Out in the Garden

Today is a perfect Saturday morning. Cool enough to enjoy and quiet enough to not go crazy. Have I ever mentioned that I have a man behind me that builds race cars? Saturday nights is a big race night here at a local race track. Most Saturdays you hear the sounds of these race engines rumbling to life.  To be loaded into trailers and taken away. But there is always tinkering to do and so on Saturdays my house will be vibrating with the sound of cars roaring to life. Or the sound of air tools or voices talking over the sound of the car engines. Today has been quiet. Well except for the oil well back there that is out of time and it backfires every 4th revolution.

My first sunflower of the year!!! I finally have sunflowers growing again. I walked out this morning and there it was and it made me so happy to see its bright yellow face.

Last weekend Ron and I went out to run errands. We needed to go to Office Depot but it wasn't open.
(We always leave the house at the crack of dawn.) But it happens to be next door to Home Depot.
We decided we would just go walk around and look at stuff. When we are together, in a garden shop, we are a bit crazy. In fact, we shouldn't do that very often because together we tell the other one how much they need such and such plant.

This is a Addenium Obeesum or a desert rose. Which we call the fat bottom girl. We are both crazy about them and they aren't for our zone. But for some weird reason this time of year Home Depot gets all of this weird stuff and when we walked up to the table with all of these we were gasping and we looked at every one. Here is the bottom part.

These make lovely Bonsai when that base gets big and gnarly. so that is why we like them. We have another one but it isn't blooming now but it looks very pretty and healthy.

They are so unique and we have names for our plants. I don't name my chickens but all of our trees have names. It was something I noticed as we were walking around talking about the different ones and how each one was doing through this heat.

I saw these and they are a kind of Echinacea. Since I love any kind of that family of flower I wanted this one.
Then we found this Mandevilla.

I have these wonderful arches that our son made for the wedding so I would love to this growing up one of the arches around my garden. I may wait to put it in the ground next spring after the frost has past and just try to keep it alive this winter.

I love how it looks to have flowers blooming and climbing the arches in the summer.

This is one of them I have around my garden. It has some morning glories climbing up it now. I have so many plans for next years garden. Having this tiny one does help me to dream. I dream in squares. If I can break things down in a square I can see it in my mind. I find that is how I do everything from hooking to housecleaning. I always start with a small square and I can get so much done. I have never figured out why my mind works like that.

Off to play some more in the garden before it gets too hot out there. I hope you have a very nice Saturday today.

~Kim~