T Stands for Tuesday-Gardening

    A little Spring has finally arrived here at the lake, although we are still in the low 30's f most evenings and sometimes in the 20's f 

   The lilac bushes are greening up, ground covers are blooming, and the neighbors on either side of us were both here this last weekend.

  It's also time for a link up with friends over at Bleubeard and Elizabeth's T for Tuesday. Just share a drink related photo to join in.

  I made a trip to the Amish farm of the Zimmerman's just outside of Versailles, Mo the city I do food shopping in last Friday. I was surprised to see a new building for a store and also a large greenhouse. The day I visited was very cold so I had both places all to my self. I just mostly visited the greenhouse this trip. Her plants were lovely and I picked up several. Chocolate mint-which I love, Orange mint, lavender plant, salvia, sage, pineapple sage-which one year grew into a small bush for me with lovely little red flowers. Also a phlox ground cover, a few petunias to plant into two small planters, and two geraniums to place into a planter.  Late Sunday I got everything planted except for the phlox. In the mail on Saturday I got three small hummingbird mint plants that I learned about from one of my blog and slow mail friends.  I was not familiar with this one but looking up the plant online the flowers are  really lovely. I hope these make it as they looked pretty small

  a few photos

  This first photo from online and from the seller I purchased from is the hummingbird mint plant in bloom-attracts hummingbirds and butterflies 

      The name for this plant is Agastache kudos coral hyssop

and here are the three I just planted

I will just share a few of the photos-this is the two mints and sage-the mints will make a nice ground cover along this edge, and will be easy to harvest as well.

The new lavender plant-her plants were so healthy and good size too-very happy with the plants I bought. She is always so friendly and helpful too. I forget that she sells her fresh eggs so I need to start stopping by her store more-and she will have fruits and veggies for canning as well.

I picked up a bag of these naturalizer daffodils last year fall, and we have enjoyed the blooms for over two weeks now do to the cool temperatures, these will spread. In front of this old tree stump and large chunk of rock, is where I planted the hummingbird mint plants. I will place my large copper kettle on top of this stump and fill it with soil and plants.

Does anyone know what this ground cover is? This is on the edge of our property beyond the above photo. It is the area I was cleaning up last year and ended up with that horrible poison ivy and poison oak. It is so pretty now I am going to leave it and it is trailing down the hill which is nice too.

    I made a really delicious tea last week. I had picked up a bag of dried elderberries and decided to pair it with a loose tea I had-so delicious.

Below cup is another handmade porcelain cup that our pottery friend-from years ago made. It is fun to drink tea out of it

That's it for me this week. I will leave you with this lovely sunrise from a couple of weeks ago.