Giveaway Winner!

Hello all! I came home to lots of new flowers blooming. This little snowdrop anemone (Anemone sylvestris) is very pretty right next to the American Columbo. It's a delightful sight in a natural setting such as the area by my driveway.

Today's post is about the winner of the random drawing for a gift from Serenity Health and Home Decor based out of Wisconsin. If you will remember the good folks at Serenity were kind enough to sponsor a giveaway. All you all had to do was comment and wish Skeeter a Happy Birthday. Thank you for those kind wishes to her!


The qualifying number the Random.org number generator selected was 12! The lucky winner is Kristen. Kristen, please contact me via email at: ramseytina5@gmail.com so we can get your fire pit out to you....

in the garden....

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Happy Birthday and a Giveaway!

Happy Birthday to Skeeter!

I have never really been good with birthdays as anyone in my family will tell you, but it is giveaway time and I thought that in honor of my good friend and blogging buddy that I would use Skeeter's birthday as an excuse to giveaway something. So be sure to wish Skeeter a Happy Birthday on this post as she deserves it and you might just get a gift for you! Happy Birthday my friend!! These kitties are for you as I know you love cats. My two 'boys' in the hood are very loving cats and wish you a Happy Birthday too!

The good folks at Serenity Health & Home Decor are kind enough to sponsor a giveaway again this year--this will be the third year in a row and I thank them very much for their generosity. They are very generous each and every year and I can tell you that the first giveaway was a complete smash. Gardener on Sherlock Street won that giveaway. Last year's giveaway was also most successful. I mean who doesn't love the chance to win a free gift or gifts? 

The random winner of this giveaway will get to choose ONE of the following items. All you need to do to be eligible is to comment here, check out what items you might like, and wish Skeeter a Happy Birthday. This giveaway is limited to the United States only. I will use a random number generator to select a number from the chronological order of your comments. For instance, if you comment first then your comment is #1. If the random number generator chooses #1 you are the winner. If you are selected I will need your name and address to pass on to Serenity Health and Home Decor so they can get your prize out to you. I will announce the winner right here on the blog on Friday, April 18th. Monday, 21 April 2014.

The choices this year are themed with the great outdoors in mind. Specifically fire pit and fire accessories. Does that sound like fun? It does to me because there is nothing better than a nice fire pit and roasted marshmallows with a few seats around it to make good memories. Of course you can use several of these fire related items in your house if you happen to be lucky enough to have a fireplace. Without further ado check out the choices for this year: 

Log Grabber
Smore and Hotdog Fork (I have one of these and use it a lot! It's an awesome accessory!)
Large Black Fire pit Poker
Outdoor Classics 36" Cosmic Stars and Moon Campfire Ring
Outdoor Classic Halo Fire Pit
Brazilion Style Double Hammock
Outdoor Classics Family Mayan Hammock

That is a lot of choices and I bet it will be hard to choose but check them out and contemplate which one you would like. Let me know in the comment so I'll know which one to tell Serenity to ship if you should be the winner....

in the garden....

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A Giveaway For You!

I love daffodils! Do you all love daffodils? Let me tell you if you don't you have not explored them enough. There is a daffodil for everyone. Some are small, some big, some single, some double, some fragrant, some are white or yellow or orange or pink or a combination and the list goes on!

I have posted on daffodils many many times during the past five plus years that I have been blogging and I don't ever see that changing. Today's post is special in that I am sponsoring a giveaway in honor of all the friends who have ever given me anything--daffodils included. The above pictured daffodils just happen to be my recent gift from a friend named Carrol. I do not know what cultivar these daffodils might be but I think they are either a Jonquilla division or a Miniature division type daffodil. They are blooming right now in Carrol's garden so I would consider them an early daffodil. The flowers are the size of a quarter and are so fragrant they rival edgeworthia for scent. That is a big scent let me tell you! The foliage is rounded and very stiff but not so significant. When I saw these daffodils in bloom I did not even think they were daffodils. I have tried to research the cultivar but am not having good luck. If anyone has a suggestion as to what type they might be I'd love to hear it. Carrol received these lovely daffodils from a fellow gardener (Mrs. Wooten) who lived nearby. Don't you know passalong plants ensure the person who passes them along is always remembered? I did not even know Mrs. Wooten but now her daffodils will grow in my garden and I will always remember this.


Mr. Fix-it and I were visiting Carrol to pick up some rocks Carrol and her husband were getting rid of as they downsize their garden. Carrol offered the rocks to me. I guess most of my friends know I love rocks and free things so I am almost always right there to get them. My garden is a bit eclectic (just like me) and part of the reason is because I have so many good friends who share not only plants but hardscaping and other garden treasures. In fact, I took home a few other things from Carrol but I'll save those for a later date. Thank you Carrol and Tom!


Now on to some garden pictures featuring daffodils and a few other early blooming perennials. 
'Ivory Prince' is blooming. This is one of the best cultivars of hellebores for all gardens in my opinion.

Right next to the Ivory Prince are a bunch of hyacinths. The combination is quite lovely.

A long shot of the garden with the hyacinths and 'Ivory Prince' show the 'Tete e Tete' daffodils blooming in the lawn. These daffodils were just planted last spring but they will soon be dug and replanted again-on the new property. A gardeners work is never done, or so it seems to me. Sigh. Now on to the giveaway to make your work nicer in your garden!

To make the garden more enjoyable for you, to thank you for reading this blog and being interested in gardening, and to give exposure to a garden related company that I happen to like very much because they are kind enough to allow me to give one of you readers a VERY NICE prize for your garden, I am going to do a giveaway for you all. 

The company is called Serenity Health and Home Decor. You may remember they sponsored a giveaway last year that a very happy fellow blogging friend won and posted about. This year they are very generous with the choices I can give one of you lucky commenters and visitor to their site. Let me first say I don't normally do a lot of these but when folks are as nice as they are at Serenity Health, put no mandates on me to do a giveaway or how I do it, and are so generous to make one of you happy I am all for it. 

Okay, the three choices Barbara at Serenity Health gave to me to giveaway to you all included:

• 3 Jug Outdoor Fountain 
• Lion Head Solar Fountain
• Mayan Double Hammock

I looked at all three and actually really like all three. I could see me using all of them in my garden. Especially the hammock-providing I ever rest! Taking naps outside is a great thing to do! The Lion Head Solar Fountain was awesome too. A very classic choice for a garden. The 3 Jug Fountain is also wonderful. Who wouldn't want to hear the sound of water while gardening? Go take a look at all three and come back and let me know which prize you would select if you won the giveaway in a comment below. I'd love to know your reasoning behind your selection because each and every garden is unique, as are the gardeners. While we could all use all three of these prizes in our garden only one can be awarded. The winner of the prize I selected for you will be announced on April 1st; the drawing will take place Sunday, March 31st at 6:00 PM CST. That gives you three weeks to ponder over the choices. If you like check out Serenity Health on Facebook as well. I will need your name and address to give to Serenity Health once the drawing is complete. They will be sending you your prize directly. This giveaway is open to United States addresses only.

in the garden.....

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