The Summer Garden

With all the rain and the warm temperatures our garden is going crazy! Time got away from us this year so we did not plant a vegetable garden, but our flowers and other plants are thriving!

Remember Quinn's sunflower project? This is her first sunflower!

This is just to give you an idea of how tall the plants are. The one on the right has not bloomed yet but should any day now. The one of the left is the one in the previous photo with the flower. The flower has since wilted due to all the rain we got last week.

Bouganvilla and Mandeville

Our hydrangea. The bloom was much larger before Quinn tried to pick it.

A relatively newcomer to our garden - we finally found a spot which will allow a fern to thrive!

Our ivy is out of control!

Quinn's Sunflower Project

I decided that it would be a fun project for Quinn to grow some sunflowers as her portion of our garden this year. I started by getting a book called "The Sunflower House" from the library on our last trip. After I read it to her I asked if she would like to grow some sunflowers. We got the seeds and then it snowed... not a good day for planting. Quinn asked every day if we could plant the seeds. I promised her as soon as the snow was gone and it was warmer we would plant them. Today was the day! Let's watch the flowers grow over the next few months!

Quinn and her seed packet

Preparing the soil

Dropping the seeds in the soil

Removing a remnant of last year's bean vines from the lattice

Tiny toes. She kept having to remove her "flip flops" to get dirt out of her shoes.

Seeds in hand

Examining a seed

Daddy accidentally sprays her with the hose as they are preparing to

water the newly planted seeds.

Getting over her recent dousing

Watering the seeds.