Fresh Picks-Koko Loko Floribunda Rose

This is my pick to try this year for a new rose variety. It's a Weeks rose, so I'll need to find a retail source, but I think it sounds really intriguing.

Koko Loko™

2012 Intro

(cv. WEKbijou) PPAF

Floribunda - Milk chocolate changing to lavender

So unusual…it looks good enough to eat…or maybe drink in this case. The cocoa is creamy like latte. But the latte goes loco to finish all lavender! You just can’t imagine a milky chocolate-colored bud would mature to be a solid soft lavender blossom. Early to bloom, every lovely bud spirals open with impeccable show form. The flowers last long on the plant & in the vase. Beyond its novelty, there lies a great plant….rounded, handsome & bushy…chock full of green leaves.

• Height / Habit: Medium / Rounded & bushy
• Bloom / Size: Medium, double, very well formed
• Petal count: 30 to 35
• Parentage: Blueberry Hill x Pot o’Gold
• Fragrance: Moderate
• Hybridizer:Bédard—2012
• Comments: Warm weather brings out the lavender.

Recent Sunset at the Farm

I recently went out on a January evening, IN MY SOCK feet to take a few quick shots of this sunset. The weather has been very mild, so no, I'm not crazy going out in the winter in my sock feet. :)

Get Me Through to the Green Side!

It's that time of year...you know. So dull, so grey, sooooooooooooo wintery. Well there's a few things I do to cope until I get to the Greener Part of the Year.....one of course is, I'm poring over every seed catalog I can get my hands on. And I'm looking forward to the Garden Show February 17-19 in Springfield, Missouri.

You can go to the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds here for information.

Even a graphic of a butterfly and a zinnia makes me feel better.....:)

Open Winter-View in the Pasture

We have had a really open winter so far....here is a view over in the field last week. A trio of Angus cows enjoying the afternoon. Have a great week, everyone. ~JB

Silver Dollar City Christmas

One of the top tourist destinations this time of year is Branson's own Silver Dollar City with their "An Old Time Christmas" Celebration. Like lights?  I think they have around two million. The tree lighting ceremony each night is not to be missed. You can see this amazing display until December 30, 2011.