flower update....

The grass around my flower tubs needs cutting (remember this is where I sowed the new grass seed???) but Lloyd didn't like to cut it because the lilies that popped through were about to flower and a few little Shasta Daisies also popped through and he knows they are my favourites so he left them to flower :) He also noticed two Hostas popping up so he left them for me to move which I haven't gotten around to yet - so it looks messy around my tubs yes, but you can see the basic effect of the tubs and the apple tree (that has no apples this year lol). This is at the end of our driveway kind of and greets you as you turn into our acreage.

My papery sunshine...

I can't remember what this flower is apart from they labeled it as a type of false sunflower (there are many different kinds of flase sunflowers though) and I have fallen in love with this one! The flowers are gorgeous from beginning to end - the petals are papery and remind me of pineapples to begin with! then they slowly open to look like sunflowers and they last for AGES! And they bloom all summer long! Just gorgeous and it seems to do so well even when you forget to water ot for ages! STUNNING :) The different stages of flower look gorgeous together :)

Pink lily....

Sammy's Sunflower

Sam grew this sunflower from a seed with Lloyd in a pot. We replanted it in the front flower bed as soon as we could and it did really well until one storm when it split half way up the stem. It had a cane supporting it but the storm had been too much for the cane.

We thought it was going to die but we were so sad and we tried to keep it alive despite the damage to the stem - there was literally just threads of stem keeping it alive but the sunflower kept going and shockingly it kept going and it grew a head and flowered! It didn't get very tall and the flower didn't get very big - all the leaves died off but it STILL flowered and Sam is sooooooo happy :) He LOVES his flower - as sad and pathetic as it looks :)

I haven't dared touch any f the thistles or weeds around his sunflower lately for fear of knocking the poor thing and knocking the flower! None of our other sunflowers have flowered as early - they won't flower for at least another month yet!

Baseball with the siblings

Another movie clip by Chris