Hello everyone, I hope this finds you are enjoying pleasant spring weather.
We have had lovely pleasant days, days with nice rain,
some days dipping down into the 60s, many days reaching 100, and
one day with tennis ball size hail. Some of the hail was the regular round tennis ball shaped size,
while some was the odd spiked tennis ball size as in the photo above.
Once again, I am overwhelmed with the ever evasive prickly pear cactus
that has been taking over our land and everyone else's land around us.
I spend much time, chopping it up, only to have it instantly grow back in just a few weeks.
It has thorn barbs that are so painful when you get stuck and even more painful to remove. When it is only a few inches high, we immediately chop it up. But these past couple of years, I found this one growing in the middle of our acres........not close to our house and no one gets close to it except for me when I walk and the wild life who roam here. I am really glad I have left it alone. It has the prettiest blooms and is about 4 ft tall.
It's the time of year that the moonflower has grown well and is blooming.
The potted flowers on the porches and patio are blooming well.
Last year, our youngest son gifted me a flower pressing book.
A few weeks ago I took a long walk and gathered a multitude of wildflowers
growing along the grounds.
I arranged a dried pressed bouquet and affixed it to card stock
to send to my son. I just shipped it and I hope it makes it to where he lives without
it getting crumbled and destroyed.
I also made an arrangement in my dried flower scrapbook.
I had so many dried flowers left over that I have devised a storage
for them in folders that are then placed in a plastic storage container for later use.
Do you pick and press flowers? If so, what do you do with them once they are preserved?
Do you have a special way to store them? I would love to hear!
Here's wishing you pleasant days and safe weather.
2 comments:
That hail was really big, Kathleen, and hope it did ‘t cause any damage. Cutting down cacti seems a never-ending project. No, I have never dried flowers but your wildflowers look lovely and hope they travel safely to your son.
Very strange hail!! Strange cacti that grow back so quickly too. I do think their blooms are pretty but I can understand you limiting the space they take up.
Did your nasturtiums do well? So far my seeds don't seem to have sprouted. I'm still hoping though.
My GD asked me to keep some flowers and ferns for her to press. She's hoping to make arrangements behind glass. She has a lot of projects on the go so we'll see :)
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