Leela's Garden & Kitchen

There has been a lot happening since I last posted. I celebrated my 60th birthday and received lots of flowers, plants, and trees from my family and friends. We have been busy planting all the plants and trees in the garden.  There is a robin that made a nest in our gazebo. Shilpa climbed up to take a photo of the eggs and we have been seeing the robin sitting on them. We are excited for baby birds.  I have had lots of visitors. Sushma and Shilpa's friends brought their babies and I really enjoyed seeing them. Shilpa's friend Lavina and her husband Luke drove from Pontotoc, MS so that I could meet their baby and I could not believe they did that for me. Most recently, my siblings came along with some of my nieces and nephews. On the day this photo was taken we all wore two braids, even my mom, which made me laugh.  This past Sunday, Sushma and Shilpa's mentors came to our house for a small PhD graduation ceremony because it was too difficult for me to attend their graduatio

We meant to post earlier but have been busy enjoying all the beautiful blooms in our garden. Today the weather was so great, we spent almost 4 hours gardening! We did some weeding, brought all of the plants back outside from their winter hiding places, and planted some blueberry bushes. We had blueberry bushes before but Suresh got rid of them during the garden remodeling. We didn't even plan to get the blueberry bushes but got excited when we saw them at Lowe's. We accidentally bought a variety called Pink Lemonade Blueberries, so we'll see how they turn out!  Hopefully, we get some yummy blueberries from our garden!   Our new blueberry bushes  Our bushes planted in their new homes We are loving all the flowers in our garden and around town. My favorite that is blooming now is our pink dogwood tree. So beautiful! We also have white dogwood, yellow irises, and the daffodils are still blooming. Our apple tree is blooming, but apparently you have to have at least 2 apple tree