Pretty Pretty Flower: The Prequel

Going back in time, these are my daffodils, which logically bloom before tulips (that's what daffodil means in Latin), apricot tree in blossom, yellow crocuses and some other plant growing next to me. So really, I can't take any credit for that first photo's plant being pretty.

Pretty Pretty Flowers

Last fall, my mom bought me some Dutch tulip bulbs at the Dutch Appreciation Month festival. I was nervous about planting them, because I'd never tried to grow bulbs before, I don't have a great track record with flowers for some reason, and the Dutch scare me a little. However, the results were wonderful, with beautiful purple, red and yellow blooms.







Also, wisteria.

Kraven the Hunter Would be Proud!

As previously noted, I'm currently the 2nd best farmer in Brooklyn. I am, however, the number one greatest cat catcher in all the 5 boroughs and the realms and even any dimensions too. My method is real simple:

1. Put food in trap
2. Cat goes in trap and gets trapped
3. Flex on trapped cat
4. Bring cat to shelter so it can recover from trauma and awe brought on by my gun show
   

Kitty is NOT enjoying being trapped by L Bo the Hunter

Gardening Awards

I'm officially the 2nd best gardener/farmer in the entire borough of Brooklyn that I've seen. I wish I could claim to be the best, but that goes to the old Asian guy who lives a couple blocks away and produces a mind boggling amount of string beans, cauliflower and melons. Also, he's like 300 years old, which it makes it even more impressive.

Turkish eggplant, growing 1 per plant. Excellent. And useful.

Peppers of some sort that will never ripen, most likely.

Blueberry bushes turn red in the fall. Perdy!!

Finally got white sweet allysum, which my uncle assures me is the easiest thing ever to grow, to bloom.

Garden

French Brocade marigolds

Seeing chocolate mint bloom for the first time

I love watching my brandywine tomatoes ripen...

Blackberries, too

My first raised bed, built by me (not Fisher Price)

Leeks, beets, carrots, etc.

BOUNTY! Clockwise, from top: green zebra, sungold cherry tomatoes, costaluto genovese

Larry Larry Quite Contrary

How does my garden grow, you ask?
CHECK IT OUT FOOL!

Raised bed, made out of chopped down Alianthus, or tree of heaven, an invasive species.

Blackberries growing along the wall; being pollinated by a bee

Clematis Etoille Violette; blackberry blossoms

Zucchini blossoms close after the morning; orange day lillies, another invasive

Sugar snap peas growing along a trellis I made; asparagus turns into a tiny tree

Lavender