This Week in my Garden

Good day, my friends.

♥

This little garden of mine brings me more joy than I can tell you. When life seems ridiculous, all I have to do is grab my camera and go outside for a while. In the heat, but that's ok. This week in my garden I'm actually skipping the random philosophical rhetoric and talking about what is actually growing in our dirt. :o)

I don't photograph our front yard space that often, but when I came home last night and noticed all the blooms on our Mexican bird of paradise, it had to be done. This one had been limping along until Doug fixed the water source to it and BAM! She's taken off.

Also out front is a white bougainvillea. These plants are plentiful in Arizona but you rarely see them done up in white. This one lives out front...and you can see our palm tree in the background.

Then in the backyard... THE SUNFLOWERS ARE COMING! THE SUNFLOWERS ARE COMING!!!

We have one dwarf sunflower open {photo below}, eight that are ready to burst, and another dozen-or-so that are still growing in height and leaves. Love, love, LOVE me some sunflowers. ♥

If you are thinking about getting into the gardening gig, plant sunflowers! They are super easy to grow, and they grow really fast which is great if you're in to the whole instant-gratification-thing. Sunflowers, and zinnias too...

The zinnia in the photo above stands almost two feet tall, and the seed packet said this is a good variety for cutting. Yes, I grew her from a seed with the intent to cut the bloom for a bouquet, but I might not have the heart to chop her down in the end. It might help if I stopped referring to her as a her...

 

And the basil that I probably shouldn't have planted in the middle of my flowers, and that I thought wasn't going to make it...well...it's taken off and there is pesto in our future. I have no qualms about taking cuts off this bad boy! 

 

And that's it ~ this week in my garden.

What's in the dirt on your piece of the planet this week?

♥