Friday, June 1, 2007

Arbors and Guardians


The site of our last family "weed therapy" session


Here's a peek at our arbor in the middle of April

Here's the same arbor this morning (after a trim).


Introducing the new Guardians of the Shoes - courtesy of IKEA
This could've been my new habit, we rocked at this, no more pile of shoes in the laundry room!

4 comments:

athena said...

the arbor is looking so lush! btw, do you grow flowers or vegetables (or both)?

i like the storage idea for your shoes.

Mrs. O said...

Well, I try to grow vegetables, but I mostly do flowers and herbs. We planted the grow boxes to be a sensory garden for Tyler.

We have cilantro, fennel, lamb's ear, lavender, yarrow, phlox, lilacs, wisteria, snapdragons, a tall sedum, a big yellow flower bush that looks like daisies, Mums, lace leaf maple, lilies - and we used to have mints but they took right over.

For veggies, I usually plant peas, cherry and regular tomatoes, and occasionally some zuccini.

My next door neighbor has a thumb ten shades of green. They grow a wonderful salsa garden, but all I can manage to keep growing are flowers - but not indoors, I end up killing all of those.

Anonymous said...

i'm the same way with growing things indoors. any plant i attempt to grow indoors always die. maybe because i rely too much on mother nature's water rather than the one i get from my tap (in other words, i'm lazy). :)

Anonymous said...

I'm jealous you've been to Ikea already. We desperately need some shoe storage also. Maybe I'll check out those guardians.