State testing had me back in my hall monitor/runner spot for sewing.
I think I like making individual hexies and then stitching them together when I have sets vs. the "Bonnie Hunter" way.
Below are some of my flowers that are growing. Pardon the weeds... School has been keeping me busy.
Forget-me-nots, a poppy, cat grass, Crocosmia. The "holes" in the "purple stuff" (possibly called clustered bellflowers) (which are just green now) are where the lisianthus of various colors are growing. I've never grown those, but hoping for a great year.
I bought the little roots for this light purple plant on eBay about two years ago when another quilter posted a picture of her pretty mounds of it in her flowerbed. I forget the name. This bed needs weeded really bad! The first year I weeded this area I forgot that I had this planted there and pulled a bunch of them out by accident. Oops. Glad they came back!
Foxglove (ferns and iris). The foxglove really re-seeded itself this year. I dug tons of little starts of it out of the driveway and inbetween the cracks of the rocks and planted them in other parts of the property. We shall see how they grow. It seems like they don't care what quality of the soil is where they start. I can't wait until these bloom. I think there are a few shades of pink.
One of my favorite color of costa -- with it's weed friends growing all around.
Bee Balm (between pink and purple)
Lupines (pink I think). I had a red one, but don't remember where it is or if it survived the winter.
Phlox? (saved from the field...when we realized that some of our stuff wasn't on our property.)
Hosta, lamb's ear, and lemon mint... and some lamb's ear that isn't doing so well for some reason.
Hostas and light two-tone lavender iris
Baloon plant (lilac color) and rose campion behind it
My first poppy that bloomed this year! This one is from the plant that I split at Thanksgiving. Behind it is yellow things behind them... oh I forget the name of those yellow things every year. (They often bloom when the "purple things" bloom. LOL)
Bachelor Buttons. Other purple things. LOL (different from "purple things"). The reason why I have this flower is because I was asking my friend for "purple things". She gave me this one--which isn't the one I wanted. I have two pretty bunches of these. They were started with just one flower on a big root only two years ago. I successfully split them this spring. I think the centers of this flower are pretty.
Buttercups hiding in the yellow iris that needs to be thinned dramatically after they are done this year. I forgot what they were when they came up. I split them to make more. This type of post helps me document what they are for when I forget what they are next year.
I've tried for a few years to get my lilac-colored balloon plant to split or grow somewhere else. Last year I just tried throwing the dried out flowers on the stems in the flowerbed. It worked!!! The pretty varigated leave is seedum with a purple flower.
Better photo of the too big yellow iris that will be thinned and replated in the orchard after blooming.
Calla Lily with a varigated leaf. This is my first year for this plant. I bought it and split it. I felt I needed more things with a bright red/magenta tone. I know I need to dig it up after the season. ... and see that baby poppy growing on the left? Woohoo! I've had trouble planting poppies in the past. Again, I threw down seeds after they dried from the poppies last year.
Another gorgeous purple flower -- Columbine? Not sure on the name of this one.
More Columbine. The leaves are similar to the darker one above, but the flower doesn't have as many layers. I still think both are possibly Columbine versions.
That's all for the pics of THIS "protected" flowerbed. This is a dog kennel that my sister-in-law gave me. I keep it in the chicken yard area. Plants in this fence are protected from chickens, ducks, and deer. This is where I put "cherished plants" that I haven't grown before and experiment with planting things until I am sure I can grow them. The soil is wonderful here. It used to be an old garden that I fenced in to raise chickens. I have a garden hose nearby so that water is available and I don't have to carry water.
I'm linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching here.
