Welcome

Welcome to my garden.  I live in SE Idaho on a small city lot but my little gardens bring me both peace and a little piece of heaven.  Coming in a close second to my children and family my gardens are my favorite thing to talk about.  I love working in, admiring, and sharing my garden.  I hope this blog will detail my successes and I'm sure a few failures as well as provide ideas and inspiration for fellow gardeners. 

This winter I read a little about Fairy Gardens and decided to add one for my 3 year old daughter to my front woodland garden.  Leah loves Tinkerbell and all things fairy.  We had a lot of fun picking out and painting our fairy house together.

  

 Our fairy house has a new home at the base of our wishing well fountain.  I am looking forward to filling it in with a path, bluebells, violas and more.

Spring teased us with unseasonably warm weather last week.  The sunshine coaxed my daffodils into bloom.  This was the first and I had to snap a photo.  Following are a few other shots of my beloved plants springing to life around my yard.

These little purple aster came with the house, but were in the side yard in a little patch where we park our bicycles.  I have been transplanting them over the years to the front.   They are one of the first flowers to bloom in my yard and always give me hope that spring and warm weather are truly on their way.

Tulips rising above snow on the mountain.

When I planted this Carmine Jewel Cherry Bush 4 years ago it was barely a twig.  This is the first year it has had blossoms and I am really hoping for a few cherries this year.

The warm weather is tempting my lilac into bloom early this year.  Last year I didn't even have blooms for Memorial Day to decorate loved ones graves with and this year I fear they will be all spent by then.  You can see the size difference in my lilac and cherry.  We are ruminating about how to improve this spot especially to help my dear husband out with the mowing.

Please ignore the disarray on my deck but I wanted to capture these side plants.  My currant bush, a division of one that used to grow at my Great Grandmother Rock's house passed down to me from my Aunt Patsi Hinckley is really growing this year.  My rhubarb exploded and it looks like I need to make some Rhubarb Crunch soon.  Even my little strawberry patch that wraps around the deck has an early start and is starting to put out blooms.  I hope that you wander back soon.