I've been following the blog "You Grow Girl" for quite some time now, but today's post was especially inspiring. The 25-minute video about living from the land in the city embedded in this particular blog entry is worth watching. Funny how a movie from 1984 is still 100% relevant today. If anything, I imagine Polly, the lady in the movie, would feel less as an outsider and curiosity today when backyard gardening has become more mainstream. Even the First Lady has a vegetable patch.
http://www.yougrowgirl.com/2011/02/28/my-urban-garden/
Showing posts with label Inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inspiration. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Chincoteague Island
Our family is on vacation on Chincoteague Island, VA. Yesterday I rode a bike around with sole purpose to check out front gardens. It was a very enjoyable ride. I did not stop much to take pictures--I felt I would be intruding somehow. Or I'd need to stop every half-block.
The small spaces charmed me the most.
Colorful storefront on Main Street.
Colorful storefront on Main Street.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Sam's Farm
With nothing planned for this afternoon, I decided to go visit Sam's Farm nursery on Route 7 near Falls Church. For one reason or another I had not been there yet this year.
They have wide variety of plants, shrubs and garden decorations.
I feel like a kid in a candy store every time I go there. I want this and this, and this... Meadow rue is so beautiful. Just a picture this time will have to suffice.
Love this green horse. Everything seems to be growing so well at Sam's Farm.
This dude looks just like my dad :)
Elephant. Or is it a mammoth?
Mammoth detail...
My purchase: black salvia, perennial verbena, toad lily and one more flower I do not know the name of. Did I keep the tag??? And exactly where I should plant them?
I really did not need any more plants, but cannot help but get something when I'm in nurseries. I guess some people have the same feeling in shoe or department stores. Then in comparison my obsession is not as costly. This black salvia was the most expensive purchase and only $10.
At first I did not have a clear idea where everything would go. After some plant musical chairs in my front yard, everything is in ground and well watered. Grow well now!
They have wide variety of plants, shrubs and garden decorations.
I feel like a kid in a candy store every time I go there. I want this and this, and this... Meadow rue is so beautiful. Just a picture this time will have to suffice.
Love this green horse. Everything seems to be growing so well at Sam's Farm.
This dude looks just like my dad :)
Elephant. Or is it a mammoth?
Mammoth detail...
My purchase: black salvia, perennial verbena, toad lily and one more flower I do not know the name of. Did I keep the tag??? And exactly where I should plant them?
I really did not need any more plants, but cannot help but get something when I'm in nurseries. I guess some people have the same feeling in shoe or department stores. Then in comparison my obsession is not as costly. This black salvia was the most expensive purchase and only $10.
At first I did not have a clear idea where everything would go. After some plant musical chairs in my front yard, everything is in ground and well watered. Grow well now!
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Little Things
Last night I read the following in the most recent "Better Homes and Gardens" issue:
"Allow time each day to simply enjoy your garden. Don't dwell on the negatives--the weeds, the unfinished tasks, the plants nibbled by rabbits. Instead, focus your eyes on the beauty of details--a newly opened flower, dewdrops gleaming in the sun, a butterfly winging from bloom to bloom."
So true--when I make my daily rounds around my garden I do make what seems a never-ending mental list of tasks. I also keep whining about doings of rabbits and deer. Recently deer had eaten soon-to-be-open double daylily blooms in the side yard.
It's hard not to take this personally. Why my daylilies and never ever anything from the neighbor's garden? I was pouting about a row of missing flowers. Then I read the paragraph in the magazine, and it reminded me to enjoy the one bloom that deer did not eat. It is pictured below on the left.
The same day in another side of the garden I noticed a pink daylily--one I've not seen before. This is my third summer with this garden, and deer had always eaten daylily buds before they had opened in this spot. This summer they had their daylily fill in another place. Now I can enjoy this specimen. Is not it beautiful?
Veggie garden also is doing great. All the seeding and transplanting is done and the plants keep growing. I have pulled a few weeds here and there, but mostly big-leafed plants keep it in check themselves. I was planning to pull out broccoli plants since they'll no longer produce, but then decided to keep them where they are. After all, I do not have anything at the moment to put in their place. They have started blooming and that attracts some pollinators. Zucchinis have started blooming and garlic is wilting--soon it will be time to harvest both.
As about little things and details, there's never lack of those, just have to look closer. I just love this delicate dill bloom...
and this green fly on a sunflower...
and a goldfinch snacking on some seed pods (look in the center of the picture)...
as well as this bee in a hibiscus bloom.
There's always something to do and always something beautiful to see in a garden.
It's hard not to take this personally. Why my daylilies and never ever anything from the neighbor's garden? I was pouting about a row of missing flowers. Then I read the paragraph in the magazine, and it reminded me to enjoy the one bloom that deer did not eat. It is pictured below on the left.
The same day in another side of the garden I noticed a pink daylily--one I've not seen before. This is my third summer with this garden, and deer had always eaten daylily buds before they had opened in this spot. This summer they had their daylily fill in another place. Now I can enjoy this specimen. Is not it beautiful?
Veggie garden also is doing great. All the seeding and transplanting is done and the plants keep growing. I have pulled a few weeds here and there, but mostly big-leafed plants keep it in check themselves. I was planning to pull out broccoli plants since they'll no longer produce, but then decided to keep them where they are. After all, I do not have anything at the moment to put in their place. They have started blooming and that attracts some pollinators. Zucchinis have started blooming and garlic is wilting--soon it will be time to harvest both.
As about little things and details, there's never lack of those, just have to look closer. I just love this delicate dill bloom...
and this green fly on a sunflower...
and a goldfinch snacking on some seed pods (look in the center of the picture)...
as well as this bee in a hibiscus bloom.
There's always something to do and always something beautiful to see in a garden.
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