Last Day of April

“We” worked in our flower bed this weekend, guess that got this writer in the mood. Saturday was a beautiful day, so I “staked out” 2 of my dogs and got all the dead weeds and grass pulled out and new bark bedding put in. It is not one of my “top loves” but it is for a lot of people. Maybe it’s too late to begin planting a flower garden or any kind of garden for that matter (you can see how much I know about gardening) but here are some websites I found that might be helpful or enjoyable. “Forward, Hoe!” (Yeah, that was an intended pun! Sorry friend. Well, no not really.)

Kids Page: “Sow what? Plant a flower or vegetable garden”

Flower Garden design – list of links. It co-incidentally lists a Kansas City website, work "home" of this writer.

Play house for children made from live plants:
Sunflowers, Sweet pea and other climbers are planted to form the walls of your play house – leave a doorway-space. Poles and strings can train the climbers so that you even have a roof over the top. You can make this as simple or as elaborate as you wish. A friend did this years ago. You could probably find plans on line, although we didn't look for any. (Additional note: found this on another website. Look for "Living Playhouse". Here is a different idea for a living playhouse. Ah-ha, I found another site when searching for 'sunflower houses'. This one actually gives you plans. Earlier I found a similar sight that mentioned adding morning glories. O.k. this site is probably the best given as far as instructions are concerned, but she still didn't mention adding the morning glories I found elsewhere.)

Flower Garden help with tools, plans, seeds, plants appropriate for you area and more.

Don’t forget Amazon.com for any book on garden you can imagine.

Here are some other options:
Raised beds here,
Container gardens here; and here;
one more from Better Homes and Gardens website;
Water garden here and here, (a “How-to” );
and vegetable garden options.

This gives Cooperative Extension Service links for every US state.

If you ever watched “Ground Force” on TV, (Miss) Charlie Dimmick has several books on water features. Alan Titchmarsh has also published books on gardening. There were over 200 hits on Amazon.com but I am not sure they are all by the same “Alan Titchmarsh.” Tommy Walsh has published about 16 books it looks like. Check out “Ground Force” with any of the above named authors in google and there should be links to Amazon. Or go directly to Amazon and look. I couldn’t pull up anything with just author’s names, but I didn’t play around with it to find books by them.