Now that my garden has been put to rest for the winter, I’ve been sorting through my images and cleaning up my files on my office P.C. hard drive. I can’t stress enough the importance of doing a back up of images every few months. I’m thankful I’ve not had experienced losing 1,000′s of images and documents due to a hard drive crash. I’m totally knocking on wood right now! Cleaning up and backing up the hard drive can be a fun ‘flip’ through memories. I just found this totally dreamy shot of P.Allen Smiths garden at sunset from a visit I have back in April.
Sunset at Moss Mountain Retreat in Little Rock at the P.Allen Smith Garden 2 Blog Event
Whens the last time you did a back up on your computer?!
Take a break from raking the leaves in your own backyard and adventure out into your community to see what seasonal activities are going on. On October 1st 2011 New Media @TheGardenChat shared the sights and sounds of a community growing together and celebrating the best of Autumn. During my visit to Philadelphia I had the honor of meeting some amazing people who are making a difference in their community where you wouldn’t normally find fresh organic veggies growing. It is great business’ like Subaru and Organic Gardening Magazine that support urban farms like the one located just five minutes from central city Philadelphia.
In the image collection below check out the food, crafts, and growing fun located at GreensGrow Farms in Philadelphia.
Subaru and Organic Gardening at Greensgrow Farms celebrate fresh, local food, crafts and farm fun!
#gardenchat a Grow* Share * Connect network mentioned on CRS Wire. MENTION
It was a year ago I shared my hand full of harvest from my veggie & bloom garden grown from seed here in Ohio garden zone 5. This years harvest is a huge heap of passion featured in the photo below.
Zinnias & Veggies All Grown From Seed
Growing from seed definitely is something I plan to incorporate into my lifestyle each spring no matter how busy I maybe. From the looks of what I left behind in the garden I will be pulling a harvest like the one in this photo for the next few weeks. The experience of growing my garden from seed truly makes me passionate about my harvest. What have you grown from seed this summer?
I first fell in love with the Bradford Pear tree when we lived inour first home located in Perrysburg, Ohio.The in town charm of Perryburg is something I discribe often as a ‘Norman Rockwell’ painting. You will find American Flags and flower baskets on almost every front porch in the old village part of town. The Bradford Pear is a delightful early spring bloomer that line many streets in the Midwest despite their repetition for splitting easy as they grow older.
When we moved to the country 8 years ago one of the first trees added to my landscape was this favorite of mine. Today this beautiful ornamental tree can be found throughout our landscaped area of our property. I’m hoping the woods surrounding this area will help protect this admired tree so they never hold to that repetition of splitting.
I highly recommend the beautiful Bradford pear tree not only because they provide beautiful color in the Autumn but because they have the most grand welcome to early spring! YOUR THOUGHTS?
One of my favorite blooms this time of year in Ohio is the Primrose. This is the first year I have all three colors blooming at one time. In past years, something has eaten off the blooms on this plant.
The primrose featured above is going to be full of blooms in the next few days ahead. These are planted in a full sun area of my garden until mid-May when the birch tree in this garden gets it’s leaves providing shade.
There are many different varieties of primrose all are tolerant and easy to transplant. Which is your favorite color?
Zoomed in really didn’t do much for me until my critics tonight pointed out how cool it was to see the craters and solar flares in the image.
I’m more about what was going on in the garden as the large moon gleamed over the pond. It was deathly quiet with only sounds of the small fluttering waves created by a fish waking up in the cold water in front of me. Winter was holding on to every minute as she blanketed my garden with her cold embrace.
