Our Plants

I am pretty excited about my plants. I have always wanted to plant flowers and herbs and have tried on occasion only to fail dismally. This year is different! Now, the flowers I planted I took a little help from our friends in the orange aprons (Home Depot) and got them when they already bloomed. I am not sure I planted them as much as I just transferred them but there is still a small measure of joy looking at them everyday and knowing that I brought them home!
There are my lovely plants. They are even survivors of our hail storms that we have had! I am very proud.

I am more proud about my herbs. I love to cook and I love fresh herbs but my bank account doesn't necessarily like either. So since I have to cook something, I usually do not get herbs to go with the meal. :( Well, I thought I would try, again, to see if I can grow some herbs that I can have both! I tried one of the dollar store little pots and that got me nowhere. So then I tried seeds and regular pots again from my orange aproned friends and WALA! (I have no idea if that is the correct spelling!)
I have flat leaf parsley on the left, then chives and finally basil. Isn't it wonderful! I officially have grown something from a seed and not killed it! It is amazing!

This next picture is more amazing. You see with all of the trouble that I have had growing plants and herbs, Ryan has mastered it already, at the age of 1!

These probably look like weeds to you. They did to me! I have been picking these all around the corner of our rock yard for weeks. I was trying to figure out what they were! They just kept growing. Finally today as Ryan was doing one of his therapies outside I realized what they were. They are bean plants! Ryan plays with beans for textural therapies all the time outside and today I was watching him play and he was tucking the little beans in the rocks. Too cute! My little Ryan and the Beanstalk!