What Is Growing In Your Garden?

 As our 3rd year living in the sunshine state.  I think I have the gardening part down pat! 

Let's start with some flowers.  Gardenias by the pool door with Jasmin at both ends.  It's quite fragrant.  Not to mention sitting in the butterfly garden!  It will be two years old this June!  That is when I started it.  It took most of the summer to complete due to the heat!

The Gardena does so much better here in North Florida!

This is the blue Jacaranda tree

How American!  Red White and Blue!  I had a butterfly bush just like this one, when living in Kirkland!  It seemed to come back nicely here too!  The blue daze makes it pop, to the best in show!

Purple Allamanda!  They come in yellow too.  I like this color.

The butterfly garden is a fun place to take in the beauty!  I was sitting here till the sun came up this morning with my coffee.  It's quite nice, even in the sunshine before it gets too warm.

The coral honeysuckle, is loved by the hummers!

Different kinds of sage.  It keeps giving and thriving.  The lantana in the background with cone shaped trumpets bloom in the spring and summer into fall too.  Butterflies hang out all day long in our yard.  Before it had nothing here.  Sure easy maintenance but boring!  I took care of that issue!

This is I was told once this was an Italian lavender.  The phone called it Texas Barometer Bush.  What the hell ever, I like it!

I just had to have this!  It's a Sea Grape.  It gives fruit but you need two.  I don't care, I love the leaves and didn't know how it would do here in North Florida.  Two years later it is bigger!  The weather gets cooler here in January.  For a month.

The wall of Jasmine!  That was the first thing I planted in the fall we got here!  It will be 3 years old!  The pool patio is on the other side of that wall of Jasmin.  The arch, is part of my path that I put in.  It leads to another area I call the island.  It's the bird sanctuary full of trees and other cool plants.  I have many bird houses and 3 feeding stations, with two birdbaths.  I also have a birdbath in the butterfly garden.  The feeder there only has mealworms.

The Mexican Petunias came later along with the weeping bottle brush tree, constantly blooming.  A hummingbird and butterfly fave!

Time for the veggie garden!  Lot's of tomatoes!  Cherry and beefcake.  I have garlic going right next to the tomatoes.  It helped in protecting them.  I'll be harvesting the garlic in June.  They take 6 months.  I'll be starting more to harvest in another 6 months.  

Green beans, squash, cucumber, kharabi, corn, watermelon, cantaloupe, carrots, ... The lettuce is now going to seed and I will start another crop in the end of July for another harvest.  I never had to buy lettuce or garlic or tomatoes!  Peppers are still trying to grow.  

I have two rows offset of corn.  When it gets bigger it will be more photo ready.

This is my second time, growing more of them this time, of watermelon and cantaloupe.  

Carrots are wonderful!  I only pull what I need for dinners and such.  Sometimes just snacking on them with the cherry tomatoes when weeding.

Here we go with the one batch of lettuce I am letting go to seed.  That section will be more lettuce soon.  It's a cold weather crop so rest time is coming for a few months.  I'll collect the seeds and put them in the ground in late July early August.

I am also going to try growing these Ice Cream Bananas.  It's been 3 months for these guys that I got.  They were 2 in. tall when I got them.  It takes up to 18 months to produce.  I have 3 and we shall see!  I need to see about growing lemon trees too!  I already have two unusual fruit trees growing.  My brother had fruit on his.  Mine are young but getting there.  They are delicious!  His wife made us some jam from the fruit.  Loquat, is the name.  Yummy!

We need a break from all the BS going on.  I'm thinking now, as I really always have, that my attitude on colleges has not changed.  They are really full of stupid people!  Why anyone would ever give to a collage is beyond me!  F'n WHY?

You want to have stuff?  WORK FOR IT HONEY!  Manual laborers will be healthier, because it involves more body exercise.  Happier and healthier and most likely WISER!  My job was physical.  I can relate!

Save for a rainy day, invest be smart!  Stop relying on others!  Think for yourself!  Especially with this corrupt government full of commies!!  Know your constitution!  

Animals are for eating!  Growing food is good!  If you are against that I can't help you!  You're too mental for me, don't force your pathetic BULLSHIT on me!  Because, I know what sex I am!  There are only TWO!  Either you are born with a stick, or born to have more!  

I am a sinner and I look to God's help with idiots like y'all are!

I needed this break!  Many of my friends do too!  You know who you are!  My friends are the smart ones, the ones with the degrees in life and common sense!  

Honestly, can mankind get any dumber?  Don't answer that, because I am seeing it first hand!  GET THAT FUCKING RING OUT OF YOUR NOSE!  YOU'RE NOT A BULL!  YOU'RE A SNIVELING LITTLE WEASEL!  

As for the hotdog lipped women out there.  You're UGLY!  My husband thinks y'all are fake and dumb looking!  Most smart men do think that!  

We are going to my brothers house for dinner tonight.  Just so y'all know, we all are going to eat meat that was slaughtered, laugh and poke fun at y'all on the commie left!  Have a great day!