Plants for the Garden

I've been blogging for about a year, and sometimes feel that I overload the entries at my current blog because I have SO many interests.  I don't know what direction this one will take, if any.  I tried to do a 'weather' blog and soon realized I wasn't interested.  But I'm picturing this to be more oriented toward the business, gardening and rabbits, with some overlap, I'm sure.  I don't know if I will keep up TWO blogs, although I see that many people keep up several.  It's a disease, this blog addiction!

The plants pictured above came from Middleton Place, a plantation that we visited recently when we were in Charleston, South Carolina.  We're working on putting up an antique shop on the property here, and my sister-in-law is working on a craft shop, along with other projects.  We're envisioning gardens around the buildings and trails from shop to shop, so my SO and I picked up these, with the idea that we might have a little "historical" garden with plants and seeds from beautiful houses to grace our little cottage home. 

Storybook Dreams Alm Uncle

This lovely fellow is one of my younger bucks at seven months.  His wool was thick and luxurious, but unfortunately he decided to spray himself all over the back end just before I clipped him.  He also had a little bit of a messy vent area.  We've had some weird weather, too warm for January, and yesterday was cold.  This probably triggered the messy butt.  Not his fault, but the stained stuff was cut away and discarded and doesn't count toward his wool yield.  I only count perfect wool over 2.5 inches long as prime, mostly from the back and sides.  If the texture is right I might include wool from other areas.  Shorter wool is put aside as seconds, good for felting and blending with other fibers for spinning.  But even with the messy stuff, this little fellow had 7.5 ounces of lovely prime wool, plus 2 ounces of 2nd wool that wasn't stained or matted.  Not bad for a youngster.

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Posted by farmgirl929

hey, now here's a familiar face! ;)

Thank you so much for the NAIS info. I feel so silly for missing that section in all the time I spent at that stinkin' site.

;)

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