When my views outside the front and back doors today (and for the last three months) look like this...
and this - one can only "think spring" inside.
I've been thinking spring in the warmth of my home for the last couple of weeks by looking online for seeds & plants and working on a few garden projects in the basement. In my visits to other gardens and blogs, I keep an annual "wish list" of plants I want to add to my own gardens. Below is Lamb's Tail Joey, a plant I saw several times last summer at Munsinger gardens and fell in love with.
In the same garden, I spotted these Amaranthus Red Towers and loved the electic look as well as I knew they would be bird magnets as the amaranthus love lies bleeding is.
In
this post by my blogging friend, Bonnie, at Flower Bed, I loved these mumsy marigolds. She told me she got them through Park Seeds so last week I went online and ordered them in yellow, gold and orange. While browsing their site, I found they had the lamb's tail joey and the amaranthus towers and many other flowers I fell in love with so before I knew it my order reached 24 packs of seeds! They arrived this week and I was very surprised to learn in reading the origin of the seeds only 2 of the 24 came from the USA. The seeds of
Lamb's Tail Joey, a plant native to Australia came from Germany, the seeds of the
Amaranthus Towers came from Holland and the
Mumsy Marigolds are a product of France.
The tally of the 24 was 2 from Germany, 1 from Japan, 11 from Holland, 4 from France, 4 from England and the 2 from the USA, cleome sparkler bush and Van Gogh sunflowers. By the way, do they really think pasting a sticker saying "packed for 2010" on top of the printed "packed for 2009" will make me believe them?
Did you notice the table the seeds were sitting on? Another friend, Debbie from Mountain Breaths, goes to the annual MacKenzie-Childs barn sale and shows us many of the beautiful pieces she as seen there as well as purchased in this
POST. Looking at the MacKenzie-Childs website I spied this
cute little table for $3,200.00. It must be popular as it is currently on backorder - here is my almost free little version from an old piano bench and two cans of paint (though I just noticed it looks like I forgot the polka dot corners). It will find a home in the garden next summer.
I have had these 2 little chairs that some garden angels are having a conversation on for many years but decided they needed some freshening up as well...
another little M-C makeover as long as I had the black and white paint out.
The drop cloth is out so I have plans for some birdhouses, feeders and a few new additions and makeovers to Pixie Hollow. By the time I get done with everything...spring should finally be here!
Have a wonderful Outdoor Wednesday and head on over to
Susan, A Southern Daydreamer to see all the other's participating.
As most women know - the way your hair looks can put you in a bad mood (as in a bad hair day) or it can lift your spirits and define you as elegant, no-fuss or playful. The bluejays above and below are modeling the "classic" crest - the everyday look we associate with bluejays which can also be quite elegant looking.
For a more "serious" look this one models a slicked back style...
and this one is modeling the "I just wanna have fun" spiked look.
The attention seeker usually chooses a look you can't miss like this wild mohawk...
or if you are a little mischievous or overly dramatic...
the "Bart Simpson" look might be the one to make your day.
Which look are you going with today?
