New Flower Slideshow

Random Pictures

Was outside taking pictures right before it started to storm. Snapped a few pictures. The other pictures are of the neighbors yard, its very overgrown and long. The house is condemned and nobody takes care of it, I hate it.

flower update

Ok, from top to bottom- both are my Sweet Peas, Gerbera Daisy hanging basket, Purple Salvia, Purple Salvia, Sunfire Coreopsis, Sunfire Coreopsis, White Coneflower, Black Eyed Susan, Dahlia, Shasta Daisies, and last 2 are my try at Sunflowers. The sunflowers and sweet peas were both inside starts. They were the only ones that made it. Hopefully will get some more Perennials soon and maybe some annuals to fill in.

Sad News

Looked out of my window this afternoon and noticed that the nest was gone. Went outside and it was on the ground, the lone egg broken. My guess is that something spooked the finch and it flew off, knocking the nest down, it wasn't a very sturdy ledge. Makes me sad though, was looking forward to seeing the babies emerge. :(

Finch nest

Last week I noticed some Finches building a nest. Now its complete and the momma finch is now staying in the nest. So my guess is that hopefully in a few weeks we will have some baby finches. I will continue to take pictures of this.

My perennials

Purple Salvia
Sunfire Coreopsis
White Coneflower
Black Eyed Susan






Shasta Daisy Dahlia




Well since my seed starts didn't make it I decided to buy some perennials. Have bought and planted a few, will take pictures of their progress as they grow and as I plant more.

new starter tray-peat pellets

Just planted these on Monday and my African Daisies and Bachelors Buttons are already coming up. This is so exciting to me, I can't wait to transplant them outside.

More sprouts

Sorry I have taken so long to post new pictures of my sprouts. The other day I found another starter tray at Lowes, this time it was the ones with the peat pellets. I thought I would give that a try. I planted numerous types of flowers will post pictures of that in a few days. But here are the latest pictures of my sprouts. Some of them you really have to look at closely because they are so small. But all of my plants are coming up!

Let the sprouting begin!!!!

I was so excited when I checked my seed tray. My Dahlias have started to sprout!!!! When I got home from work I checked again and they had sprouted even more. I even noticed that a few of my Shasta Daisies have sprouted. Will post those pictures tomorrow!

Planted some seeds

Well I decided to go ahead and plant some seeds. I found a seed starter tray at Wal Mart. It came with the bio-degradable things there you plant the seeds and a humidity lid. Bought the starter soil as well. Was pretty cheap really. Found some decent seeds there too. Im going to track the flowers with pictures and will post more as they start to sprout. I'm excited, I hope it works.
I also plan to plant some sunflower seeds after the danger of frost has passed.