FOTD – March 15 – Lilies and Rose Today we went out. It was a beautiful day. Sunny, warm with a light breeze. Too bad it’s not going to last but it was great getting three nice days in a single… Read More ›
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Daylilies
FOTD – June 21 – Daylilies in mid-June They are failing to bloom in the front garden, but they are blooming everywhere else. I don’t understand that unless it’s an issue of needing fertilizer or some other earth issue that… Read More ›
COLUMBINE
FOTD – May 22 – COLUMBINE It must be spring because the Columbine is blooming. We don’t have the fancy columbine I’ve seen in other people’s pictures. Ours looks more like the wild version, though we planted it ourselves back… Read More ›
BEGINNING TO BLOOM
FOTD – April 29 – The Garden Outside First, I am here to announce to the world that we have a tulip! One tulip 🌷 Yellow. Right in the middle of the garden. It doesn’t look much like a garden… Read More ›
AND SO DIES THE GARDEN
FOTD – October 31 – Garden’s end I had hoped the mums would survive the rain, but they didn’t. The orange ones are blooming heavily right now, but it’s absolutely pouring outside and it’s cold. I suppose we feel the… Read More ›
BAD BODY, UGLY GARDEN
FOTD – September 15 — Garden Flowers Of all the horrible things my body has done to me during the past 15 or is it now 16? years, this week has been the pits. Not only did I have an… Read More ›
BACKYARD GARDEN AMIDST WEEDS
FOTD – STONECROP AND HYDRANGEAS – SEPT 7, 2021 Although there are a billion weeds, the hydrangea are blooming with enthusiasm as are the stonecrop. It’s hard to get pictures of them amidst all the green weeds. But, with the… Read More ›
BACK TO DAYLILIES
FOTD – September 5 – Daylilies Lacking much new material, flowers being a bit rare right now, I have many, many day lilies. With and without roses.
HEDGE ROSES
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 ›
FOTD: DAYLILY
FOTD – July 16 – Daylily The intense rain of the past month has had unexpected results on our gardens. Plants that usually bloom once are coming back and blooming a second time including the hydrangea. The Daylilies, normally moribund… 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 ›
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 