Deck and Patio

It has been a quest of sorts to find a table top for 

the curvy metal table base you see here.

 I was about to give up when I found a piece of sealed granite in a

 junk shop for a ridiculously low price.

 It weighs almost 80 pounds.

 Joe told me never to find a larger piece.

If an item is big and heavy I want it.

We routinely eat on the deck and bird watch. 

The hummingbirds arrived early this year. 

The hummers ignore us while flying from feeder to feeder.

The patio area will have flowers blooming around it shortly. 

The roses and amaryllis are budding.

I basically rely on perennials but do use a good many petunias in planters. 

They are not terribly thirsty and take this awful Deep South heat.

I have sweet mint (above), chocolate mint, rosemary, thyme, and basil 

growing on or near the deck. 

The rosemary and thyme are winter hardy here.

My first foxglove is blooming but I will share that beauty later.

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joy and peace

Olive

Spring Garden Readiness

This Thyme that I purchased in a nearly dead condition last summer, for fifty cents, has survived and even thrived. It is winter hardy here too. I have had two of these rusty blue tile tables in storage and decided to use them on the deck. I am slowly clearing and cleaning the deck and pergola. Yikes, I did not sweep it.

The pansies have smiled at us all winter. It is hard to tell but rosemary is growing in the purple pot. I enjoy growing herbs pretty much for how they look. I also have rosemary growing in a planting bed now {it is winter hardy too}.

More pansies and blooming variegated vinca slightly different from the vinca at the old house I showed you on Friday. I like the vinca flowing out of the overhanging deck basket. The pansies will soon be replaced with another flower. Joe and I have worked tirelessly, this weekend, in the yard and flower garden. I cut an uncounted mind and finger numbing number of monkey grass bundles, with scissors, because they are where our mower cannot reach {because I must be ever so slightly mad too}. I went to bed last evening when the sun was still high in the sky.

I should give this camellia bush a special name because despite our strange weather she has been beautiful this year. I adore this soft pink color. I think I can say our flower garden is ready for spring. By doing a little bit here and there, every weekend, we have managed to get where we want to be with it. We are blessed by our little yellow house that you see here on Olive Out. Thank you for sharing the journey with us.

~please forgive me I am chatty when exhausted~

happy gardening

Olive