Showing posts with label hanging baskets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hanging baskets. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

back at the blog... return to amazing hanging baskets.

billions of seedlings, two craft shows in two weeks, science classes to keep moving forward, a very cool jazz concert, and a couple evenings with friends before they moved to NC, and a virus that found home in my respiratory tract (first cold of the 2008-09 season).... OK, enough excuses for not blogging...

A few weeks back My wife and I headed to Longwood Gardens to see the orchid show. Orchids were everywhere including hanging in amazing baskets. I have not had much luck with orchids or creating baskets (well, if one does not put much time and energy into it... what results should one really expect)

But this year, I've got a few things started that I hope will make for a good basket. Thunbergia alata (Black-eyed Susan Vine), Lobelelia erinus (color cascade mix), and Nemesia (Mello Red and White). The seedlings are doing well. Hope flourishes that this summer my own hanging baskets will be featured here.

Monday, January 26, 2009

Hanging baskets... a basket with a view

Can't say I have produced the most amazing baskets at the school, but I have some hopes yet again for this year. Then, I saw what an amateur I am, when I searched through the LIFE magazine photos now at Google images. I know I searched two keywords, one being 1963, the other, I think, garden. But a new record was set today as we cranked out five batches of bread resulting in 8 loaves and 48 rolls. Today... a mixture of rosemary, sage, and thyme.