Choice Morsels

Christmas Rosemary! Just bought this cute little Rosemary last weekend. I plan on putting a bow on it and setting on the kitchen counter for Christmas cheer! Eventually, it will replace my sick and dying Rosemary in the back garden. I thought, being larger, it would have a better start then the tiny size normally available in herb sections.  This topiary is about 10 inches tall. Uniquely, Rosemary can be trained into a topiary or even a bonsai, I think.  When we bought the Rosemary, we also bought these Pinks: These are sitting where they'll be planted near the front door, though they aren't planted yet. They don't mind Florida winter and will offer a bright spot of color for Christmas.   A bi-annual, they'll last a couple years. Finally, a pretty shot of our Cat, Sunni: My computer is right by this window and she enjoys sunning herself here on her cat-pad, just behind me. She generally enjoys being where we are. If we watch TV, she likes t...

Greetings! Another fine spring day! Rain has finally let up and it got nice and cool for working outside! I had a dream last night that I was inside a yellow house looking out at the back yard that was a standing pool of water that seemed to be looming close to the foundation and I was worried about being found. In reality, my house is tan; not yellow and the only place water stands is in the various rain gardens I've built (where water was standing anyway) and even then, it's gone within a few hours. Today's Garden Pics are of the old bat house I remodeled into a bird house and a nice photo of my Pinks! First, the house.   It looks tres`chic now, but as a bat house it was hanging on a pine tree, so weathered it was split from roof to base with an inch wide chunk of wood gone and the slat-panels for bats on the inside were falling out. Never once had any bat taken up residence! So, we took it down and I began the process of gluing and nailing it back togethe...