A little update on what’s happenin’ around here. If I was Southern I might say h’yere :) It has been cool enough to work easily outside, and yet here I am on the computer…but I slip out, grab the kids, and work a bit on the yard. The grass has needed more than the usual […]
Plants
Flowering Trees For Spring
The GGW project had a number of entries for the Redbud tree. I had made one, but decided that there were more than enough competing pictures for it; but I thought you, my blog friends, would enjoy seeing the picture of my young tree from this spring and read the Redbud tree plant profile. I […]
GGW Blog Photo Contest, Flowering Tree
The deadline is midnight tonight… and I decided at the last minute to enter this entry for “Flowering Trees“. Just for fun, because I already picked the winners in my head, and I would not be among them. Two favs were one colorful closeup and one atmospheric longshot. I would choose emotionally, not being a […]
Old-Fashioned Nuisance Plants
magnolia, althea, yarrow and money-plant….i decided to take a walk around the old house today observing my world. i live in a typical old, sprawling, one-story southern farmhouse, with wide porches to the south and west. when i moved here, the landscaping told me someone once lived here who loved flowers and shrubbery. a hundred […]
Arrange the July garden around lilies
Every month has it’s supreme leading lady flower of the garden; June has the Rose, but July has the Lily. Especially now. Breeders have created the “Orienpets”, and they were the belle of several beds at the Inniswood Gardens Metro Park. I would love to have some in my garden next year. “Orania” was the […]
Shirley Poppies, Papaver rhoeas
These are flowers to illustrate fairy tales, and so easy that a child can grow them successfully. In fact, once you plant them, they may just grow on their own happily ever after. They are one of my favorite reseeding annuals. How These Poppies Look The petals of the Shirley poppy are described as tissue […]
