Tuesday, January 26, 2010

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY TODAY, PERFECT FLORIDA WEATHER! BUT I HAVE TO ADMIT I'M ASHAMED TO CALL MYSELF A GARDENER! LOOK AT THIS MESS.

If I only would of not taken sooooo many tea breaks. What a beautiful day.
PRODUCTIVE????? A little bit. I would do a little something and then sit in my favorite spot.

I'm still cleaning up from the cold snap we had a few weeks ago. I guess everything is nice and dried out by now.
This is my front yard, OMG what a mess and you should see the back yard. The back yard has to wait till next week, I have to give MY back a break.

Every time I garden I think of my dad. I once caught him trying to straighten up after some weeding. I was young and full of energy, he explain that getting old just creeps up on you and one day you realize you can't do what you use to, even though your brain is telling you that you can. Well, do I know now what he meant!

This little guy looked so cute. This Star burst tree had blooms, it looked great. Well I had to cut it back a bit.


This Alamanda gone too!


This baby Bougainvillea took a beating too, I didn't have the heart to cut her back, but I know I have to.


This ground cover was green and full. This little planting area is right at the corner of front property. It gets the wind all the time.



Dollar weeds anyone....... They have taken over my front yard. The weeding has gotten away from me!!! I spend most of my time today weeding and weeding, OMG what a mess.
But, I so enjoyed it! What a glorious day, the weather was perfect. Sunny, cool and a bit windy, just a great gorgeous day!



These stepping stones go from the front porch to the side of the drive way. I put them myself and I love how they turned out. LOOK, even the grass got all dried up.



WEEDING - WEEDING - WEEDING. This area is my favorite, can't wait to show you once I weed it and mulch it. It's going to look great again!


2 comments:

  1. Good morning Marlene, I can see you have a lot of work in your garden... me too. Is just so nice to spend time doing hard work out in our gardens!!!! I love it as you do.
    If you live in South Florida it means you have almost same temperatures all year round, is it right?? It´s kind of tropical weather over there, isn´t it!!! So really I would like to comment something about your garden but yours is so different weather that I just can´t say anything... my experience with gardens goes to very different seassons here, from very hot and dry in summer, to very cold and dry in winter, with a very distinctive autumn and spring times... so we have all the seassons in its fullest...so it means different vegetation than yours..
    Muchos cariños,
    Maria Cecilia

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  2. Marlene, I know the feeling, I am not done cleaning up the mess, it seems like all my plants were affected by the cold weather except the weeds

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