First vegetable harvest of 2012

Along with the Swiss Chard, these onions survived the winter also.  I'm not really sure why we planted them since neither of us eat onions.  I am starting to cook with them, though.  We'll see how these taste.

Dug up onions

Collin supervising

Garden flowers

Since we had a mild winter, our flowers are blooming already.  They are all beautiful.

Last year's begonias survived the winter.

Tropicana rose bush has gone wild.

African daisy

My favorite of the roses... peach of course.

Love this picture!

Tropicana rose

Don't know what this is, but it's growing in the front flowerbed

If you know what this is, please comment and let us know.

Miniature coral rose in the front yard

Planting bell pepper plant

Randy spends a lot of time in the garden.  I don't realize how much work goes into it normally.  Today I helped Randy plant a 2 foot tall green bell pepper plant.

Yes, Randy wears one shoe to dig in the ground.  :)

Once the plant was in the ground, Randy filled in the hole with top soil.

Filling in the hole 

The finished plant already has peppers growing on it.

Garden Update

The garden is starting to take off and looking pretty good.  We already have beautiful roses and flowers.  Soon we will have green peppers and tomatoes.  The morning glories are growing fast also.  This is my favorite time of the year in the garden.  Everything is green and full of life.  It's rejuvenating.

green peppers

peach rose

Tropicana rose bush

Tropicana rose

Swiss Chard

Lots of blooms on Maggie

blackberry bush

potatoes

Bluebonnets

After our dinner date, Randy and I took Collin to a field of bluebonnets near the house.  He sure is getting a lot of gray.... Collin, that is.

Date Night

My sweet husband took me out to dinner tonight.  We went to Cheddar's for some yummy vegetables and CHOCOLATE mini cake for dessert.

More Garden

I go to work each day not knowing what new things will be in the garden when I return home.  Sometimes it's plants that have grown and sometimes it's new additions to the garden.  This time I came home to evidence of Randy having made a trip to the nursery for more plants.  Not only that, the garden has now expanded outside the backyard.

Randy dug 3 holes and planted two red tip photinia and one pink crepe myrtle in the area to the right of the driveway.  The kids across the alley watched and one of them commented to Randy, "If you plant those bushes we can't play there."  Remember, this is our yard.  Randy respectfully, answered them, "I'm sorry about that, but this isn't a playground."  So proud of him.

My research says both trees are fast-growing.  The photinia can grow 3-4 feet in one season.  Both are beautiful plants.