Choice Morsels

  My Mama Kat topic is, "Something that surprised me." And that happy surprise was finding this baby tomato plant, pictured below, growing in this bit of dirt outside my front door a couple weeks ago. How it came to be there I don't know. The other part of the surprise is I have no idea what sort of tomato it is. Cherry? Roma? Regular? Red? Yellow? Heirloom? So I moved it to my r aised bed: And here it is, but the surprise won't be finished until I see the fruit.

 I was disappointed today because the Lawn/Landscape company I'd made an appointment with for this morning a week ago and he randomly didn't show up. I was quite disgruntled. I had to get up an hour earlier then usual to be ready for a no show. Not even a call. So, I called a different Lawn/Landscape company I'd gotten reply from on Nextdoor and he sounded more professional.  What I want is to lessen the work-load on myself by having a professionals hedge 3 front shrubs, do a general weed eating along driveway, walkway & various edged beds and, most importantly, remove the 2 large Pampas Grass in front yard.   I'd like to plant Plumbagos in their stead, which is a blue flowering shrub common here, which is also easy to maintain. Today's Garden Pic is a nice shot of one of my Cheers Daffodils. These are the most faithful Daffodils, showing up every year more numerous then the year before. They're clusters of small double white Daffodils on each stem that smel

Garden Pics today: A Profusion of Bachelor Buttons!  Sometimes they are called Cornflowers. I've never had such a thick and prosperous bunch! These I planted last fall from a random leftover box of Wild Flower type seeds and successfully protected them from the December deep freeze. I favor the blue, but they also come in shades of pink and white. My newest Garden addition: This green ceramic frog now sits amongst the Golden Creeping Jenny! I found him at the Dollar Tree.  

Nature moves seeds around. Some, like burrs, stick to things and get moved around. Others can fly, like milkweed seeds that float on a wisp of fluff in the wind. Still others are moved around by squirrels or birds. Some simply move themselves by mysterious means. So todays Garden Pic highlight a few of such random finds: Baby Tomato growing in this small space just outside my front door.  Just found it this week. Surprise! I moved it to my raised garden today. I don't even know what sort of tomato it is----regular? cherry? red? yellow? I found this lone Calibrachoa (Million Bells) last year in the bed along the house where I have container blueberries and daylilies. Back then, it was just a single baby stem about 3 inches tall topped with one purple flower.  This photo is how it looks now. Thriving. I happen to love Million Bells and was delighted to find it, free. A good many years ago I found this Common Ajuga (Bugleweed) growing in a drainage ditch around the corner from me and

Today, my Portuguese Squill is in season! The heads make the most interesting photo specimens as they first begin to bloom, the blossoms gradually unfurling a few at a time until it's one full, flat head of bluish-purple flowers! Easy to grow. It's a bulb you plant in the fall. Of the 5 original bulbs I planted 3 years ago, 4 survived and have doubled.