The theme of this week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is DELTA, in which we have been challenged to portray a scene that suggests transition and change.
The blossoms on a gladiola begin opening at the bottom of the flowering stem and continue in turn to the top. Buds at the top are yet to open as the ones at the bottom are fading. A blooming glad is truly in a state of transition.
Friday on a cloudy day is a good one to shoot a few photos of colorful items I noticed when I made a Walk in the Garden at the end of the month.
Let me invite you to look through this slideshow to see what is making me smile today.
Thanks to Helen at The Patient Gardener for hosting this meme.
The vase we are offering today marks a happy occasion in our lives. It was on our church altar this Sunday in celebration of our 59th wedding anniversary. My Arranger and I are delighted to share this vase with you.
The flowers are not from our garden, but they do bring us special joy.
Please visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden to see what she and others have brought in from the gardens this week.
After a very welcome rainy week, I took a casual Walk in the Garden on this sunny Saturday morning. The new blooms of several plants create a new picture. Let me share views of three of the borders in our back garden.
The theme of this week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is TRANSIENT.
I have usually understood the word to mean something or someone moving from one place or condition to another. What could be a better example than the water from the rains or springs, gathering in the hills above, then moving slowly or swiftly down a North Carolina mountain stream.
I look forward to June each year as a time when my chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castus) comes into bloom. My unidentified heirloom variety is approaching full bloom.
It seems to be a promising choice for In a Vase on Monday. The blue vase is one we purchased in Japan all those many years ago and has stayed with us over five moves.
Last winter I pruned the vitex heavily and it has responded with vigorous new growth. It promises to be a banner year. One of the wonderful attributes of this plant is that it responds so well to deadheading. If I can get up high enough (my Arranger has strict rules to keep me low on the ladder) to remove the spent flowers, it will rebloom completely. That is a winner; it came from a second generation cutting from my aunt and was originally in my grandmother’s garden.
The bees love it as much as I do.
Please visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden to see what she and others have put in their vases this week.
Today I am pleased to be able to share three plants which have just recently come into bloom in my garden. Each of them is contributing a new color to enjoy.
Gladioli are not supposed to be hardy enough to overwinter here in my part of North Carolina, and yet this one has survived two winters in the ground, has multiplied, and now looks very healthy.
Several years ago I visited a daylily garden in Northern Virginia and remarked to the owner how much I liked a particular specimen. She immediately got a shovel, dug it up, and gave me ‘Obsidian.’ Great gardeners are like that; they love to share.
I am still in the hunt for a dark lavender garden phlox. ‘Flame Lilac’ is a short phlox just coming into bloom now. It’s not quite as dark as I would like, but it is a beauty. I will keep hunting.
Just a week short of summer and there are sweet flowers opening now. It is fun to take a Friday walk in the garden and see what is new.
