Viola VIctory

Versatile violas 

vanquish voids, 

vivify views.

New Moon / Spring Sprung March 2015

I thought the night sky at dusk was very nice tonight. A sliver of a moon with Venus above it; you can read more about this night's sky, click here and here.  I tried to get pix of it with my little camera. Looking west, after sunset.

Moon, plum blossoms,
this, that,
and the day goes. 

Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1828

2007 Report

Cleaning up around here today and came across a little baggie of plant tags with a note "these plants did good in my garden containers in 2007."  Thought I'd memorialize the list by posting it here!

Tomato – Sweet Million

Chives

Alyssum – Snow Crystals Alyssum – Easter Basket Mix

Bracteantha bracteata – Sundaze Golden Beauty

Dahlia – Dahlietta Margaret Imp. Dahlia – Dahlietta Rachel

Heliotrope – Marino 2000

Lobelia – Riviera Blue Eyes

Petunia – Wave Misty Lilac

Verbena – Quartz Blue

Zinnia – Profusion Orange Zinnia – Swizzle Scarlet & Yellow Zinnia – Magellan Orange Zinnia – Magellan Yellow

New garden art

I got this kinetic piece of garden at the Garden Show last month. Garden and yard are still slumbering waiting for rest of spring time to catch up.

Willow Cats

Springtime arrived in February this year. Warmer than usual and pretty dry. No roaring lion this March - it arrived mellow as a little kitty cat.  The huge old pussy willow in the yard is a blossom with pollen and inviting all the bees around to take some home.






There are pussy willows
Clad in furry goods,
And a robin singing
In the maple woods.
There's a springing crocus,
And a budding larch,
Who'd ever think the Springtime
Came along in March. 

Anonymous

Daffodils Up!

First daffodils showed up this week. Today was the first full opening. It was 60+ today. Hit a record that was established in 1902!

"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy."  
-  Lope de Vega 

Color leaves the garden....

Messing around in the garden with some final leaves of color. 

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

Emily Bronte