the other side of the garden

As a floral designer I work with sunflowers often. They are a nice enough flower, but I wouldn't say they were one of my favorites.

Now having said that, this sunflower is growing in our garden. Not the west side where the "Hope Garden" is located, but way over on the east side. What is special about this particular sunflower is we didn't plant it. A little sprout showed up in a pot a few months ago and because I didn't recognize it as a weed sprout, it didn't get pulled out. I'm going to take a guess that the seed was blown over from the bird feeder or a bird it self dropped it. Which every way it happened, we are now enjoying the flower...just thought I would share.

You noticed when I don't have something exciting to blog about, we go back to the garden...

Back to the Garden

With hopes of a bountiful crop, we have put in a garden. The tiny lettuce seeds have sprouted and almost look like lettuce...but not yet ready to be a salad.

There are little bitty squash, with the blossom just getting ready to open.

The tomato plants have small yellow blooms with a promise of bushels of red ripe tomatoes.

I'm trying to remember if I still have canning jars in the attic to process our harvest.

The melon seeds...watermelon and cantaloupe, at this point they look a like, are just now getting started.

We're not calling it a recession garden...

it's a "Hope Garden"