﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--RSS Genrated: Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:28:42 GMT--><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:ev="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/event/"><channel><title>Sommer Gardens - Random thoughts</title><link>https://sommergardens.com:443/Garden-Blog/rss/category/779/random-thoughts</link><atom:link href="https://sommergardens.com:443/Garden-Blog/rss/category/779/random-thoughts" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><description>RSS document</description><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sommer Gardens]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Mission Accomplished 2 ......well almost.]]></title><link>https://sommergardens.com/Garden-Blog/mission-accomplished-2-well-almost</link><description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I started my second greenhouse project for  Sommer Gardens , a new hoop house.  This project followed the completion of a large  shade house  friends and I constructed during the ...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:01:39 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://sommergardens.com/Garden-Blog/mission-accomplished-2-well-almost</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[1b496b6c-6b62-4310-89b0-3634e9d4b7d3-1659]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sommer Gardens]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Christmas presents for my brugmansia]]></title><link>https://sommergardens.com/Garden-Blog/christmas-presents-for-my-brugmansia</link><description><![CDATA[My Angel Trumpets will have a nice surprise soon when they are covered with a new shadehouse I'm building with the help of friends  during the Christmas Holidays.  When completed there will be just ...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:14:25 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://sommergardens.com/Garden-Blog/christmas-presents-for-my-brugmansia</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[1b496b6c-6b62-4310-89b0-3634e9d4b7d3-1678]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sommer Gardens]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Pick up sticks...]]></title><link>https://sommergardens.com/Garden-Blog/pick-up-sticks</link><description><![CDATA[Seeing how I'm sort of playing catch-up here I thought I would share a few photos from the post-freeze clean-up.  To recap, the winter of 2009 was said to be the worst ever here in Central Florida.  ...]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 13:38:08 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://sommergardens.com/Garden-Blog/pick-up-sticks</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[1b496b6c-6b62-4310-89b0-3634e9d4b7d3-1917]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sommer Gardens]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[I'm back!!!]]></title><link>https://sommergardens.com/Garden-Blog/im-back</link><description><![CDATA[No I didn't give up blogging, I just had to focus my energy on a couple of other web projects this spring.  While both are still a work in progress, I now have time to get back up to speed with ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 05:24:17 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://sommergardens.com/Garden-Blog/im-back</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[1b496b6c-6b62-4310-89b0-3634e9d4b7d3-1920]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sommer Gardens]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[The Blue Jay of Happiness?]]></title><link>https://sommergardens.com/Garden-Blog/the-blue-jay-of-happiness</link><description><![CDATA[While everyone knows of the Blue Bird of happiness, well I've encountered the Blue Jay of happiness.  This cutie has been hanging out in a group of my older brugmansia seedlings for a couple of weeks ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:12:59 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://sommergardens.com/Garden-Blog/the-blue-jay-of-happiness</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[1b496b6c-6b62-4310-89b0-3634e9d4b7d3-1964]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sommer Gardens]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Up, up and away!]]></title><link>https://sommergardens.com/Garden-Blog/up-up-and-away-1</link><description><![CDATA[While I was home for lunch today I managed to capture a photo of the space shuttle launch.  Here it is taking off over the horizon.   Even though I'm smack dab in the center of the state, shuttle ...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:09:42 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://sommergardens.com/Garden-Blog/up-up-and-away-1</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[1b496b6c-6b62-4310-89b0-3634e9d4b7d3-2019]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sommer Gardens]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[A warm Florida Welcome to my new readers!]]></title><link>https://sommergardens.com/Garden-Blog/a-warm-florida-welcome-to-my-new-readers</link><description><![CDATA[I would like to welcome my new blog readers that came over from Blotanical.com.  Thanks for the nice comments.  Please visit often to see what surprises my hybridizing efforts  produce.  I had a ...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:51:54 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://sommergardens.com/Garden-Blog/a-warm-florida-welcome-to-my-new-readers</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[1b496b6c-6b62-4310-89b0-3634e9d4b7d3-2075]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sommer Gardens]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[An Angel Trumpet Pot of Gold]]></title><link>https://sommergardens.com/Garden-Blog/an-angel-trumpet-pot-of-gold</link><description><![CDATA[ Just before dusk tonight I spotted this rainbow illuminating the sunset lit sky.   The real pot of gold at the end of this rainbow is the cool weather that is moving in on Saturday.           ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:56:32 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://sommergardens.com/Garden-Blog/an-angel-trumpet-pot-of-gold</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[1b496b6c-6b62-4310-89b0-3634e9d4b7d3-2086]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sommer Gardens]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Mother Nature's Revenge!]]></title><link>https://sommergardens.com/Garden-Blog/mother-natures-revenge</link><description><![CDATA[After several year's of relatively mild winters, the dark side of mother surfaced again this month.  In January we had a hard freeze that brought temperatures down to the mid 20's for a couple of ...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:02:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://sommergardens.com/Garden-Blog/mother-natures-revenge</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[1b496b6c-6b62-4310-89b0-3634e9d4b7d3-2187]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sommer Gardens]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[What a busy year!]]></title><link>https://sommergardens.com/Garden-Blog/what-a-busy-year</link><description><![CDATA[There's a reason why my garden blog has become stagnant, it's called too much nice weather!  When the weather's nice outside, I spend all my free time working on my plants. Then when I'm done I'm too ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:06:54 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://sommergardens.com/Garden-Blog/what-a-busy-year</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[1b496b6c-6b62-4310-89b0-3634e9d4b7d3-2188]]></dc:identifier></item></channel></rss>