FOTD – Cee’s Flower of the Day This Easter Lily has a (literal) back story. Waking up this morning in the middle of a snowstorm was (I admit) a bit jarring. Not that I trust the weather anyway, but my… Read More ›
Cee’s Flower of the Day
FOTD – DAFFODILS IN BRIGHT SUNSHINE
FOTD – April 11 – DAFFODILS The has been so bright for the past couple of days, it has been hard to take pictures of these bright flowers. Even using a slower lens, they outshone the sun. These have to… Read More ›
FOTD – SPRING BY THE BLACKSTONE
FOTD – April 9 –Spring comes to the valley It was a beautiful day. I opened the window early in the morning and you could feel that it would be warm. It wasn’t warm yet. We are still getting frost… Read More ›
FOTD – A MEDIUM MACRO ORCHID
FOTD – March 20 – Orchid If I hadn’t been switched to the unexciting yet really annoying “block” format, I’d post more photos, but it has become such a hassle, we’ll make do with one picture — an orchid. It… Read More ›
FOTD – LITTLE HOYA IN THE SUN
FOTD – March 13 – One Hoya in the sun by the window I’ve been growing this little plant for a couple of years. It is lovely. It is also too heavy for the pot it’s in, but it has… Read More ›
SOLOMON’S SEAL – AN EARLY SPRING FLOWER
FOTD – February 21 –SOLOMON’S SEAL Solomon’s Seal was a wildflower, but I love it and I took bunches of it from the woods and planted them along the other side of my driveway. They still grow wild, but I… Read More ›
FOTD – WILDFLOWERS
FOTD – March 1 – Wildflowers One of the really nice parts of living rurally are the wildflowers. As long as you don’t need nice neat rows, wildflowers are as decorative as any cultivar. And many of them are a… Read More ›
FROM PRIMROSE TO LITTLE BLUE FLOWERS
FOTD – Feb 28 – Those Little Blue Flowers I’ve had these flowers growing in my garden since we moved here and I never knew what they were. A few years ago, someone said “Oh, those are primroses!” Well, a… Read More ›
CHRYSANTHEMUMS
FOTD – February 18 – Mums I love mums. They are the flower that you plant in August and will bloom right through Thanksgiving — if you are a bit lucky with the weather. These are all mums I got in… Read More ›
CEE’S CFFC: LOVING REEDS AS FLOWERS
CFFC: Reed, Read or Red Everywhere along the rivers in this valley reed and weeds wave in gentle and more powerful winds. I love the weeds and reeds. Some people plant various kinds of reeds as part of their garden, but… Read More ›
COLUMBINE
FOTD – January 28 – Columbine When we first moved here, we planted a couple of columbine. Unlike most of our flowers, these have multiplied and fill the garden in May. All of ours are “hot pink” or something close… Read More ›
FOTD – TULIPS OF MANY COLORS
FOTD – February 9 – TWO LIPS I have tulips. I used to grow tulips. I think the skunks ate the bulbs because one year, they stopped coming up and we do have a lot of animals that like eating… Read More ›
