Mother's Day weekend means planting with Mom

My Mom loves planting flowers for our house. Every year we plant them on Mother's Day and watch them bloom until late fall, when she finally has to dump them into our compost heap. The challenge is always figuring out which flowers to buy (she aims for partial-sun plants since both the deck and front of the house are slightly shaded during the day). This year we came home with the following:

Ageratum, Alyssum, Bacopa, Calibrachoa Hybrid, Double Petunia, Petunia, Oxalis, Dracaena Spikes, Snapdragons, Salvia, Variegatus and Hypoestes. Since that's a whole mouthful of names, the photos of our day of planting are below. Enjoy!

Community Garden in Seattle

We just got back from a trip to Seattle and though there is much to share about our garden, I thought I'd take a day to relax and share some images of a community garden instead.

We stumbled onto this on our way to dinner one night. I love the way it seems like many people participate with small plots in this garden and especially how it's not organized in any way. It feels really fun and inspiring.

It really made me miss our little garden at home!







P.S. If you happen to be in Seattle, this garden was on Elliott and Vine. Check it out!