Chasing hummingbirds

Each spring, hummingbirds can be found in our greenhouses. One flew by me this afternoon in our ivy geranium greenhouse, and I just I happened to have my camera. The chase was on for the elusive hummingbird photo. Hummingbirds often get "stuck" in our greenhouses. They seem to think that the only way out for them is up, towards the light, which means bumping their heads into our greenhouse roof (don't worry, it's soft plastic). As evening comes, they discover that down and out through the door is the way out. It's always a treat seeing them

Lots of blooms

A stroll through the strawberry patch today showed lots of blooms, but no berries, not even tiny green ones. Our guess for the first ripe berries: June 20th (later than usual).

The wave watch begins

If you've been to our farm in late April or early May, and taken a look over at our house, you might have noticed our bed of daffodils. One of the dilemmas gardeners face each spring, is having to wait for the bulbs to die back, before planting other flowers in their place -the sooner you replace the bulbs, the less well the bulbs will do next year. We plant Tidal Wave Petunias between our clumps of daffodils. The daffodils are happy because they aren't cut off, and just wait to see how fast those Tidal Waves out grow the daffodils!

When will it rain?

It's a quiet day on the farm, time to do some computer work, such as starting up this blog!
The guys are out weeding the strawberries, and we hope to get that all done before the rains begin. While waiting for customers, I'm tidying up the greenhouses, the flowers do look great if I do say so myself!

So far so good (for me, the novice blogger), I've uploaded an image, chose "small", maybe I should have made it bigger? We'll see.

The picture is of a cart loaded with flowers that a customer picked out from our greenhouses. Looks like Tango Orange geraniums, Gulliver White bacopa and Silhouette Red double impatiens.