Fertilizer Friday - TGIF

Are you glad it's Friday - I sure am. Hope you have had a good week. It's that time of week when we all get together over at Tootsie Time to join in the fun. Ya'll go check out who else has something blooming on Fertilizer Friday. Go here to check it out http://www.tootsietime.com/.



My sweet Little Buddy. It's too hot to stay out but maybe 10 minutes. This is an air conditioned baby here.

The Fourth of July is next week. The begonias look good next to the flag. This container is so full since the begonias are doing so well. These will bloom all the way into the fall.

Butter yellow zinnia. I like the softness of this color.

I love these zinnias. The plants are about 12-15" high. Plus they don't blow over in the winds.

These pink ones with a flower about 1-1 1/2" wide and these plants also are about 12-18" high.

I have a feeling these are the ones I received from Darla. When the plants are small they seem to have clusters of zinnias as shown here. And they are not the same flower but on the same bush. Go figure.

Cannas are displaying one flower at a time. I wish my red ones would bloom this year. They didn't last year.

Purple verbena.

Love these blue forget-me-knots. They keep giving once they started blooming.

Everything is behind on fertilizing. The gardens need weeding too. I will have to turn the sprinklers on them this evening. No rain up my way in at least a week. The plants are showing signs of conditions being too dry.

Hope you all have a great weekend.

Bloomin' Tuesday

Good Tuesday morning blogging buddies. We are gathering over at Jean's to join in the party. Ya'll head on over to http://msgreenthumbjean.blogspot.com/ to see who else has something blooming.

The okra hibuscus is still putting on a show here - but... as you'll see in the next couple of photos my gardens sustained some wind damage and the okra hibiscus was a victim.

Wind damage. Cosmos, Hibuscus, zinnias and forget-me-knots all received damage. I should have staked my plants and this wouldn't have happened. The dahlias were staked so they faired OK.

Blue forget-me-knots are still pretty.

Vincas are still pretty and growing like a weed.

Dianthus.

Love my begonias.

zinnias.

That's about it for today. I really need to cut things back and plant new babies in spots where the plants have been taken out and or bloomed out.

Not much else going on in my world. Still keeping an eye on the Gulf Oil Spill but that is another story.

Hope you all have a great day.

Bloomin' Tuesday

Good Tuesday morning blogging buddies. It's time to join Jean at http://msgreenthumbjean.blogspot.com/ to share our what's bloomin in our gardens. Ya'll go check it out and see who else is joining in the fun.

The following couple of photos were taken with a lot of humidity. We have been up in the 90% range of humidity. The camera fogged. It makes for interesting pics anyhow.

I have some blue forget-me-nots bloomin now. Thanks Darla.

Begonias my favorite easy plant.

Vincas another favorite. They put on a show all summer long and are not affected by the heat.

Verbena

Faithful zinnias.

A canna blooming. Yea!

These are some plants I purchased this past weekend at the once a year sale open to the public from Cottage Farms. I was a little disappointed that the plants weren't labeled very well and that there were not many in bloom to see the flower colors.

This one is a Butterfly Weed with blooms.

Jasmine.

Althea Rose of Sharon Hibuscus and Iris Cloud Ballet Iris (purple and white)

That's all I have to share today. Hope you all have a good day and don't get too hot in the gardens. Summer has arrived on the Gulf Coast with temps of 95 today with humidity of 75-80% which makes the temp feel more like 105 degrees.

Fertilizer Friday - TGIF

Good Morning blogging buddies. It's Friday and ya'll know what that means. It's time to get together over at Tootsie Time and check out everyone's blooms they are sharing today. Check out Tootsie here http://www.tootsietime.com/

I have a few things to share today. I have to share this cutie. Little Buddy.

I am so in love with this hydrangea. This flower has gone from a pale pink and just keeps putting on the prettiest shades of pink. I am eager to purchase more hydrangea's. They are such a hardy plant. This particular one is a young bush from last year.

I love the way the Johnsons Blue Geranium blends with the dusty miller. Oops I got my toes in this one.

Love zinnias. They show off all summer long.

I soon will have some Blue Forget Me Knots. Thanks Darla.

Yellow viola's are still doing very well.

Verbena.

Ooohh and I must have more dahlias next year. I am so loving these.

More white zinnias.

More zinnias. Darla I do not know which ones you sent as they all kinda mingled in the beds. They certainly keep color in the beds.

Can't believe I still have some snapdragons putting on a show.

I soon will have a yellow canna to open.

The okra hibuscus will soon have blooms. Thanks Darla.

Well that's about all I have to share today.

I am feeling better after a week of feeling not so good. I spent last Friday at the hospital again. That is 4 times this year. The gallbladder is full of stones and sludge. The only reason that it wasn't removed last Friday at the ER is that even though there were more stones than the last time it didn't warrant an emergency operation. I will be trying to get into a state clinic to see what they can do for me. Otherwise I wait till it is an emergency. I do not have any funds to do any different since I barely pay my bills. Ya'll don't feel sorry for me though. It'll all work itself out. I always have faith. The good Lord knows exactly what my needs are.

The oil spill is on our minds daily. Everytime we turn on the news it is the headlines. Hope I do not bore you to death with videos but here is one that I watched and cried about these poor animals that are so helpless to what man's greed for oil has caused these poor babies. It is pure and simple oil greed. There is nothing we can do but learn from this. And I hope that WE can find better and less harmful ways of generating energy. There is so much clean up to be done and this will go on for years to come just like the Valdez spill they are still feeling the effects of the oil spill.

http://www.wkrg.com/gulf_oil_spill/article/raw-video-oil-covered-birds/892921/Jun-03-2010_7-20-pm/

Hope you all have a great weekend and have some good weather. We will have a partly good weather weekend.

Fertilizer Friday

Good Friday Morning. Tootsie is celebrating Fertilizer Friday and I am joining the party. This is the day set aside to remind you to fertilize those babies for some awesome blooms. Ya'll go check out who else is joining the party.

I will be fertilizing today. I don't like to fertilize my plants when we are experiencing dry conditions. We have rain in the forecast for the next 5 days.

I needed to start with a flower and I didn't load things quite like I wanted. This azalea is not done yet.

Seedlings are doing very well. I water everything nearly everyday. Hollyhocks growing like crazy.

Okra Hibuscus is doing very well. Thanks Darla.

I wanted to share how the gardens are filling up now.

I have daffodils, cosmos, hollyhocks, red and yellow cannas, zinnias, milkweed, dahlias, sweet peas, phlox, peony and snapdragon in this bed so far. I will be adding just a couple of others to this bed.

Full view of the same garden.

This is a different garden (didn't load in the right order). Blue forget-me-nots - thanks Darla.

Shasta daisy's doing well.

The bigger picture here. Here I see forget-me-nots, lupines, okra hibuscus, hydrangea, dusty miller, yellow violas, breadseed poppies, blue geranium, iris and a couple more - can't remember them all.

Here there are begonias, dianthus, iris, red melon poppies, shasta daisy, and zinnias.

Trimmed the pansy's back a few days ago and now they are going to show out again. Loaded with buds.

Johnsons Blue Geranium is beginning to bloom. It is loaded with buds now. Blur...yuk

The daffodils are not thru blooming. The flowers that keep on giving.

That's it for the flowers.

I'm sure that most of you have heard the news of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This is setting up to be the worst disaster. This will have far reaching affects to the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida. Alabama is preparing but about all they are doing now is putting out booms to try to deter the oil. They have been using the word 'if' a lot but this is not an IF situation. This is a WHEN will the oil impact us by reaching our beaches. The magnitude of this disaster will effect not only the fishing, shrimping but the sport of fishing. Dauphin Island is the home to several tournaments. It will effect the tourism, all the way down to the little man trying to make a living. Devasting this will be. Alaska is still recovering from the Valdez spill. This is of great to everyone who lives here on the coast of Alabama and the other state that will be effected. Our government is dragging their feet just like they did during the Hurricane Katrina Disaster. BP should have realized the magnitude of the oil that continued to spew from the well right after the disaster instead of waiting 4 days for the spill to be measured at 1000 barrells and 4 days later determined to be 5000 barrells a day. They are talking that it could take 3 months to construct an underground something that will cap the oil that is presently leaking.

The eco system will be devasted. The animals could be covered in oil just like in the photos we saw back in the 80's when the Valdez spilled. The birds of all kinds, dolphins and other fish and the list can go on and on. I just hope that they will be able to think of something that will work before we are damaged for 20 or more years like Alaska.

Thats enough ranting for now. I'm sure there will be more news everyday for a while.

I hope you all get out and play in the dirt a little. Have a nice weekend.