has been just a wonderful weekend to be out of the a/c! Too bad its warming up again this coming week! Soon though, it will consistantly be gorgeous!

Get out and enjoy! I'm heading back out right now!

desertSol

I got up and put on my bathing suit, climbed up the hill to water my citrus trees. Got in the pool and played keep away with the Poodle. Showered and went to Duck and Decanter with a couple of friends and had Chardonnay and soft cheeses. Went to Fish Mkt to buy some Manhattan Clam chowder. 3 Dog Bakery to get cookies for the Poodle. HD to
relocate some succulents. ( TRYING to create a succulent garden at my entry with banana yucca and New Zealand Flax (which is giving me a big problem.) I have a sign out there that says "This is not Mr MacGregor's Garden. The bunnies are giving me fits) &^>#@*!(#*#@&*!
Delightful little garden, Barb!!

Dh and I spent all weekend at rock college learning faux rock techniques. We learned a lot, but man, did we miss out on a nice weekend. :-(

All of my petunias are wilting and dying as well. I've never had it happen before with petunias. They are in containers with new potting soil and I am watering them carefully. They are infested with whiteflies but so are many of my other flowers and the petunias are the only ones dying. We don't have a dog so that isn't our culprit. Not sure if it is the whiteflies or not.

I finally went and bought my 3lb bag of garlic today. Maybe tomorrow I will start pushing it into the soil? The mornings are cool enough to get it started.

Dug up more cats claw roots. >gritting teethEasy

I had a busy weekend. The weather was FABULOUS! It was cool and windy in Tucson yesterday and I spent all day outside (of course, now I'm sunburned).

built 3 new beds in the backyard w/berms for water harvesting & water retention. Put plants in 1 of the beds. The other 2 are going to be for wildflowers. Also spread out the decomposed granite that I've had since Feb and created pathways between the beds. It looks great!

Went to the DBG plant sale. Apparently I got enough new plants at our Plant Swap because I only bought one additonal one at the DBG sale. (Poliomintha "Lavender Spice") I did come away with two shopping bags full of books though.

Planted some of the plants I grew from seed (Cape Honeysuckle, Yellowbells, Caesalpinia gilliesii, Fluorescent Purple pepper...)

Hugged cats, dog and horses. Spouse too.

I fell through the ceiling in our garage. Felt pretty stupid. Went up looking for the cat carrier on Thurs. and as near as I can figure, I may have caught my scalp on an exposed roofing nail which caused me to flinch and take a step. You gotta watch that last step...it's a doozy. Spent the last 5 days recovering from a whip-lash concussion. No broken bones, but the short term memory is a little shaky. Feel MUCH better now, though the Dr. won't let me return to work until maybe after the 14th! Starting today I'm going to use the time to put in the winter lawn in front, trim the bushes, fix the sprinklers, and anything else I can think of to keep me from going nuts...I hate sitting arround and feeling useless. And it ticks me off to have to use up the PT for something stupid. Add ceiling repair to the honey-do list....

Jim- Ooooooh, very sorry to hear about your mishap. Sounds like it could have been alot worse on your noggin. Mend quickly and don't over do it in the yard.
Susie D

Me ooooohhh too and also sorry to hear you fell. I thought I was the only one who was grace-challenged...

Don't push yourself, you have lots of time to get things done, so savor the time and enjoy the lovely weather! Sit outside with your coffee and enjoy your yard.

Susie

We know a gal who lives off of the 303 & she fell thru the garage ceiling about 7 years ago. She is in a wheel chair for life.

You are very lucky. Be well & have fun on your time off.

T

I had a get together and we made our words in stone (impressed letters into a stone substance).

I also have 2 dogs that like to lay in my plants. The small one likes to lay in my asparagus fern and foxtail fern. The big dog will take a plant mike my tree mallow or red fountain grass and jump on it , untill he is in the middle of the soft cushion of the leaves.

Oh by the way, my house was selected to be on this march's valley of the sun garden group garden tour. Now I get to do all the little things I have been waiting for it to cool off for, such as painting the block fence, building another raised bed garden etc.

vicki

That's very cool GardenHits. You should be very proud. Any pics of your garden you'd like to share when ready, I love to see.

I love your planter too Barb! So carfree and colorful!
Lucky, you Jim...I also know of some even sadder endings to falls like yours. It is not time for you to Garden in the Sky yet!

I was in Prescott....loving the wind and a craft show and the little fun stores. Bought the most awesome winter hat.

No gardening for me. Off to Milwaukee this weekend!
Becky