Mistress Mary, Quite Contrary, How Does Your Garden Grow?

Just the other day Ken and I were talking about this year's garden. We don't have much space and there are always more things that we want to plant than we actually have room for. There is also the problem of my complete lack of gardening abilities. I kill cacti!!

However, this year is different. This year I have been offered the opportunity to grow some never-before-seen plants. Working with a {fictional} team of master gardeners I have been given the task of creating three new {imaginary} plants or flowers to grow in my garden.

I've spent lots of time thinking and planning. If I could grow anything in the world, what would it be?? Money seems like the obvious answer here, but I'm going to skip that and keep thinking.

The first plant I will be growing is the Salad Plant.  We love vegetables at our house. Especially freshly grown ones. And we love to eat salads, but they are a bit of a pain to create. I like a good hearty salad with lots of different ingredients, but washing, peeling, cutting, and slicing all the different produce options takes up too much time before dinner and too much space in my fridge.

At first glance, the Salad Plant looks like a head of lettuce, but when it is ripe, it opens to reveal a variety of other veggies, already prepped and distributed throughout. All you need to do is carefully pluck the ripe offering from the ground and transfer it to a bowl for serving. You'll need to provide your own dressing and croutons. Magic can't do everything for you!

"Artist's" poorly done rendition

I will also be growing a Smoothie Tree in my back yard. Smoothies are good for you and fun to drink. Everybody loves smoothies, right? Except I never have the right fruit on hand to make my own. And it always seems that the fruit I want is not the fruit I have in my kitchen. Isn't that always the way!?!

Y'all are jealous of my clip art skills, I can tell!

The smoothie tree grows all different kinds on fruit! Even fruits you don't usually find on a tree. Because...magic! The only fruits the smoothie tree doesn't grow are tomatoes, because everyone knows those belong in the Salad Plant. Duh! 

For the record: Ketchup is not a smoothie

Also please note that this is a Smoothie Tree; not a Milkshake Tree. I have enough boys in my yard already!

Lastly, we are developing the Perpetual Flower. Everyone loves to look at flowers, right? They brighten your day! You see them pop up in the spring time and they lift your spirits. Unfortunately, they only bloom for a short time before they are gone. Until now! Perpetual Flowers will last all year! Each morning they open their petals with a new color pattern, different from the day before. They can withstand the heat of summer as well as the ice and cold of winter. They even grown taller to poke out above all that disgusting snow we get in the wintertime!

I'm all out of funny captions, sorry.

Who wants to come prep the ground for my new garden??  

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Welcome to a Secret Subject Swap. This week, 16 brave bloggers picked a secret subject for someone else and were assigned a secret subject to interpret in their own style. Today we are all simultaneously divulging our topics and submitting our posts. 

Here are links to all the sites now featuring Secret Subject Swap posts.  Sit back, grab a cup, and check them all out. See you there:

Baking In A Tornado

The Bergham’s Life Chronicles

Spatulas on Parade

Dinosaur Superhero Mommy

The Momisodes

Stacy Sews and Schools

Sparkly Poetic Weirdo

Disneyland in Kentucky

Southern Belle Charm

The Lieber Family

Someone Else’s Genius

Confessions of a part-time working mom

Climaxed

BatteredHope 

SmallTalk Mama

Searching for Sanity                            

My subject is "You've been blessed with a magical green thumb. You are able to create three new plants/flowers. They'll be naturally occurring and resilient (able to grow in any climate). What do your three plants/flowers look like, and what magical ability do they possess?"  It was submitted by The Bergham’s Life Chronicles.