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Farms and Fairs

We’re having a big time at the farm in Indiana. We enjoyed an outing yesterday to the little county Fair where sweetie girl got to ride on the Moon Jump and to ride on a pony.

We also ate some delicious sweet corn and some (not so delicious) chili cheese fries (which I knew was a mistake when I ordered them).

Today we’re having a quite day on the farm, feeding horses and watering plants.

I love that everything is green here – they are wondering where the heck summer is.

I know.

It’s STUCK in Texas!

This was my favorite exotic chicken at the fair. I really like them — when they are someone else’s!

And then below, sweetie pie is checking out the goats with her uncle.

By Diana C. Kirby|2016-04-14T02:44:32-05:00July 19th, 2009|Blog, Fairy, Indiana, Kallie, Sharing Nature's Garden|0 Comments

Well, it doesn’t photograph very well yet, or maybe it’s me (!) but here are the new additions to the Greenhouse corner bed.
I’ve put in an Indigo Spires Salvia, three Lamb’s ears, a variegated Quasimodo Agave, 3 Violet Pentas, 1 Warsaw Nike Clematis vine and a packet of Bachelor’s buttons. I have about 6 more packets of cutting flower seeds to sow and a few more plants to buy for the other end, but I am well on my way.
The new plants are joining some Texas Bluebonnets, some mystery lilies and Larkspur given to me by MSS of Zanthan Gardens. On the other end, I have some orange ditch lilies given to me by Lori of The Gardener of Good and Evil, 3 Daimianita, some Stock, and an Agave passalong from Phillip of East-Side Patch.

Guess I could call this my Passalong Garden!

I wish I could say that I had help, but I didn’t! Just observers.

As much as Dakota digs, I sure wish I could train her to dig holes for me, but no such luck. Lately she’s taken to digging in the grass and unearthing earthworms! And then, yes, eating them. And then yakking them up. Nice, huh? Bet you could have gone all day without knowing that bit of information.

But I really wanted to share it with you!

This CLAIMS to be a DWARF agave…I sure hope that isn’t a lie!

My new Buddha will smile on these plants.

Garden Art along Kallie’s playscape fence.

And a very happy little girl enjoying her playscape and making her own fun in the sun.

But even in the sun, she loves writing and reading and hauled her stuff up into the fort to write in her journal. (Yes, she’s 6!)

By Diana C. Kirby|2017-11-29T23:27:47-06:00April 9th, 2009|Agave, Blog, Dakota, desert rose, garden art, greenhouse bed, Kallie, Lamb's Ears, Pentas, Sharing Nature's Garden|0 Comments

Some more of my favorite veggies!

As much as I love the veggies in my garden, I also love going to Central Market to shop their wonderful produce. Kallie likes to sit on the enormous veggies that line the outside of the grocery store.

Too bad it was 101 degrees and she couldn’t actually sit on the veggies, but we had fun anyway!

By Diana C. Kirby|2016-04-14T02:45:13-05:00June 16th, 2008|Blog, Kallie, Sharing Nature's Garden, vegetables|4 Comments

Kallie

Farms and Fairs

Building a new bed…

Some more of my favorite veggies!

Escape in the garden