FOTD – July 24 – HEDGE ROSES The roses bloomed bigtime this year despite the rain. But if we’d had just a little bit of sunshine in June or July, it would have been much better. These are the roses from… Read More ›
Cee’s Flower of the Day
MINIATURE ORCHIDS
FOTD – July 19 – Mini-Orchids All the big orchids have gone to sleep, so I don’t think I’ll be seeing them until next spring. But my new miniature orchids are blooming and they are very pretty. I took a dozen… Read More ›
MINIATURE ORCHIDS
FOTD – July 12 – Miniature Orchids My son bought me these little tiny orchids. They came in a pot with a couple of succulents and it’s really pretty. I couldn’t get any decent shots of it today because it… Read More ›
SPIDERWORT
FOTD – July 7 – SPIDERWORT If you wanted to know why they call it spiderwort, you can see how these groups of flowers look like spiders.
DAYLILY
FOTD – July 5 – Daylily It’s that time of year again. The Daylilies are everywhere. A bit late. Usually they show up in the middle of June and are winding down by now, but this year, they are blooming like… Read More ›
COLD AND RAIN
FOTD – July 3 – Wet Leaves Yesterday it was 100 degrees. Today it’s 60 degrees and it has been raining for almost 24 hours. We need the rain and I’m grateful for the cold. I think despite the pain in… Read More ›
THE GARDEN GROWS – BUT IT’S SO HOT!
FOTD – June 30 – DAY LILIES & ROSES The garden grows. It has been so hot it’s hard to believe the flowers aren’t fried, but we’ve been getting a little bit of rain. I guess that keeps things growing. It’s… Read More ›
RETURN OF THE DAYLILIES
FOTD – June 21 – Summer Garden I always look forward to this time of year. It’s when the daylilies and roses bloom. Somehow, the daylilies have managed to bloom despite the invasion of Bittersweet, an Asian climber that has gone… Read More ›
BLOSSOMING CATALPA
FOTD – June 18 – Blossoming Catalpa Trees We have one big Catalpa left. The other two blew down during storms. There are a bunch of babies along the driveway and probably some babies along the edge of the woods,… Read More ›
THE UGLY GARDEN
FOTD – June 18 – The Ugly Garden Terrible things happened to our front garden this year. It has always been messy but this year, it has gone beyond messy into downright ugly. Binding, strangling vines are everywhere and things are… Read More ›
RHODODENDRONS OUT OF SEASON
FOTD – June 15 – RHODODENDRONS I keep opening cameras and taking out cards, discovering hundreds of pictures I’ve forgotten to download. Today I downloaded almost three hundred pictures from early June that I forgot I’d taken with a bunch from… Read More ›
ORCHIDS AT THEIR PEAK
FOTD – June 12 – Orchids My red orchids are beginning to die off, one by one, but the yellow ones are still perfect. I took some pictures. I can’t imagine a more lovely set of orchids.
