Garden Bloggers Bloom Day on a Thriving Thursday

Welcome one and all to a very special Thriving Thursday.  Ok so each one is special in it's own way but it sounded good.  This Thriving Thursday is also on the 15th which to many Garden Bloggers is known as Bloom Day.  Carol over at May Dreams Gardens hosts this beautiful event every month.  So after this be sure to stop over there and see what else is blooming around the Blogospere.   So now it's on to my blooming beauties this month.

 Having fun with my flowers I took a bloom off of every currently blooming Rose of Sharon bush and placed them on the table for this picture.  Apparently I have 7 different varieties of Rose of Sharon.  How cool is that.

 In honor of the Thriving Thursday portion of the post here is my Sweet Mint showing off it's pretty little flowers

 Some Saliva flowing away.

 Another variety of Saliva blooming a pretty blue.

A Rose still blooming away small and colorful

 Not the best picture in the world but a shot of my flowering Morning Glories.

 Another Rose covered in dew showing off this morning.

 My favorite Rose bush even decided to play nice this morning even with dew on the petals.

Another not so good picture but it shows one of my gardens full of color....mostly orange but still pretty non the less.

So that's my tour of the gardens and what is blooming this GBBD so what do you have blooming?  Thanks again to Carol for hosting this colorful and fun event each month.  Head over to May Dreams Gardens and see for yourself how pretty it is.

Thriving Thursday - On a Friday

Another week almost passed me by before I got my Thriving Thursday post out.  If it helps I started it yesterday but things came up and I had to stop.  So on this Friday morning what is Thriving in your gardens?

 I have a pumpkin.....finally a pumpkin that didn't fall off.

 My herb Marshmallow is flowering...pretty white flowers with purple middles....

 The orange froggy dude is doing great in the greenhouse.  He really likes it in there.

 While the White Rose of Sharon bush is flowering it's beauty, the bee's are playing in the pollen.

 Baby spider plants are rooting quite well in water....this guy was potted up to be sold through the other site (www.theirishgardens.com)

And finally Tomato's, Cucumber's, and herbs were thriving and ripening.

So what is Thriving in your neck of the garden blogosphere?  Write about it and add your link below.

Harvesting Edible Garden Tour - Thriving Thursday - KinderGARDEN update

Another month has pasted us by and brings us to the 21st where we show off what we are harvesting in our gardens.  This month the tour lands on a Thursday which means it's also Thriving Thursday and KinderGARDEN update day as well.  So today's post will contain a portion of each as today they all happen to work together.  See Aiden's Cucumber plant is Thriving to the point of harvest.

 Granted it's a little odd shaped but ready it was.

 At least according to Aiden it was.  He looks so cute trying to look at it.  But look out and look close he is armed with scissors.

 One curly prickly cucumber coming up.

 This is the inspection face.  But look out don't tell him it's funny looking he is still armed and 4 years old.

 Aiden picked his 1st cucumber so Shannon said she must pick hers as well.  Shannon's 1st cucumber was not even half the size of Aiden's but like him she declared it ready to pick.  As there are over 90 days left of the growing season and more buds ready to bloom who am I to tell her she can't pick it.

 So now it's time to watch out for the armed 8 year old.

 And this would be Shannon's inspection face....I think. But again be warned any bad statements about her cucumber could be detrimental to your health as she is also still armed.

 So on to the non kid plants that are Thriving this Thursday and also Harvesting this month.  The second round of peas is beginning to ripen this season

 Sage is also growing quite well and needed to be harvested.  Just look at those leaves.

And last but not least on my list of Thriving Harvesting plants this Thursday is one of my favorite herbs Pesto Basil.  Even if I didn't like the smell or the flavor of this herb I think I would grow it anyways for the beauty of the leaves.

So The Inadvertent Farmer hosts the weekly KinderGARDEN updates so head over there and see who else is gardening with their kids and what they have been up too.

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Thriving KinderGARDEN Thursday - Week 11 up close

Thursday again time to show off what's Thriving in my gardens today but also the day that I participate in KinderGARDENS over at The Inavertent Farmer.  Today the posts are combined.  Mainly because the Thriving plants are the kids plants.  So if you are participating in KinderGARDENS welcome to Irish Gardens.  If you are here for Thriving Thursday I also wish you a big hardy welcome.

The assignment for this week was up close.  Using Macro.  Well man did I have fun with this.

Aiden's first Cucumber is just about ready to pick.

 A Macro shot of the tendril's from Aiden's Cucumber plant.  So cool looking

 Aiden's Eggplant.  Getting big and looking great.  Thriving in the Greenhouse.

Aiden guy picked me a flower and put it in a cup of water.  I thought he picked if for himself until he told me it was for me as I was taking this picture.

 The little curly guy in the middle is Shannon's first cucumber.

A cute curly tendril from Shannon's plant.

 Shannon's eggplant is Thriving and growing away in the greenhouse.

Frogger here was caught by Shannon and as I didn't want her to keep it I said she could let him go in the Greenhouse along with 2 other frogs that have made it a home.  Frogger just loved the Basil.  He was still on it this Morning.

Thanks for taking the tour today and I hope you come back.  If you want to participate in Thriving Thursday add a link to your post below.  If you have come for KinderGARDENS glad you came, either way be sure to head over to The Inadertent Farmer and see what others have posted.

Thriving Thursday - Knee high by the 4th of July

Earlier this week was the 4th of July.  An old saying of "Knee high by the 4th of July", refer's to the quality of a tall growing crop.  Crops that are long growing and tall are said to be healthy if they are knee high around the beginning of July.  Normally this is used for corn and sometime cotton but it is an old saying. This Thriving Thursday though I am using it for it's literal meaning.   What plants of yours are thriving to the point of being knee high today?

 My corn is more than knee high already.  I certainly hope that this means I will have a good crop.

After our trip my gardens were so much bigger than I remembered and my Echinacea is still blooming.  And   this guy is more than knee high.  The big leaves at the bottom of the picture are Eggplant and they too are also knee high.

 My young Rose of Sharon bushes are back to over knee high as well as the flower stalks to the hosta's.

After a lot of rough starts my morning glory plants are finally getting to be over knee high

So what is knee high in your garden this week?  What is truly Thriving this Thursday?  Post and add your link so we can all see.

I love to hear what others think so feel free to leave a comment even if you don't leave a link.

Thriving Thursday - End of June

The end of June here at IrishGardens means the plants are getting big.  How about your gardens?  Are they Thriving at the end of June?
Here is what is Thriving this week.

 The Butterfly/Hummingbird flower garden are opening up and showing off some very pretty wild flowers.

 More Day Lilies are opening every day.

 This pretty pansy is a greenhouse rescue.  $1 for 2 4 cell packs

 The Morning Glory bush Convolvulus finally began to open..granted it doesn't look like a bush but they do look like really small Morning Glories just not on a vine.

 Echinacea in the Greenhouse is beginning to bloom.

My Gardinia that I have inside as a Bonsai, is blooming.

And my pride and joy of the garden is the Strawberry Spinach plant is growing something other than leaves.  It looks like soon I will get to see the Strawberries that grow.  I can't wait.  Supposed to be interesting looking.

Show off whats Thriving in your Garden today.  Leave a link so others can see.  Have a great weekend.