For my birthday this year, Jen gave me this succulent plant. I love the red edges on the leaves. Hopefully I can keep it living! No green thumb here; however, I think Rob has a green thumb -- see the following pictures of our garden and the delicious cucumbers and tomatoes!!
But before that story, this is the story of my hydrangea flower that Jen gave me for Mother's Day last year. Surprise, surprise I kept it alive for that long and then decided I had better plant it out in the yard and see if it would grow out there. At that point all the flowers had dropped off and it was just the plant. I took it outside and placed it in a container...unfortunately I planted it right before a a major rain storm and where I placed the container was right under an eave and all the water just gushed down and hit the plant -- when I noticed it all of the soil was completely washed out of the container and you could see the bare roots. I could have given up on the little plant, but I didn't. I planted it in a flower bed, gave it some miracle grow and see the results! -- A miracle for sure!
The cucumbers that Rob got this year looked like squash - they are massive. I placed them on our kitchen table to show the length of them.
This is a picture of my cucumber plants. Rob planted two this year one the regular cucumber and the other we think is an Armenian cucumber...
We got a trelis this year instead of cages so that the tomato plants could grow up and not be confined...It definitely worked! Right now our tomato plants are over the top by 2 feet and the trelis is over 7 feet!
The last picture is of my favorite cherry tomato -- the prolific Sungold. We planted only one Sungold this year and it has almost taken over the garden! The joys of gardening :)
