Green Hour number 4 update....

We are focusing on gardening for the next 8 weeks +, it will actually be all spring and summer and fall and... *Ü* But what we will do is focus on our yard. We have little, ok no landscaping to speak of. Just a front, back and side lawn. Not bad, but I want to attract animals... specifically birds... I have had a humming bird feeder up all year (last Spring) and a few other feeders and I have yet to see a bird other than a crow or a robin! They are so common... I want black capped chickadees or even a pesky Stellar Jay!*Ü*

Now... to begin this plan of ours to garden, RyLee and I went to a local nursery called Clear Creak Nursery on Wednesday. Just to have a look and get some ideas... plus I wanted to see what RyLees fancy was. *Ü* I’m so sneaky...

The first thing we saw were tulips! They are beautiful and colorful! It was so nice to see color other than grey and green... not bad colors, but its all we have seen for about.....5 months.....




We forgot what these were! I guess I have an attention span of a goldfish... lol I should have written it down. We will look it up later and update when we find out.( or go back and look *Ü*)





Now this was a treat! My grandmother had these outside the door of her house. In the spring every time I would walk thorugh the door, I would smell these beauties just before I entered. They are so sweet smelling... I told Ry these were a must... I have to have them. So we will make sure to get these... They are Hyacinths.



At some point, not this year, we would love an area near a garden to place Koi. We could not get over the size of some of these fish! It was like a salmon run!



RyLee and I both decided... we have to have this! Not just yet... but we want to add this to our yard. Firts we need to learn more about what it needs to grow properly... but we fell in love with the Kumquat!




I also signed up for a few classes over the next 5 months.They are only $10.00 each! RyLee only signed up for 1 and thats ok... I want her to only do what she is interested in.... hopefully my excitment for theother things will rub off, and I can "show" her what I learned...

My first class is called Trees for the home orchard. Its a 2 hour class. We will learn what trees grow best in our county, we will cover polination requirments, pruning and how to avoid insects and disease problems....

Gardening with Ed Hume-vegetable gardening. All the basic how toos....

Creating backyard wildlife. Im looking forward to this one as well.

This was our outing Wedesday.... I plan to take Ry to a couple of "real" gardens in a few weeks... I will make sure we post all about it.