Gardening, anyone?
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Finally getting around to uploading gardening pictures, now that my corner of Michigan's moved on to roses and basil.
This was not intentional. But I'm keeping them.
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peonies with iris and bishops weed, azaleas in background0 -
Ft. McNair Chestnut - similar to a red buckeye0 -
trying to keep the critters out of the vegetable garden0 -
Queenmomcat, Your early spring bulbs are gorgeous; great inspiration to think positively about spring 2017! My screen is really small; is that a yellow rose covered in blooms? Whatever it is, it is definitely a keeper!
Flaviarose, Now THAT'S a border - people traveling along that road must stop and take pictures... I surely would. In my very first post, I mentioned how much I love peonies but couldn't grow them down here, so your picture made me smile. Is that white flower in your border Queen Anne's Lace, and is one of the azaleas (yellow one) a native plant? Your other two pictures would be great paintings - love your stylish scarecrow!
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AngelaO: no, the second photograph (of mine) is a little clump of violas that popped up in the middle of my front lawn. (there's another clump of purple ones nearby. The friend who mows my lawn (long story) has been very carefully mowing and clipping around them. I do have one yellow rose, but that's a photobomb for another day.
Flavia: i wish I could get irises that enthusiastic!
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HA ha ha ha ha. The white flower in the border is bishop's weed. I'll have to take more pictures of it. It can be a nice ground cover - I have tons and tons of it... it is just so invasive and hard to control. The azalea came from a nursery, probably not native to Massachusetts.
My road is a dead end that ends at my house... so no passersby to enjoy the garden :-(
I do mostly grow for my own enjoyment, but love to show it off to others.
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Hi ladies- been lurking and not posting due to being very busy with work. That being said, I take the chance to snap blooms in my garden all the time. The cacti have been doing their thing since late May. Here you go! Oleander thrown in for fun!
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Flaviarose your garden is beautiful and Jazzy
no cacti blooms here, but yours are very pretty. We transplanted our honeysuckle a few years ago and this is the first year that it is back in full bloom. Hopefully the hummingbirds will come back.
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Love the cactus and honeysuckle.
At the top of the picture there is a red honeysuckle. Not particularly fragrant, very vigorous. This year I added a white honeysuckle that is supposed to be very fragrant - it is still small.0 -
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Flaviarose- that's it, I am moving in. Just gorgeous!
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Love to see all the photos. So many cacti blooms. What a treat for those f us up north.
Looking forward I love honeysuckle. When I lived in SC the fragrance from the wild honeysuckle was just overwhelming. That is looking very vigorous.
Flaviarose always beautiful. I think we'd all love to move in with you.
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Flaviarose,
I'm right there with Jazzygirl and TwoHobbies; ready to move in with you - but I'll just sleep outside in your heavenly garden. I always have questions, and this time I'm intrigued by the two garden statuary pieces just peeking out from behind the honeysuckle. Are they both sheep, and (probably) antique pieces?? I love garden statuary and may one day get the nerve to take pictures of my yard to show. However, I need to get out there and have a pep talk with my plants. It might involve the threat of bulldozing...
Jazzygirl,
I've been sharing all of your pictures with my husband. They are incredible. I've never traveled much, but New Mexico is on our list of places to go!
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The sheep were a christmas gift from my mother-in-law last year. I've seen them in catalogues....
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It is 100 degrees here and I am starting to loose some of the plants in my pots to the heat. The geraniums are blooming like mad, they love the summer heat. It is going to be 100 for the next 8 days and will wait to replant anything I loose once the summer monsoon rains come in July.
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Wonderful photos ladies.. I've been enjoying them all :-)
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My back yard, with basil in the left bed, and chard in the right. Still not managing to get a decent closeup of the roses: there are five in this shot, but the paler colors don't photograph well against our pale garage.
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Gardening Gals - I am LOVING all the pics! I am so envious of all of you in cooler climates. All my spring flowers have come and gone: peonies, gladiolas, violets, and agapanthus.
I still have blooms on the hydrangeas, trumpet vine, coreopsis, daylilies (although I am ready to dig them up), cuphea (Mexican Heather). roses, salvia, gazanias, lavender, clematis, and dianthus.
They're predicting 109 this week, so I found a way to protect my front-porch hydrangeas from the blistering sun: an umbrella!
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Blessings2011: thank you for the picture! I laughed, but in a nice way, at the lucky hydrangeas with their own umbrella. Lovely porch too, though I expect it's a bit hot just now. As for climate....at least you don't have to deal with winter. And snow.
Did I mention snow?
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Love the pictures, everyone! After reading what some of you are dealing with in temps, I'm not about to complain. Yesterday was great in Mobile - with a nice breeze and lower humidity, so I spent the whole day outside happily doing yard work. I just wonder what happened to spring! I kept waiting for the hydrangeas, etc to reach their peak, usually about this time. However, the blooms seem to already be fading after only a couple of weeks, and the whole yard already looks the way it does in August. I'm sending one picture that doesn't show the sad blooms. At least the leaves are still green...
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What a beautiful gazebo, Angela. Blessings great idea with the umbrella and it looks charming.
I think its pretty much hot all over the country excep the pacific northwest. I saw a lot of red on the weather map. It's keeping me busy watering all those containers I planted, but so far I'm keeping up.
I saw my first hummingbird today. I went to go get out my feeder and get some "juice" ready for them. Darn, can't find the feeder. Still looking...
I gave in and had landscapers come. They took out some bushes, trimed our hedge, weeded and mulched all our beds. It was worth it. My summer project will be one shady bed in the back yard which I haven't been able to work on. Three of them were here for six hours. It would take me all summer to get that much done.
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queenmomcat - that's o.k., I was laughing too. I bought the umbrella when the neighbor in back of us cut down all the 100 foot redwoods... and my Encore Azaleas were suddenly in the broiling sun. But then I had the gardener move those pots to directly under MY tall redwood, and that seemed to solve the problem. Snow? Send me some! PLEASE!!! The entire front porch is a gazebo attached to the house. When we had the house built, we shored up the ceiling so it would hold an outdoor ceiling fan. But these days it would be like sitting in front of a hair dryer set on high.
AngelaO - that's your yard? I thought it was a park! Beautiful!
Thanks, TwoHobbies... charming and whimsical... the look I was going for.....
In the back yard.... cool kitty by the waterfall....
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Snow, as per your request. (The two vehicles out on the road are snow removal equipment--a front-end loader and a pickup with a plow blade. I live on a dinky little dead end street, so they can't just bring through one of the giant orange industrial plows.)
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Trumpet vines blooming at my client site
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Those are so pretty. Someone in the neighborhood has them spilling over a cedar fence.
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We may actually get some peaches this year. They are very small but packs a sweet juicy nibble
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Oh, queenmomcat.... I know the snow causes awful hassles for folks.... but here in parched California, I see those big piles of snow and think how much we could use that water....
Jazzygirl - I love my trumpet vine - I just wish it wasn't full of ants.
Wren44 - Mine grow on a redwood trellis attached to a cedar fence. They spread rapidly. The other day, I peeked through the open gate to our next door neighbor's yard. The vine was twice as big on their side! They're leaving it alone... it provides greenery and color and they don't have to take care of it.
WenchLori - Nuthin' like a home-grown peach! Sweet, juicy, nothing like those golf balls they sell in the stores.
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I agree Blessings! I wish my trumpet vine would wake up. I cut it back 2 years ago as it was blocking the view of the lake when we'd sit in our rocking chairs. Now it's getting pissy with me.
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Blessings your porch looks very inviting, the heat must be very hard on your garden. The last few summers have been hot and dry here,
, but we are back to normal temps mid 70's and rainy.
Angela lovely yard and gazebo.
Goats beard , one of my favourites. The bees love it.
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