Writing Inspiration - Passion Flower Vine

My husband and I were strolling down the gardening aisles of Lowe's and he maneuvered me over to the section with the vines and shrubs, saying I have to check out these vines, they'd be awesome for our trellis.

So as I follow him glancing here and there at the different blooms, thinking okay, I'll let him show me, but I'm really not enthused, because he wants to replace my choice of flowering vine for our trellis. He stops and points, saying, honey I really like this one.

I look over, my eyes widen as I take a step forward. I LIKE IT.

As he's talking about it's self climbing, we don't have to train it to go up, I'm thinking, this is the coolest looking flower I've seen in a long time. Leaning over I smell it, then rub the petals gently between my fingers. I turn to look at him with a smile.

I like it.

He smiles, really? let's get it.

O.K. 

as  he's loading two onto our cart, I start...

that looks so sci-fi to me, I love it and the color (purple is one of my favs). My eyes go wide and I smile, I know exactly which book I want to put this in.

He looks at me and smiles.

I start blabbing all the way around Lowe's gardening center, through check out and into the car.

My husband finally turns to look at me and says...you're a chatty little thing today.

I'm like I know right  See what happens when you inspire the writer in me. 

So there is where one of my writing inspirations came from. 

The Passion Flower Vine .

Passiflora, known also as the passion flowers or passion vines, is a genus of about 500 species of flowering plants, the namesakes of the familyPassifloraceae. They are mostly vines, with some being shrubs, and a few species being herbaceous. For information about the fruit of the passiflora plant, see passionfruit. The monotypic genus Hollrungia seems to be inseparable from Passiflora, but further study is needed.

Wikipedia

Gardening Quotes

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view.  ~H. Fred Dale (Thanks, Anne)

 Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.  ~Lou Erickson

 There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.  ~Mirabel Osler

 The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.  ~Hanna Rion

Have a great day all!!

Gardening Quotes 5.17.12

Gardening is one of my passions, thought I'd share some quotes I found with everyone.



My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view.  ~H. Fred Dale (Thanks, Anne)


Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.  ~Lou Erickson


What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.  ~Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden, 1871


There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.  ~Mirabel Osler

Have a great day!!
C~

Gardening...Holy Cow are those my...

CHIVES !! Woozers!! I took two cutting 7 days ago and they're ready to be cut again, talking about growing like weeds!! That's ok, that's ok *smiles* sounds like mashed potatoes tonight with some *dun dun dun* CHIVES on them YA!!

My lavender is flowering and ready to be cut back, my rosemary is taking off like crazy, my bell peppers are flowering NOW...if only I could get my carrot seeds to go *hmmmm* I'll have to work on that, and my zucchini and summer squash planted, before they start flowering to produce :-)

I still haven't worked out an awning system to pull over my raised beds (hence no zucchini and summer squash in ground...yet) so the Florida sun doesn't burn them to...well you know where and my pup seems to think they're a special potty zone just for him, LOL. How does this happen?? Well at least the soil is getting fertilized LOL, guess I can't complain there.

Well I hope everyone has a great day!! I'm off to a bridal show with my soon to be mother-in-law, woo-hoo!!

Happy reading all!!

C~

Crazy Store Prices

With veggies becoming much more expensive in the stores, I've decided to take matters into my own hands.

YUP...I planted a garden.

Now farming is in my blood, my grandfather had a huge farm up north (people down here call them ranches.) It was a pig farm, but there was every animal you could think of, including work horses to pull out the fallen trees in the fall to heat the house for the entire einter. Huge fields of corn, hey if it didn't sell it went to make cow corn for the winter.

My grandmothers personal garden was nothing to sneeze at. It was a good half acre and had everything from corn to strawberries. We never went without a good pickle or blackberries in the winter time. Yummy!! And there was an apple orchard about about an acre in size.

So I've done what I can and we have two raised beds, one herbs, one veggies. The romaine lettuce is coming very well and we've been snipping leaves off for sandwiches. The sweet banana peppers and cubana peppers are belling. I'm waiting for the 72 bell pepper seeds planted to start peeking up out of the soil and the only tomato plant to start doing it's thing.

I can't wait to start with the summer squash and zucchini!!

My herbs, I love fresh herbs!! There's nothing like walking out doors in the morning before the heat of the sun, OK it's Florida, so I go out after the sun has gone down to gather my mint or sweet basil or chives for baked potatoes that night with dinner.

Fresh grown goodies...it's a good thing :-)