Why has it been so cloudy and cold here in Dallas this year. It has been the longest winter ever. The sun finally came out today and gave my bulbs some warmth so they could finally pop their heads through the soil. Thank goodness. Happy Spring !!
Tonight I came across a picture I took of a grasshopper that visited our garden on August 30, 2008. As there has been nothing to post about recently with all this winter weather and in extreme anticipation and celebration of Big D rounding the turn towards the most anxiously awaited spring in P&B’s Garden History [...]
Today it is cold and windy and the sun is all covered up by a gray, cloudy sky. I have lost 14 pounds on my diet but I can’t stop thinking about wanting to have some cookies, a large bowl of ice cream and a package of M&M’s.
I feel like our palm tree looks, blah, [...]
I went to Calloway’s this weekend to buy some pansies. I saw this sign at their front door and just had to smile. I am so happy that Spring is coming. I am so tired of leaving for work in the dark and coming home in the dark.
And today it is warm and on Friday [...]
It is Sunday, November 22, 2009 and I cannot believe that we are just a few days away from Thanksgiving. As I walked around the garden today I found many of my favorite roses still in bloom. It is not easy to grow roses, but through trial and error I have found several staples that [...]
Tonght I tried a new recipe that my sister told me was wonderful and she was right. Hard to find a bad recipe from Giada, she is my favorite chef. After the cowboy game Paul and I sat by the fire and enjoyed our Ravioli with a glass of two buck chuck !! Good times [...]
The biggest grasshopper ever seen was photographed last week at P&B’s Garden by this amazed visitor from Chicago.
You can always count on the garden to give you that Kodak moment.
Paul spent his entire Father’s Day weekend in the shade garden and gave up a trip to Austin to continue to work on “go green goes bad”. He made great progress and plans to start planting this weekend. Our irrigator has also promised to come through for us this Saturday and hook up the old [...]
Dino Sekin came over to PB Garden Sunday to check out the progress on the Shade Garden project.
He noticed drainage pipes are starting to be laid in the side garden.
He also ran into Kitty there, but she did not care. She just wagged her tail and said “what are you getting so excited about”.
As my [...]
Today I walked out into the garden and saw my gardenia bush blooming. Oh my gosh, I only waited two years for it to bloom. As I waited for this gardenia to bloom so do you wait for your children to bloom. Here is Jennifer’s latest bloom:
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