Here are some plants Queen grew from seed, and are left after planting 100 tomato plants today. She will give surplus plants away at food runs. We have Mr. Stripey, Cherokee Purple (my two favorites) Yellow Dolly, Roma, and two new varieties we've never grown before, Kentucky Orange beefsteak, and Pineapple Organic; that last kind sounds hippy to me; will report on it's characteristics later in season.I've always loved that Thoreau felt priviledged to witness nature up close.
Today, I saw another butterfly dance, yellow and black swallowtails, in aerial display.
Lilies are beautiful, but Jesus could have mentioned butterflies as well, for surely Solomon was not adorned more splendidly.
Climbing, circling, then gliding over the green grass.
Alliums in the back yard, blue bottlerockets, shot from a bulb.
Happy Friday!
love love the butterflies!
your garden and Queen's plants look great!
we had snow a few days ago.... so not much planting going on around here yet!
PepinMy guess? You will LOVE that Cherokee Purple. They are delicious!
How beautiful! The butterflies and the flowers! Spring has sprung at your house for sure!
Thanks Bala; my eyesight is not great, yet when flying flowers are around, it's fun to be watching regardless.
I have to say how I have watched your photography become fantastic!!
Thanks for sharing and making me wish I was there!!
I hear you Pepin, Love Cherokee Purple, and geez, Better Boy is fantastic, we have about eight of those planted; probably my third favorite.I'm glad birds eat more bugs than butterflies, seems a shame to snatch a flying flower from the sky.
Curious,I'm putting out a Cherokee Purple this season,along with Better Boy,which I know works well here.I did not know until I Googled it,that many birds are economical and given a choice,will expend less energy to take ground bugs than go after butterflies.
Delilah: I would be honored to hear the dratted poem.
Ooooohhh....I LOVE the smell of rain on dry ground. Now you've got me tring to remember that dratted poem about it!
Smiling, waving to krysta, alicat, and cait~.Mercury: That's the way I see Allium, and after the blooms are spent, the stalk/head looks great in bouquets.
Hey Starr! Dang right, Cherokee Purple; I ate a German Lady once; she'd moved here after the war.
Delilah: Memory is sooo strongly linked to smell; I'm glad the very spot where the small tomatoes are attached to the vine brings back Grandad's greenhouse and tea with Nana.
It's raining as I type this, LOVE the SMELL of it.
Spring has very definitely sprung, hasn't it! I love tomatoes, but I buy quite a small one 'on the vine', cos they taste so much better than the big ones, even though I'm buying them from the store. Take them off the vine and smell where they were attatched, and I'm instantly transported back to my Grandad's greenhouse, and Sunday teas at Nana's.
Pan, our Tractor Supply has some German Lady tomato plants. They are pretty tasty tomatoes. But Cherokee Purple is my favorite!Your place is looking very good!
Beautiful! Alliums, like fireworks stopped mid-blast…
Thank you for sharing.
Happy Friday!
beautiful!
Spring has sprung!