Bonnie's blog

There will be a bitter freeze this weekend in DFW.   I am so worried that I will lose some of my favorite flowers along the pathway.  I can only hope for the best.   Still keeping a low profile and staying safe with my BFF. 

Mom's favorite flowers to plant in the yard were marigolds.  She would start marigold seeds each winter in the basement during the winter under her plant lights.  Each spring she filled the yard with marigolds, zinnias and dahlias.   In her memory two very special friends in Chicago planted a ma

Every year Paul and I go to Archie's Gardenland in Fort Worth to pick up our candle trees. https://www.archiesgardenland.com/    We usually stop for lunch after at our favorite Italian restaurant but this year was different.  Donned with our PPE,

Several days of 100 degree weather and several months of abnormal life are starting to take its toll.  So glad I have my garden to look out on everyday. 

It was a fun day at P&B Garden today.  After not seeing the girls run around in our yard since March, we finally got to watch them swim, laugh and giggle up a storm.   Grandma B visited from behind the glass but enjoyed every minute of watching them.  Grandpa social distanced with John Paul

Happy 2nd Birthday to sweet little Austin.  Hope you can come visit Grandpa and Grandma B in the garden again soon.  We love you. 

Amidst the pandemic we have found peace and happiness with each other and in our flower garden.  Paul was not a gardener when he met me, but now he really enjoys it.  And I sure enjoy being with Paul!  Hope we find a vaccine soon !

I started these zinnia's from seeds this year just like my Mom used to do.   I probably would not have done it if I had not been home every weekend and had time to care for them.  I am so grateful that I was able to get these planted, they are just beautiful, just like Mom. 

No golf for two months?  What can we do?  Always projects at P&B's Garden.  Paul filled in all the pathways with new stone and laid bark in all the beds.   He moved all the stone in a couple of days wheelbarrow by wheelbarrow.  It looks amazing. 

Still at home working during the pandemic but this beauty is right outside my office window.  This beautiful perennial does very well in Texas and comes back every year.  Be careful of a white fungus that develops on the trunk, if not cared for it leads to the loss of the plant.  I feed with ros