(Re) Chic

Check out some of the great things that have been growing in my garden! I have pretty much seen nothing but these daylilies all summer...they're EVERYWHERE in my garden plot.  I left them because I didn't have it in my heart to pull flowers out...and they've taken over!  And then I was pleasantly surprised when these started to bloom:  6 feet tall and more of a coral color than is really shown in the photograph and most importantly, seemingly unbothered by the construction and moving of the waterline and beds right on the other side of the fence.   And then there's the world's most excited pepper plant: Yes, you're seeing that right...there are 4 peppers on that plant!  The other one barely has a little nub of a pepper on it and this one is about to be so loaded it can't hold them all!  I'm just hoping that these peppers start turning (they're supposed to be chocolate) soon...we've had some varmints getting into ...

I apologize for my lack of updates lately. So hopefully this one will be nice and long and placate you angry blog readers :-p   I finally felt well enough today to go back out and work on the "garden" on my porch. It's been terribly neglected lately. So first, I repotted the blueberry bush Josh bought me.  We're really excited about it...its a Pink Lemonade Blueberry which we think sounds AMAZING!  It was in a really small pot when we bought it but since it was so close to fall I wanted to wait until it dropped its leaves, I know it looks sad, but its supposed to look that way.   After that I planted the iris rhizomes that I got from my Mom over labor day weekend.  I know its been over a week, but they were so dry to begin with I think they'll be fine.   Don't judge my Walmart bag...I was recycling! I was thinning them for her in the hopes that they would bloom better next year but they were so thick in her flower bed that I...