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Category Archives: GBFD
Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day: September 2016
Today is Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day when we are invited by Christina at Creating my own Garden of the Hesperides to share photos of the foliage in our gardens. A quick stroll through a thankfully wet garden (a small bit of rain … Continue reading
Garden Bloggers Foliage Day: May 2016
Today is Garden Bloggers Foliage Day, hosted by Christina at My Hesperides Garden. Rather than do a complete review of the foliage in my garden this month, I will offer only a few vignettes of areas in the garden dedicated to … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, GBFD
Tagged azalea, foliage, foliage plants, heuchera, hosta, Variegated liriope
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Double Feature
Today is a double whammy! It’s In a Vase on Monday and it’s Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day. Therefore I feel compelled to offer a double feature…foliage in a vase. (Roll the mouse over the photos below for their identification.) The … Continue reading
Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day: January 22, 2016
It is Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day! (And also Garden Bloggers’ Snow and Ice Day 😦 Today is the 22nd of January and time to join with Christina at My Hesperides Garden to share a few views of the foliage in our garden. … Continue reading
Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day: November 2015
Today is Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day, hosted by Christina at My Hesperides Garden. This gives me a chance to share some photos of the changing colors of the foliage in my garden. Donna at Garden Walk Garden Talk recently asked me where all … Continue reading
Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day: October 2015
Today is Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day, when Christina at My Hesperides Garden asks us to share views of foliage in our gardens. Her suggestion is a particularly good one at this time of year as my flowering plants are slowing … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, GBFD
Tagged 'Endless Summer' hydrangea, Carex trifida Rekohu Sunrise, Cleyera japonica, Cryptomeria japonica Yoshino, English boxwood, Euphorbia x martinii Ascot Rainbow, Ipomea patatas Sweet Caroline Bewitched, Ligustrum sinense Sunshine, Loropetalum chinense, My Hesperides Garden, Pittisporum 'Mojo', potato vine, Thuja Green Giant
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Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day: September 2015
Today is Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day, sponsored by Christina at My Hesperides Garden. The arrival of fall is accompanied by a number of subtle changes in the garden. Peonies are beginning to go dormant and the edges of their foliage is browning. That … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, GBFD
Tagged 'Endless Summer' hydrangea, Acer palmatum dissectum Ever Red, Ajuga reptans Mahogany, Autumn fern, Christina, crape myrtle, Euphorbia x martinii Ascot Rainbow, hellebore, Heucherella Sweet Tea, hosta, Ipomea patatas Sweet Caroline Bewitched, Ligustrum sinense Sunshine, liriope, My Gardn in the Hesperides, peony, Pittosporum tobira Mojo, sweet potato vine
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Garden Bloggers Foliage Day: 22 August 2015
Today is Garden Bloggers Foliage Day, sponsored by Christina at My Hesperides Garden. Rather than include a large group of individual foliage plants, many of which I have shown in earlier posts, I decided to focus on only one area. Perhaps one could … Continue reading
Double Header: Wordless Wednesday and Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day
Posted in Gardening, GBFD, Wordless Wednesday
Tagged Blushing Bride hydrangea, Catawba crape myrtle, Daylily Early Red, Gerbera daisy, Hibiscus Midnight Marvel, Homestead Purple verbena, hosta, hydrangea macrophylla, marigold, Phlox Flame Violet, pink garden phlox, pink Knockout Rose, Purple Magic Crape myrtle, snapdragon, Society garlic, spirea 'Anthony Waterer', White Swan coneflower
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