New bed of Chrysanthemums and tall Sedum

"Hound Dog" fescue growing next to common bermuda

Tall Marigolds pulled up and thanked for their bounty and raised beds ready for winter.

Oklahoma Sunset September 2019

Jo's back yard prairie

Flowers for the Farmer's Market

My booth at the OSU-OKC Farmer's Market mid August 94 degrees. But still great customers coming out

Tori (front) and Flora (back) getting ready to play. Chewy is looking for a little mud puddle.

New garden bed for tall Sedum and Chrysanthemums.

July 12, 2019

Raised garden beds completed

Front flower bed. I have used for cut flowers.

Nice Saturday at the Farmer's Market.

Sweet Dora checking seedlings

Chewy helping in the garden

Precious Punky

Chewy helping with new raised garden beds

Raised garden beds completed at new home.

Just about ready for planting in the garden and for the Farmer's Market 2019

Seedlings on the front porch adjusting to outside temperatures 2019

First transplants 3-24-19

"Jane Magnolia" in full bloom 2019

Jane Magnolia being a good "Mother Tree" to hold two feeders for the birds. 2019

Jane Magnolia with many bloom buds 2019

JIngle Bell Bazaar November 2018

Small bed on north side of house for quiet times and rest stop for birds 2018

Front flower bed new Home 2018

Beautiful Butterfly or maybe big Moth on my Zinnias at the Market 2017

Last Farmers Market for the year at Edmond OK.

Free Zinnia packet from edenbrothers.com seed company. Planted in July.

White alyssum that was grown from seed. It has bloomed all summer long through the heat and rains.

Bread and Butter pickles from the Parisian Gherkin cucumbers.

Chewy and a bed of Strawberry Blonde and Alumia Marigolds and Thyme. This combination of plants makes a very beautiful garden bed.

Bucket of produce from Juliet and Parisian Gherkin

Chewy with a wet little head from looking in the Juliet tomato plant for "Mators" What a GOOD Helper!!

First harvest Juliet Cherry Tomato

Lemon Thyme that has been blooming for a month

Jackson and Perkins Simplicity double red rose blooming in high 90 degree temps

Fresh dill "Diana" and Parisian Gherkin cucumber harvested the second week of June 2017

Bagworms crawling out of trash can. I did not wrap well enough on newspaper.

Bagworms collected from arborvitae the second week of June 2017

Old Fashioned Daylilies started blooming for Memorial day. I just love the Daylily.

Chewy is waiting for me to get done mowing. It is about 10:00 and he is just about to have to go in to cool off. He wants to stay out with me, but just too hot.

A kitchen jar bouquet of my seedling carnations

Jo's Garden Shop at the OKC Garden Fest 5-13-17.

Herb Boxes

Hanging Plant Boxes

First seedlings of marigolds and carnations getting ready to be hardened off outside

Dora checking her yard for "critters". She has to have space so the seedlings have to be moved.

The seedlings are in the process of hardening off to go into bigger pots and outside for selling at the OKC Garden Fest May 13, 2017

Seedlings ready to be planted and repotted for the OKC Garden Festival

This lovely Iris opened up 3-2017 and it is the earliest my Iris have ever bloomed

Spring Iris blooming very early 4-1-17 and my make believe wild bird and chicken friends

Here are some pictures of the back yard garden after Chewy and I spent a week cleaning the planting beds and getting ready for spring planting. Hopefully they look a little different from the winter 2016 picture on this page. 
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