Fertilizer Friday

It's Friday, and that means a visit to Fertilizer Friday over at Tootsie Time.
Check out her blog party and see what other people have blooming in their gardens.

I am not doing an herb of the week this week. I spent the week researching two different herbs that were so boring they about put me to sleep just writing about them, so, out of kindness to my readers, I am not passing any of the things I found along.

But I did want to do a quick update about our garden.

When I put out Christmas lights last year, I outlined our raised beds on both sides of the sidewalk leading to the house, with plain white lights. I liked them so much Diann had to finally take them down this spring because I left them out there. In fact, I turned them on every night until well into March, I especially liked the way they looked in the snow.

So, when Diann took them away, I knew I had to get something different. We looked until we found decent pricing on solar lighting, each year it gets fancier and the stuff from last year is cheaper, so with all the new and exciting stuff that is out this year, the plain old stuff was finally affordable.

We lined our walk with simple solar tulip lights and put one in each corner of our flower bed.

With the addition of a few of the new color changing sparkly novelty lights, we have a soft subtle lighting that recharges each day and gives us a magical light show each night.

After a stressful day, especially on a cool night like tonight, it soothes the spirit, calms the nerves and relaxes the mind, to sit on the patio and watch the lights slowly change color.

Tootsie briefly mentioned moonlight gardens in her blog last week. Although what we have is not a moonlight garden, it is a garden that can be enjoyed equally by day, or by night.



Have a wonderful Friday, I hope to find a more interesting herb by next week.

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