3 posts from May 2008

For some of you who were asking this is white violet :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The flower is the same as the wild ones, only white, and the leaf looks exactly the same.

 

Below are the various shades that the wild violets grow in my yard.  I have never seem a white one growing wild:

So as you can see, there is quite a range of color.

 

 

These pictures were taken in the last week of April.... 4/28 to be precise!

  I bring in several impatients at the end of the year so I can start new ones in the spring.  The grape hyacinthes are in the same area as the hyacinthe.  After the hyacinthes die down the grape ones come up.  They are entirely different species of plants.  The money plant is a bi-annual that reseeds itselft so it keeps moving a bit.  (See the fallen forsythia!)  When it goes to seed the pods look like coins, hence the name.  I love wild violets and I let them grow where I can.  They look very nice in the same area of the money plant.

As some of you know, I used to sell my crafts at various places on consignment.  It was not a large money making venture, just a way to pay for my supplies.  I stopped in at Sue's Fabric World, one of the shops I sold at, and saw a class advertisement and project on the wall and I knew I had to do it.  (As a matter of fact, selling stuff at Sue's Fabric World was strictly a losing proposition for me 'cause I almost never came home empty handed.) 

 

(and yes below the quilt there is the top of a kitty tea pot, most adorable I might add.)

 

I took another class a Sue's and produced this -