These are (probably) some of the last photos I’ll be posting of my garden this year. I have already dumped a lot of pots and cleaned out some areas of the garden (I hate to pull out still-blooming plants though, so I usually just leave them all until the frost knocks them down). Most of [...]
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Fall Garden
Posted in Daily Walks, Flowers, Garden, Gardening, nature, outdoors, Photos, yard, tagged annuals, container garden, creekside plantings, fall garden, flower beds, grass, seeds on October 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Common Buckeye Butterfly
Posted in Daily Walks, insects, nature, Photo of the day, Photos, tagged butterflies, common buckeye butterfly, eyespots, gardens, Junonia coenia, marigolds, nectaring, skipper on August 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »
There’s nothing common looking about this beautiful butterfly, the Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia). I see these butterflies quite often in my gardens in summer. Today, this one kept coming back to some tall yellow marigolds on the patio. Click on the photos to enlarge and see the gorgeous patterns of color and large eyespots on [...]
Summer Blooms
Posted in Daily Walks, Garden, Gardening, yard, tagged annuals, bees, coneflowers, containers, dahlias, flower beds, Flowers, forget-me-not, monarda raspberry wine, perennials, summer blooms on July 16, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Just random shots from around the garden. Click photos to view larger versions. – Shasta Daisies in back porch bed – - Chinese Forget-Me-Nots & Rudbeckia at bridge – - Gladiolus – - Stargazer Lilies and Monarda ‘Raspberry Wine’ – - Border Dahlias – Volunteer Sunflower at edge of Secret Garden – - Bidens and [...]
This Week’s Blooms
Posted in Daily Walks, Flowers, Garden, Photos, Plants, yard, tagged allium, annual phlox, azalea, flower beds, flower gardening, late flowering tulips, native flame azaleas blooming, showy orchis wildflower, weigela, white allium on May 1, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Well, actually these are photos taken over the past two weeks. I have been so busy with the planting and yard work that I haven’t had time to post. I still have so many plants just waiting to be planted.. The photo at left is a Showy Orchis (Orchis spectabilis), a very pretty little wild [...]
Clematis, Iris And More
Posted in Daily Walks, Flowers, Garden, perennials, Photos, Plants, yard, tagged azalea, Bleeding Hearts, clematis, heuchera, hosta, iris, pathways, secret garden on April 20, 2011 | 8 Comments »
It is so hot and humid here it’s ridiculous, 85% humidity right now at midnight. It is already feeling like summer and it seems as if everything is blooming a little early this year — the May Night salvia is even blooming (photo at left)! The Agastache I started from seed indoors is already blooming [...]
Everything Is Blooming!
Posted in Daily Walks, Garden, Photos, Plants, yard, tagged ajuga, Bleeding Hearts, bridalwreath spirea, flower bed, flowering plum, gazebo, lily of the valley shrub, new pathway on March 29, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Or so it seems. Warm sunny days and rainy nights over the past week have caused an explosion of growth and bloom in my garden. The woods are getting a little greener, hostas are unfurling, plum trees and crabapples are blooming — everything seems a little earlier than usual this year. I’m already weeding and [...]
Warm Days
Posted in Daily Walks, Flowers, Garden, nature, tagged anemone, bulbs, cardinal, daffodils, early spring flowers, flower beds, forsythia, fresh mulch, hyacinth, robin on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We have had a great week here with lots of sunshine and temps in the 70s. We even reached 80 degrees yesterday and today! The trees are all sprouting now, bulbs and perennials are popping up everywhere and the butterflies are back! I have seen several small purple Spring Azures for the past two weeks [...]










