Peanut Butter

It's Peanut Butter Day!

There were jars of Fisher Peanut butter on the Foyer table at our Church this morning for everyone, brought by Miss Kathy, who works for San Filippo and Sons company. What a treat! Peanut Butter made from peanuts grown locally.

In 2016 I Will

Be aware of Mindfulness. Let go of thoughts with practiced breathing.

Keep fewer photographs. It takes me six times to get a well-focused shot. Delete the rest immediately.

Spend less time at the computer desk. Take a walk. Make tea. Sit elsewhere and read. Finish tasks.

Spend more time tidying. Clear away clutter and organize surroundings.

Offer fewer options. Milk or iced tea? Hot spiced tea or lemonade?

Never Complain. Never Explain.

Twelve Plants I need to Use in New Ways in the Garden

Lemon Grass and Madagascar Periwinkle from another year. Periwinkles are just now showing up with some blooms. Lemon Grass is enjoying the heat.

This GH bed has a mass of white Lantana this year, no Pentas.

Alternanthera Rubiginosa is a great plant where a

large dark mass is needed. 

It will choke out bermuda grass.

Agapanthus, chlorophytum, Purple Heart

Agapanthus bloomed in May, 2013.

A hard freeze in winter will kill the 

tops like last winter and set them back.

I bought Agapanthus in 2007 and 2009.

In 2013 I borrowed seeds off a plant in Tallahassee

and finally had a white bloom in a pot this Spring.

I am going to pot up more plants in August.

Plants I sometimes take for granted:

Persian Shield and its winter blooms,

Tecoma stans' all summer blooms,

Pentas as butterfly magnet and Melampodium,

Loropetalum blooms twice: early spring, late summer.

Beds of Salvia Leucantha need renovating for a

show like this one.

Wax Begonia, what a bedding plant.

Ruellia elegans 'Katie' needs some Lemon Grass.

My variegated Liriope did not thrive.

When these bloom they remind that Begonias are

 worth the trouble to haul them in for winter's keep.

From 2008: The flavor of this bed has changed. Crape Myrtles are now trees.