The GGW contest for rose photos has announced the winners, and they are truly beautiful shots of a flower that is so beloved that there are millions of photographs taken of it, in all its glory and variation. Sample a few. No, I didn’t win anything… but I gained more than enough from the inspiration […]
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Roses in June
Thank you, whoever ordered A Year of Roses! It reminded me to take time soon to visit Whetstone Park of Roses, soon. Last year I went at a time when the heirloom roses were over and I would really like some pictures of them. I grow a few here, but I have them scattered about […]
Scenes from the Garden
More pictures :)Here are some of the things presently blooming in the garden at the end of May this year. I came back from Georgia and found the lupines and roses all abloom! I hadn’t grown Lupines since my city garden more than twenty some years ago, but put some in last year- they are […]
Imagination In the Garden
A garden is a place for imagination. Joanne, remember that huge forsythia bush in your Arcadia backyard when we were children? that was a favorite imagination place for me. And the old, ravine side, ruined grotto by Flora Holly’s house? I came across a video that made me think of the creation of such places […]
Rain, finally
We’ve had thunderstorming on and off for the last few hours. Thank You, God. Now I hope to do some of the planting and perennial dividing that needs to be done. I had gotten around to trimming and tieing up the ‘Wisteria Vine That Has Never Bloomed’. Not in more than the fifteen to seventeen […]
Plan to stroll in the garden on Sunday
photo by Aisling, August 31, 2008 The Quiet Country House has a lovely idea for blogging Sunday Strolls in the garden. It is on Sundays that I often visit public gardens, so I think it is the perfect opportunity to write about it. I regularly take a tour around my garden and property, but I […]
