I just got in from watering my plants. The sun is beaming down now. It hasn’t rained as the forecast predicted. I guess Mother Nature had other plans. We know she has an intelligence that the human weather forecasters simply do not possess and can’t always predict. The View To The Alley Fence: The sedum…
May is here and the plants are growing so fast and getting quite lush. It’s my favorite time of year when seeds are pushing through the soil and plants are growing by inches per day. It’s overcast right now, so rain may be in the forecast. Which, of course, my patio garden will surely love….
There’s something almost sacred about working in your garden. Whether your garden space is big or small, none of that matters. It’s working with your hands and tending what you grow. Zinnias: Yesterday I gently pulled little zinnia seedlings from the soil to thin them out and planted them elsewhere. I also planted a bluish/purple…
Today is bright and sunny outside. It’s been raining a lot. So I’m hoping the sun will perk the plants on the patio back up. Fast Spreading Sedum: See that sedum in the top galvanized container below? I went around the patio where this sedum was just growing freely on the patches of dirt along…
Yesterday I thought it would be a simple task to hook up the blue fountain, hide the cord in the rubber seal Kendra put up last year, and get it going. Not so easy. I put water in it and plugged it in, but it didn’t work. So I tinkered and tinkered with it and…
(This post was updated on July 6, 2023) In my second home in Tulsa, a patio apartment, I started gardening on the patio. And I kept at it for 8 years. My ankle was still in the steel boot at times, but then I had a second surgery shortly after I moved here and the…