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A Friday Walk in the Garden: End of Month View: June 2017
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
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In a Vase on Monday: Heirlooms, old and new
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
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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day: November 2015
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
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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day: October 2015
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
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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day: 15 August 2015
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
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day: June 15, 2015
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
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Forces of Nature
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
End of the Month View
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