Tag Archives: mandevilla

A Friday Walk in the Garden: End of Month View: June 2017

Posted on June 30, 2017 by johnvic8

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in End of the Month View, Gardening, Photo Challenge | Tagged Blushing Bride hydrangea, Coreopsis Creme Brulee, Daylily Daquiri, Ligustrum Sunshine, Little Lime hydrangea, mandevilla, Phlox Flame Violet, Phlox paniculata David, pink garden phlox, Purple Magic Crape myrtle, Vitex Shoal Creek, White Swan coneflower | 12 Comments

In a Vase on Monday: Heirlooms, old and new

Posted on September 5, 2016 by johnvic8

We are just back from seeing my first granddaughter get married. It was special being with family and seeing the absolutely most beautiful bride of all (at least since my Arranger walked down the aisle). I returned to find my … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardening, In a Vase on Monday | Tagged chaste tree, mandevilla, Mason jar, Vitex agnus-castus | 26 Comments

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day: November 2015

Posted on November 15, 2015 by johnvic8

Today is Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens. I woke up this morning and found a thin sheet of ice on the birdbath. Welcome to fall in my North Carolina garden. The frost was not severe … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardening, GBBD | Tagged 'Endless Summer' hydrangea, 'Sunny Disposition', Camellia 'Our Linda', Carol, Carolina jessamin, Clarence, Clematis Comptesse de Bouchard, Daisy Freak, Encore azalea, geranium, Immortality, iris, mandevilla, May Dreams Garden, pink Muhly Grass, Purple pansy, reblooming iris | 21 Comments

Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day: October 2015

Posted on October 15, 2015 by johnvic8

Today is Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for October, with thanks to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for creating this meme. The crape myrtles are finished, but there are buds galore on the camellias, which should be plentiful for next month’s offering. There is … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardening, GBBD | Tagged bearded iris Sunny Disposition, calibrachoa, Carol, Clematis Comptesse de Bouchard, clematis General Sikorski, Encore azalea 'Autumn Twist', French marigold, geranium, Graffiti Violet penta, Hibiscus, hydrangea, Kordessa Dahlia, Leucanthemum Freak, mandevilla, May Dreams Gardens, Muhlenbergia capillaris, pink Knockout Rose, pink Muhly Grass, Radicans gardenia | 13 Comments

Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day: 15 August 2015

Posted on August 15, 2015 by johnvic8

Today is Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, sponsored by Carol at May Dreams Garden. Here in the dog days of Autumn the blooms in my garden are somewhat sparse. Nonetheless, I accept Carol’s invitation to show what is giving us a … Continue reading →

Posted in GBBD | Tagged Blushing Bride hydrangea, Carol, Catawba crape myrtle, crape myrtle, dwarf crape myrtle, garden phlox, hosta, liriope muscarii variegata, mandevilla, marigold, May Dreams Gardens, Radicans gardenia, White Swan coneflower | 12 Comments

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day: June 15, 2015

Posted on June 15, 2015 by johnvic8

Today is Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, sponsored by Carol at May Dreams Gardens. The garden is in a period of transition, so there are not large numbers of plants in bloom. We are being challenged to respond to the extremely hot weather … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardening, GBBD | Tagged 'Endless Summer' hydrangea, Astilbe Maggie Daley, Blushing Bride hydrangea, clematis General Sikorski, gardenia jasminoides, Hosta Elegans, hydrangea, lantana, lantana Bandana rose, lantana Samantha, mandevilla, marigold, mecardonia, Montauk daisy, Shoal Creek chaste tree, Twist and Shout, Vitex agnus-castus | 17 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Forces of Nature

Posted on May 12, 2015 by johnvic8

The theme of this week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is FORCES OF NATURE. One tends to associate “forces of nature” with such mighty cataclysmic events as torrential rains, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, or volcanic eruptions. As I walked through my … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardening, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tagged cataclysmic events, FORCES OF NATURE, mandevilla, natural force, Wordpress Weekly Photo Challenge | 7 Comments

A Garden Review of 2014: April-June

Posted on December 11, 2014 by johnvic8

Cathy, at WordsandHerbs, has encouraged her readers to present a review of their gardens for the past year, focusing on a quarter of the year each week up until Christmas. I am pleased to present this first offering. In putting this … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardening | Tagged 'Sunny Disposition', allium christophii 'Star of Persia', Azalea Sunglow, Bartzella, bearded iris, bluebells, Blushing Bride, Caesar's Brother, candy tuft, chaste tree, clematis, Comptesse de Bouchard, creeping phlox, Endless Summer, Ever Red maple, Flame Lilac, garden phlox, Garden Review 2014, General Sikorski, heirloom peonies, Hibiscus Midnight Marvel, hosta Frances Williams, hydrangea, Immortality, iris, Itoh peony, Keiko, Kousa dogwood, mandevilla, Ramona clematis, Siberian iris, Star of Persia, Summer snowflake viburnum, Twist and Shout, Vitex agnus-castus, Words and Herbs | 17 Comments

The First Bite

Posted on November 3, 2014 by johnvic8

Last night we experienced our first bite of autumn. It wasn’t much of a frost (about 28F [-2.2C]), but it was enough to freeze the surface of the birdbath, sentence the mandevilla to the compost pile, damage a number of open azalea and rose … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardening, Nature | Tagged 'Endless Summer' hydrangea, barberry, Ever Red Japanese maple, first frost, hydranagea, mandevilla, pansy, Royal Burgundy, Royal Burgundy barberry, viola | 6 Comments

End of the Month View

Posted on November 1, 2014 by johnvic8

I am pleased to join Helen at The Patient Gardener’s Weblog for the first time to offer an End of the Month View of my garden on October 31, 2014. The structure of my back garden could be described as formal…at least as … Continue reading →