Debra it is good to hear that you are improving nicely. We need you
Enjoying the beautiful blooms in your garden.

Deb - just praying you'll have a wonderful day today and continue the healing process

Easy Does It // First Prize


Clematis Florida sieboldii and Lantana New Gold


Coral Drift


Orange Harvest

Beautiful roses Deb. And your new Avatar photo cracks me up

Had a post-surgery hiccup which meant an early trip back to the doctor on Wednesday. Will resolve in December at the originally scheduled checkup appointment, but, while there this week, got absolute permission to use the garden fork!!! So, yesterday and today, I have been loosening soil and sifting rock from the section where I want to try vegetables next year. Some juicy 'maters and tingly jalapeno peppers would be right nice, now, don't you think?

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Bee butt.



First Prize



Salvia Victoria Blue



Lemon Fizz



Orange Harvest

Love Bee Butt along with the beautiful flowers. Was thinking of you today and wondering if you were home, good you can be in the garden doing your thing.

Such a beautiful garden, always, Debra. So full love. Take care of yourself!

Glad you're back in the garden. Hope you keep healing

Debra, take it easy out there digging.

Glad you got clearance to get back to gardening, Deb -- but not likin' the hiccup part!!!!

You all are the best recuperative support anyone could have. Thank you.

Mary Ann, told it is a fairly common occurrence after surgery, no biggie. Hurts a little, but not bad and will take care of it later if it doesn't go away by itself.

I beese going back out to do more digging later today. Prefer to work in the mornings, and temperatures are cooler, however that section isn't shaded until mid-afternoon. Guess I'll just have to, oh, I don't know, read and drink coffee until then?

Love the mug Deb. Mine at work says "coffee not working bring jumper cables ". Glad it's a normal hiccup and nothing serious. Blessings

Photograph from yesterday morning before I got started. Worked some on digging dirt and sifting rocks in the bed itself, but spent more time digging out some of the grass you can see to the bottom right. Nasty stuff.


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Also from yesterday morning.

Trailing Lavender Lantana // It's so greeen...



Heritage. Isn't that a glorious form? // Ahwanee Princess. Had in ground for three years, first time to see a bloom stalk.



Scarlet Flax popping up ever'where. // Southern Belle--before the pom-pom.

I'm glad to hear it was a "normal" hiccup Debra. It's great having permission to use the garden fork! Just don't go nuts right off the bat please. I'm a worry wart.

Hummmm...... scarlet flax sure loves your place. It didn't do very well here but I'm wondering iffn I ought not give it another go around.

The Heritage rose is gorgeous - perfect bloom in my opinion.

Dug and pulled a five-gallon bucket of nasty-grass today from several sections of the yard. Only made a small dent, but it is a dent.

Then there are allllllllll these buckets of rocks. Have another full one of those three-gallon-size blues off camera. Some of where I was digging/pulling/sifting was close enough to lob rocks over from where I sat. Pretty good aim, if I do say so myself.
At some point--no telling when, but surely sometime--my brother-in-law will come get the rocks to use for pouring a parking pad at their house. Sometime...

That's a lot of rocks!!! If you have enough for a parking pad when you get done you REALLY had a bunch!!! Don't overdo!

Ginny, been sifting rocks from this side yard for almost two years, so the buckets are an accumulation. Pretty sure I am going to get another bucket full before I decide to stop sifting. I think a previous owner here laid down the rock for their own parking area. Kinda tough to pull in two cars when you have a one-car Model T driveway and a single, detached garage. BIL will certainly need more for the size pad he has in mind, but using these will save them some money...if they ever get around to putting it down. In the meantime, no one can steal the boat all the buckets are sitting in front of, right?

I'm constantly sifting through rocks in my yard. I had enough out of the new Prayer Garden that I used them above my boulder wall to disburse the water from the downspout so it would quit washing my dirt and mulch down the hill! I just wish I could uncover some nice sized ones to actually enhance the landscape And you have to do what you can to keep your boat safe I hope you have a wonderful day Deb!!!