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Archive for May, 2008

Yeah! I found the disc with pictures from our garden’s first year. These were taken in mid to late summer, 2006. 

Corner shade garden and catnip tree ring in the first year, 2006.
 

Herb garden in barrels, 2006.
 

South view of our back garden area in its first year, 2006.
 

This is a view of the vegetable garden and [...]

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As I promised Shawn yesterday, here are some pictures of our garden in its first and second years – 2006 & 2007.
 
The catnip in its 2nd spring, 2007.
 
 
 Corner shade garden in its second spring, 2007 - the Petunias are all volunteers from the previous year.
 

Blue Mist Blue Beard in its first summer – 2007.
 
 

Squash bed summer 2007.
 

Shade/sun [...]

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Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot about upside down tomatoes so I thought it would make a good blog topic. Until recently I’d never even heard of it but I think it’s a good concept.
 
There are two main benefits to planting upside down tomatoes.
 
1.       Because the tomato plant grows upside down there’s no stress [...]

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 Well, it’s spring . . . I think!
 Monday started out with record breaking heat. Which got me outside and working in the back garden early in the morning (not really too early since I had to get my husband and son out the door, but while it was still cool anyway).
 
I enjoyed a good [...]

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Welcome to Garden Beautiful; A blog dedicated to everything that has to do with beauty in a garden. Check out our About page to learn more about Garden Beautiful and what we have to offer.
To kick this blog off, I thought we should start with a few good gardening quotes (be sure to notice the quote in our header). Enjoy! 
An [...]

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