Barefoot Gardener

Welcome to my new page on the blog- Barefoot Gardener.    Why the barefoot gardener?  As you can see from the photo, I tend to be waltzing around in the garden without shoes.  Bad idea...probably, but I probably won't learn my lesson and will keep doing it.   These photos are from 2020 and I hope to keep you more updated as the days go forward.   In the meantime, we'll enjoy the shots of the beautiful things of spring and summer to come this year.

My cherry tomatoes are always so prolific and keep our salads happy.

This photo was from July so the heat hasn't taken them down just yet.

Zinnia's and sunflowers are always plentiful in the garden, attracting my pollinating friends.

Cosmos, another lovely bloom that attracts the pollinators, and the more I pick, the more they bloom!

There are never enough zinnia's in the garden!

This is a buttercup, I've never had one before and it was absolutely wonderful. It was also safely tucked away in my greenhouse awaiting its return but snowpocalypse 2021 took that baby out along with everything else in my greenhouse.

Okra, I always think we won't have enough then I think "lordy child, stop planting so much okra".  On the bright side, the okra loves the heat and the summer's in Texas are hot.

I'm just going to assume, I had finished some weeding and took this photo.  It was taken at the end of July so the heat and drought really starts to take the toll on the garden.

Yep, I must have been cleaning the garden, it's never this tidy.   haha

See, I told you I like to cut the flowers

Look at the size of this Dahlia!  Lovely!!

Eye spy with my little eye: one of my favorite little pollinators!

He came in for the landing on the moonflowers.  P.s.  That's not the lovely morning dew on the flowers, it's  septic sprinkler spray   :-) 

These moonflowers were just show offs

I saved some of the seeds so I'm hoping to have these again!

This is my utterly fascinating find of the year.....look, that little flower is perfectly split in color.

tiny perfection

The morning glories took forever to bloom but man when they did!

You can't get me up early most days anymore but for this, yes, I will get up and marvel at them while they are still awake on the back fence. 

so many pretty blue blooms on the back fence

Memories.....all my babies tucked away in the greenhouse in hopes os spring returns

Sadly, this is now full of very dead plants.  

Dang TX energy providers!

Just because, here's another of that perfectly, imperfect little bloom

Dream of Spring my friends!