Spring Time Is Finally Here

I love the springtime, its been months, and its finally here! Many of us (definitely not the skiers and snowboarders) are hibernating and refraining from doing any yard and outdoor activities all winter long. For some reason, the gloomy cloudy days of autumn and winter seasons seem to naturally keep most of us from enjoying our yard and having the desire to hang out outside. During the cold days, we prefer to stay indoor and enjoy the nice warm air in our fireplace or central air instead. Spring season offers bright promises, it is a perfect time to start enjoying the outdoors again, clear up the deck and set up the outdoor patio set. Spring time is also the best time to expect colorful surprises in your garden. Many flowers blooms in the spring and most plants get out of hibernation mood and grow leaves again. So out with the coats and boots and in with light shirts, shorts, and flip flops once again.

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Gardening And Decorative Planters

If I have to mention one of the things that I truly enjoy doing, it is being outside in our garden! Me and my hubby are avid gardeners, we enjoy growing different variety of flowers, fruit trees, vegetables, and all types of other plants. It is amazing to witness a simple seed turn into a tall plant and can produce beautiful flowers or delicious fruits.

Aside from our ground garden, we also plant several different variety of flowers in garden planters and put them in the deck or staircase to add touch and curb appeal to our outdoor space. One of best thing i like about using decorative planter is that it serves as its own decor when the plants sleep during the winter time.

I usually choose planters that works really well with our existing home exterior like the color of the paint and other existing accessories.

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Mantis In Our Front Yard

My hubby called me the other day to grab my camera quickly because he wanted me to take a picture of something in the front yard. I grabbed the camera and hurried back to the front of the house, where my hubby was. He then pointed me the praying Mantis in our siding. So I set the camera to macro mode and started taking some photos of the mantis. Honestly, I never seen a praying Mantis until the other day, so to me it was very interesting to witness such a creature. It was a little bit scary because the mantis didnt make a single move, it just stared back at me and I have no idea how safe or dangerous a mantis is, so I was a little guarded but I still managed to take a close up pictures of the insect despite uncertainties and unkown mantis behaviour. It was definitely an interesting experience of the day!

If I have the chance, I will post some photos of the mantis here!

Written by JazeVox of www.HonestlyFresh.com
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Hidden Behind The Blooming Flowers

We recently check out a beautiful botanical garden with amazing collections of colorful plants and flowers. But only after few minutes of being there, we realized that there were several mosquitoes all over the beautiful area.

Most mosquitoes frequent in dumped and wet places, and since most garden are watered and can collect standing water in some parts of the plants and yard, it is common for mosquitoes to hang out in many garden areas. It is therefore necessary for us to protect ourselves from being bitten by mosquitoes because some mosquitoes may be infected and they can be carrier of diseases like west nile virus that they got from birds that mosquitoes can possibly transmit to humans.

So if you plan to stay outdoors to enjoy your flower garden or simply want to have a relaxing nap in your outdoor hammack, applying mosquitoes repellant will definitely make you less attractive to mosquitoes and better chances of keeping mosquitoes off you.

To all my fellow bloggers, sorry for my days absence here at blogosphere, I had to do some running around and also went out a little bit and enjoy the sunny outdoors, now that winter is over. I will be reviewing the messages in the tagboard as well, starting messages way back last April.

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