Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Why I Love My Garden, By Prairie Bride, Age 30


Despite our lack of rain and HOT weather, my flowers are surviving. Tough little buggers. I can't take any credit for them. I usually forget to go water them in the evenings,
and it's been weeks since it rained.
.
This is why I love my garden:
.
1.) All of the plants are perennials, except for the
climbing vine, God bless 'em.
Perennials rule.
They come up every year, with very little maintenance once they're established.
.
2.) The previous owner, who planted the garden, had the foresight to plant flowers that bloom at different times.
I almost always have something in bloom, all summer long.

.

..


.

These magenta and yellow ones are my favorites.

.

. .

.


I even tried to get an artsy shot with a bee hovering near one of the plants.
.
But then the bee started hovering around me and my brightly colored shirt,
which is when I spastically waved my hands in the air
and said to the bee (out loud, not realizing I was within earshot of the neighbors),
.
I am not a flower!!
.
I'm so cool.



Sunday, June 17, 2007

More gardening




My daylilies are finally blooming!

















And check out the Sweet Williams now!

Monday, May 28, 2007

Gardening

My daylilies show no sign of blooming this year.








But the Sweet Williams have started blooming!






The slugs eat my hostas. Stupid slugs.