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I have been busy painting watercolors this week, and now need to catch up! (Thank you so much to my friends who continue to check on me even when I haven't posted! ♥♥)...
This is Peter the Toad...so named by my son Jonathan...(he is almost grown but just loves these little toads around our house)...we had company on Sunday...some small boys who wanted to "catch toads"...Jonathan was so worried that they would hurt one...he immediately went to oversee the hunt and to make sure they just looked and didn't harm any...
My sweet, gentle boy! (LOL ~ he would be so embarrassed!...he doesn't read my blog, though, hee, hee....) ~
Anyway, "Peter" got his name because earlier this Spring Jonathan found him in our back yard, and he had an injured mouth...(not much you can do for a toad ~ and it appeared to be healing) ~ Jonathan named him Peter because he said it looked like he had a "hare lip"....;^)
So now, he is easily identifiable for Jonathan. If you look on the right side of Peter's mouth (his left) you can see that it is slightly disfigured, though completely healed now. I guess our back yard is his "territory" ... are toads territorial? He seems to have decided he likes it here, at any rate. Tonight he was snuggled down under the moss in my Fairy Garden. (below)
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Aren't these gorgeous? They are from my daughter Mandy's retail shop ("Enchantments"...isn't that a great name?) of long ago...(the one that made me realize I did not need a shop to be fulfilled in this lifetime...;^)
They are "Witch Balls"...the threads of spun glass inside them are supposed to catch and hold evil spirits....
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My gorgeous hot pink petunias of March/April finally began their decline (they looked like most petunias do in late August... except in May)...since they were hold-overs from last year, I wasn't surprised, or upset ~
I was anxious, actually, to get the pots replanted with new vinca and vinca vine, with a few pink and white cypress vines in the middle...
Mr. B refused to just discard the spent petunias though, so now they are re-planted at the side of the house...
Typical...
"American Pickers" needs to contact me, seriously...;^)
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My Butterfly Bushes are beginning to bloom! These were Mother's Day gifts from last year from daughter Katie...♥ They have such a unique fragrance...kind of like honey...kind of like wine...a sweet"boozy" scent that bees love, anyway!
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"Sweet Annie" ! No, not me, this wonderful aromatic herb!
I have thought about this plant for years (ever since having a dried wreath of it ages ago), and just this year got some seeds from an eBay seller and planted them (good thing I read that the germination period is LONG or I would have given up on them and planted something else in that pot!) The seeds themselves were almost microscopic...and it took a good three weeks for them to sprout!
She's growing well, now and will hopefully reseed...she is of the Wormwood family (Artemisia Annua) ~ the same herb family that is used in making absinthe!... I also got some seeds for that particular herb, Artemisia Absinthium, which I will plant this weekend, along with a whole row of flowers/wildflowers in the garden.
(I will not be brewing up any absinthe; I just think it is interesting...;^)
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Aren't these snow white petunias pretty? I have them in a pot on the patio steps with vinca vine...every once in a while you catch a whiff of that lovely evening fragrance!
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Plumbago...I got this plant when my younger daughter Katie and I went to visit older daughter Mandy in St. Charles a couple of weeks ago (when we got the cool statuary photos from Bellefontaine and Calvary Cemeteries)...
It is tropical, but supposed to be non-poisonous, so I can try to winter it over inside...it looks a lot like Sweet William, but has the most heavenly blue flowers!
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Anyone that has anything to do with naming a product, no matter what kind, has to be aware of their power over most of the buying populace...
I can't understand companies that have products, colors, etc., just numbered.
I don't think I am alone.
I am such a sucker for a name...
This coleus is called "Alligator Tears"...
I would probably not have purchased it otherwise!
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One can never have enough Vinca Vine! It is perennial, so you can justify buying lots of it, right? (It winters over in pots just fine)...only thing is, I just keep getting more pots..
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Daughter Mandy dug this moss up for me for the Fairy Garden...not sure if it's going to make it; it gets quite a bit of morning-to-mid-day sun...but it's hanging on for now...
(I love moss!)
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