Showing posts with label tulips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tulips. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Hyde Park, Utah

This is where I live.  Hyde Park is a suburb of Logan, in Northern Utah.  We've lived here for 19 1/2 years, and it is the best place I have ever lived!  Here are some pictures, all taken within 1 mile of my home.

I'll start with my yard.

The daffodils are blooming in my front yard.  I know that there will be more snow, because my daffodils always get snowed on.

This is a blue spruce, which is Utah's state tree.  When we moved to Hyde Park, we were able to put Christmas lights and a star on top of this tree.  It has doubled in size!

Deer Berries in the orchard.  I love to see the deer in Hyde Park!  But don't like cleaning up after them.
My tulips are just poking out through last year's debris.  I need to get it cleaned out.  When the tulips bloom, I have to keep them sprayed with deer repellent or the deer will eat them.  When the tulips are done, the lamb's ear grows over them, and attracts butterflies, hummingbirds and bees.

This is our little orchard.  There are 2 apple trees, 2 pie cherry trees, 1 peach tree and 1 pear tree.  The peach tree produces bad fruit.  We're going to cut it down and put a big, juicy plum tree in it's place.
This is our backyard.  The iris in the lower, right corner are popping up and need to be cleaned  out.  There are 2 small fruit trees, further back by the white fence.  An awesome peach and a not so awesome plum.
Here's a closer look at our little peach and plumb trees.  My Dad and step-Mother gave these to us about 4 years ago.  They were volunteers in their huge garden area.  Last year was the first time either produced fruit.  The peach is incredible.  I think the plum is a wild Pottawatamie plum.

This is our little vegetable garden.  We'll plant peas, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, Lima beans, cantaloupe, radishes, Swiss chard, kohlrabi, carrots and maybe some corn.  We can't plant until the ground is dry enough to run the rototiller.

Monday, March 28, 2016

Tulips & Rainbows -- Little Ditty For April

Here's my Little Ditty for April!


The grey, dreary rain clouds of April
Bring the beautiful colors of Spring.

My batik and hand dyed fabrics worked perfectly for this Little Ditty.  It gives it a rainy, watercolor feel.  The quilt measures 18" X 23".  The tulips are done with fusible applique.  And the rainbow and cloud are pieced.  The pattern has 6 pages of instructions.  And the price is only $4.50!

Here's a link to the pattern on Craftsy.

Here's a link to the pattern on Etsy.

Keep watching for my Little Ditty for May!