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My daughter graciously sent me a point’n’shoot camera, so that is what I did and here are 57 photos to prove it! I need to find the time and patience to read the online manual for it so I can adjust the color and quality better – is NOT straight forward like my old one. Trouble is the old one is dying – have to shoot 8 pics of same thing to maybe get one that comes out right. So, here we have it for today, May 14, 2011 (please excuse the mis-ordering of these – I put them ON right but they will not PUBLISH in that order – I GIVE UP trying to muscle the blog into behaving!):
Peppers, new rose, sunflower will be a GIANT, and an apricot tree in a pot I need to plant south of my fenceline once I get through that back fence! (There’s more dirt back there, too – I am nearly OUT OF MUD!)
Working away on the east side by bench
Last two days worked on new bed on the right – posts and wire, planted Sweetpeas and Passion Flower – both climbers – Shamrock, Japanese Toad Lily bulbs, moved the shade loving native-plant Rocky Mt. Columbine over here – this area has fantastic morning-only sunlight
Looking south – east side mess! I call this my staging area – I have no garage or shed, so how to make all this NEAT?
Adobe bench in the making beside new rose
Last section of the entire yard to be worked, the east side (this is looking north toward parking spot) – new roses planted yesterday at base of trellis – claimed in catalog they grow 12 feet in first year! Will see….
Now on drip, should do better, Rosemary and an elderly culinary sage
By back door, new rose and garlic
Peppers, no idea why some died (empty cans!)
Peas
Onion bed
‘Nearly Wild Rose’, garlic and nasturtiums
One of the native plants
Native plant from Santa Fe nursery – will form a carpet – dainty Dream of Beauty Aster
Little cactus, was supposed to be an inside variety, was outside all winter and in spite of subzero temps then is thriving now
Larkspur, from seeds given by a friend – planted last fall
The headless horseman’s horse?
Zukes, I plan to eat one tomorrow at least – ready or not! Full of blossoms, can’t wait!
Newest rose bush doing well
Front – north fence
Front veggie beds, pompas on left (froze during below zero last winter, cut back, doing fine)
Front – flax and 1st geranium bloom with snaps
Corn
Mesquite tree on south fence with Goldilocks (This was where I wanted the garden gnomes!)
South fence line with posts – plan to put a gate in there – next to new cuke bed
The rug
Whoo Who loves her chicky girls – so upset I wouldn’t let her in. I don’t trust her with them!
The pen stick roost!
Last fall I planted poppies all over, this is the only plant that came up – inside the coop! They do not move well so surrounded it with wire on inside
Globe mallow by pen
There’s the morning coffee chair – remember that old shed that was here! I used ever scrap of wood and wire it had to offer once I tore it down! Very grateful
Adobe coop and pen – finished – front door is a bi-fold – benches around coop, my morning coffee chair on right there
Scared little girls. The other three scampered off and hid!
Chicks with their box moved out to the coop today
Coop’s inner door, entryway closes off so I can bring the garden cart inside and not let chicks out
2 thoughts on “+ADOBE MOMMA NEWS: PLANTED MY 1ST SWEETPEAS EVER (PLUS)”
Oh, Linda! Your yard looks absolutely amazing. All of your gardening projects are doing really well. I love the chicken coop! I mean, it is truly beautiful.
Love,
Sharon
Excited about you both seeing it! I’ll have the debris cleared from the pathways by then!! Can’t wait for the sweet-peas! Can’t believe I’ve never seen them before, guess they are perennials that climb 10 feet!! And the Passion Flower, it looks downright ALIEN (pictures, haven’t actually seen one) – A little rain and these plants will truly then take on their life – can’t wait! xoxox
Stop the Storm 
Oh, Linda! Your yard looks absolutely amazing. All of your gardening projects are doing really well. I love the chicken coop! I mean, it is truly beautiful.
Love,
Sharon
Excited about you both seeing it! I’ll have the debris cleared from the pathways by then!! Can’t wait for the sweet-peas! Can’t believe I’ve never seen them before, guess they are perennials that climb 10 feet!! And the Passion Flower, it looks downright ALIEN (pictures, haven’t actually seen one) – A little rain and these plants will truly then take on their life – can’t wait! xoxox