Welcome to Kimberly's Garden


on Monday, April, 05 2010 @ 01:51:25 pm (595 words)
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The idea behind Kimberly's Garden is twofold; one is to have a place where I can share my gardens with others, and two,  a single location for all things garden where one can come to gather information on plants, learn new tips, share ideas, and exchange plants and seeds with others.  I will be including a forum soon that I hope will become a community of friends where fellow gardeners meet to ask for help, give help to others, and exchange ideas.  I am excited about "Kimberly's Garden" and what I hope to accomplish with it.  My goal is to build a community where gardeners can gather as well as a place I can showcase my love of gardening.  Gardening can be as simple as a few containers on a patio, to full scale gardens covering acres, to everything in between.

Gardening has been a life-long passion with me that started at an early age.   Mum and Dad had this passion as well and it carried over to me.   Never did we live somewhere that we did not have gardens around our home, both vegetable gardens as well as flower gardens.   During my childhood we lived in rented homes and often when we first moved in, the home would be bare of any real gardens; a situation that we would soon remedy.  I remember moving to one home that had an old tree stump a short distance from the house.  Mum and I dug up the soil around the tree stump and soon had flowers growing.  The stump of the tree served as as a stand for a pot of flowers.  It was not long before we had proper gardens around the house with a wide range of flowers and plants growing including a vegetable garden that provided fresh produce for the table.  I live not far from the last home we rented and I often drive by the place on my way to town.  The place is nothing like when we lived there; the gardens are bare of the flowers we worked so hard to plant.

Spring has arrived and the daffodils and forsythias are in full bloom.  There are a variety of daffodils in the gardens, and the variety helps to lengthen the time that daffodils are in bloom.  My peach and plum are also covered in blossoms, and the plum fills the air with it sweet fragrance; the bees are having a day feeding on the plum.  So far this spring we have been lucky and the temperatures are staying above freezing.  Last year we had three days in spring where the daytime high did not go above freezing.  The results was that I lost part of my fig bush, two rose bushes that I had just planted, the plums, apples, and peaches were severely limited in production to almost nothing, the peonies did not bloom; the buds stopped growing, and I noticed the back garden holly did not produce any berries.  This spring has been gorgeous and I hope that it continues to be so. However, the last average date of frost for my location is April 15, so there is still plenty of time for a killing frost to arrive.

Below are a few shots of the various daffodils (narcissus) in the gardens as well as a shot of one of the back garden forsythias. There are between 40 and 200 different daffodil species, subspecies or varieties of species and over 25,000 registered cultivars of daffodils. Therefore, one can have a great variety of daffodils in a garden of which I only have a few.

 


6 comments

Comment from: Mickey [Visitor]
Mickeywhat a brilliant idea I wish you good luck and good gardening
04/05/10 @ 14:25
Comment from: kimberly [Member]  
KimmyThank you Mickey. Feel free to drop by as often as you like.
04/05/10 @ 14:28
Comment from: Princess Leah K [Visitor]
Princess Leah KI love your site. Your flowers are so beautiful! I’ve always enjoyed the pictures! I planted a few flowers last week. Just a few in my small front flower bed. But it does make everything look nicer. Hugs!
04/05/10 @ 17:15
Comment from: Ron [Visitor]
RonYour flowers are beautiful, Kimmy! I’m so pleased that you have this blog now, and I look forward to learning much from you and exchanging information and discussing gardening experiences with you. Wishing you tremendous success here.
04/05/10 @ 19:42
Comment from: SpaceEagle [Visitor]  
SpaceEagleThis looks good. I could use some gardening tips.
04/05/10 @ 19:43
Comment from: Princess Leah K [Visitor]
Princess Leah KI hope the summer is treating your garden well and everything is growing!!! I enjoy coming to visit this website for gardening tips and to see the lovely flowers and plants, as always!!! Happy Summer Sis!
06/13/10 @ 23:25

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