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Thursday, June 14, 2012

In My Garden

Come on...let's go in my back yard.








One of my small gardens is crammed with colour right now! 





Yellow and pink roses, purple salvia, golden coreopsis, pale pink peonies








I wish you could smell these yellow roses.  







These pink, old fashioned roses have no scent.  Funny.  Luckily they're so beautiful.  






I'm not a big fan of annuals at all.  I have very few around my house.  Perennials all the way!  Why don't more people choose to plant flowers that actually attract honey bees??? 





White Salvia


I'm never stressed in my garden.  I don't worry about anything.  I just pull weeds, trim off spent blooms, water the flowers and let my mind wander...





Sweet William


I can't believe how much patience gardening requires.  If you plant a tiny perennial this year, you'll have to wait until NEXT YEAR for it to be better.  If you buy a plant that's already finished flowering this year, you'll have to wait to see how it will look NEXT YEAR.  If your tulips were crap this year, oh well.  Better luck NEXT YEAR.  





stunning, right?


Do you grow anything?  If you don't, why not?  We need beauty in our own little corners of the world.  Start small.   

Then you too will be able to have THIS on YOUR shelf:










and you can even put that scrumptious, beautifully perfumed bouquet in your own little antique silver cup, which you bought for three dollars from Value Village.  



23 comments:

  1. Oh so pretty!

    Gah, I suck at gardening. Everything I plant usually dies, because I don't have the time to figure out what each individual plant needs, i.e. fertilizer, more water, less water, more shade, less shade, more pickles, no pickles...

    I need some idiot-proof plants...any ideas? And then what about winter, when it gets cold and frosty? Do I gotta bundle them up in coats and stuff, or what?

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    1. Flannery, 98% of the plants I choose say DROUGHT TOLERANT, because if a plant is so picky it will croak on me if I miss ONE day of watering, then I am not interested.

      I would suggest starting with a small garden box. It can have its own bottom, or it can be on your yard somewhere. You can put a few nice flowers in it. I like cone flowers, brown eye susan, flox, butterfly flower

      YES THAT'S IT--YOU COULD FILL IT WITH A BUNCH OF BUTTERFLY FLOWER. They're drought tolerant and just plain pretty. They like a lot of sun. I think the real name is "Gaura"

      http://www.google.ca/search?q=butterfly+flower&hl=en&prmd=imvnsa&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=kGbaT5pYqJjbBYTWvboG&ved=0CF0QsAQ&biw=1360&bih=673#hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=gaura+plant&oq=Gaura+&aq=1&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_l=img.1.1.0l10.17491.17491.2.20063.1.1.0.0.0.0.146.146.0j1.1.0...0.0.nAyUtf_77Mc&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=8bf02e9322dcd46c&biw=1360&bih=673

      I have pink ones and white ones in one section. They're lovely.

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  2. love that!! My favs form our garden is the cactus garden...yes, right here in Canada...we have a little cactus garden :) My other fav is our red cannas. They are wonderful!
    I will have to tweet you a pic!

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    1. yes Steph, DO! Or, you could post it on my blog facebook page if you like. Either, or.

      Ooo..a cactus garden in Canada IS cool.

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  3. Thanks ow for sharing that peek into your garden. Guess I'll have to start posting some more garden pictures too - my roses are starting into full bloom. Perhaps that old-fashioned rose may have been used as a graft and then just took over.

    Give me a visit some time at thriftshopcommando.blogspot.com

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    1. will do, Tammy! Yes, I love pics of flowers. Roses are so fabulous.

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  4. Pretty, pretty, pretty!!! We're a good month behind you here. I also love my perenials and garden my buns off. It is a simple joy to me. I haven't done roses yet. I have to find a non-windy spot and then look out!

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    1. Maybe you could create your own non-windy shelter! Hey...I think I have a garden book around here and this lady has this HUGE perennials garden...no wait..gardenS, and she created this sheltered area in one spot away from the wind.

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  5. I buy ferns for the porch every year and they die. That's the extent of my gardening. I pulled out all the bushes that were here when I moved in and filled in the gardens with rock. I tried to garden. I used to like gardening but we have spiders the size of my palm here. I'd be pulling weeds and one would saunter out to visit. I'd scream and that would be the end of my gardening for the year.

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    1. Oh! Then you could do pots! Or, flowering shrubs? Yes! Flowering shrubs! Or, you could just keep doing what you're doing :) They require little care. Ferns are too picky. I don't know what kind of magical outdoor conditions are needed for a potted fern.

      Yeah, I hate the spiders. It scared me away from gardening in my old back yard in suburban hell.

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  6. The yellow Roses are beautiful. One thing about living in an apartment block...I really miss my garden...especially the wee little wrens that used to flit amongst the bushes. And the nest of honey eaters we saw from eggs to babies.

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    1. Well, you could always do a mini veg garden if you have a sunny window? Or just a little pot of beautiful flowers if you have a balcony or patio? I don't know--I think all women like flowers, even if in secret.

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  7. I've tried to grow things... I go through phases. Who ever's closest to me at the time usually delights in my ability to kill things without meaning to. **sigh** So I knit and crochet and sometimes wish I had a beautiful garden to do it in!! **lol**

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    1. Flowering shrubs that say they're "drought tolerant," or "EXTREMELY drought tolerant." Pick one that blooms in spring, one that blooms in summer and one that blooms in autumn and voila! You're a genius!

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  8. oooh your bouquet is beautiful!! I'm a bit fan of sweet williams. Alas I grow nothing but my waistline, i'm not very good at it

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    1. It's just trial and error and getting to know what works in your area, and what's reeeeeeeally easy to care for. I think anyone could grow a little plot of Cosmos. They're an annual, but they have that good, English cottage garden feel to them.

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  9. That's it! Everyone who is nervous about plants needs to go get a biggish pot, fill it with nice potting soil and grow some GAURA. They are very forgiving, and so pretty.

    http://home.howstuffworks.com/define-gaura.htm

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  10. Beautiful Karen! The island here has those old fashioned roses growing wild everywhere! All along the highways and in fields. Very beautiful.
    I like gardening too and only planted stuff that attracted honeybees and birds!

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    1. Good for you Pam! I know you love the flowers too. After all, you need something gorgeous to put in your beautiful jugs!

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  11. Major green thumb. Ditto re: perennials.

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  12. I am so sorry I haven't left a comment yet. I know I already popped in and took a look at your beautiful flowers. You must have been walking the kids to school. I love all the colors in your garden. Even though I am not a yellow person, I bet that yellow rose smells divine. I planted sweet william this year but I have never tried it before. Garden looks great. As for the pop, yes I buy it for parties and once in a while I buy one for myself because I enjoy the taste of diet coke. But, I know what you mean about the orange, and for me grape, it brings you right back to childhood when no one told our moms that it was bad for us.

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  13. Grape pop! Good one Alaina! All the flavoured pops are really childhood ones, aren't they! Thanks for the compliment about the garden. OH, it's nothing in scale to yours, you hard working woman you! Sweet William is very pretty but soon looks kind of leggy and weedy. The flowers are nice though, and it doesn't seem invasive, so that's a good thing. I tend to like super pale yellow--a shade or so away from white.

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