Wordless Wednesday: Hydrangea Selma

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Mominthegarden

In the beginning…

Now that is a horrible picture to start a blog post with! And actually, that is not even (exactly) “in the beginning”. That picture is the year after I bought my hydrangea Selma. I had to dig it up and help the soil a bit. The poor hydrangea was not happy. Even with digging it up and helping the soil, it took last year for it to really settle in! Last year the plant looked nice and healthy, but didn’t have any blooms. Thankfully, this year is going much, much better!

Earlier in the season

A cherry color if you ask me

The foliage is a lovely almost burgundy color

The white centers are becoming more prominent

(the green leaves are from another plant)

(the green leaves are from my leycesteria formosa plant)

Still filling in with blooms

And here are two pictures of the plant when I bought it in August 2010. I prefer what it looks like today 🙂

It looked lovely when I bought it!

This is what it looked like when I bought it in August 2010

Another “Dana version” of Wordless Wednesday! Here is a link to what we did to the soil to help the health of the hydrangea, if you’d like to read about that: https://mominthegarden.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/hydrangea-selmas-new-life/

I’m so glad I had the chance to share all of my hydrangea pictures!
I should really challenge myself to actually post with no words… But what fun is that? 🙂

Dana

A garden no matter how small…

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Mominthegarden

Floribunda Rose Queen Elizabeth

I was away from my country living today, and was in and around Dublin for the day. Being one to always be on the lookout for flowers and gardens, it struck me how many home gardens I saw. Gardens in very, very small spaces and with beautiful flowers! It was clear that no matter the size or location, the gardens were well tended and cared for; all throughout the Dublin area. The predominant flower was definitely roses. There wasn’t one color in particular that stood out, but rather, every color was represented. It was such a treat to see! Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to take any pictures (and you know I would have if I could have!).

Floribunda Rose Burgundy Ice

This evening my son had a Gaelic football match in a nearby village. I think it would be safe to say that it was “in the country”. I was no less impressed on our drive there with the fantastic gardens in the front yards of houses. It is lovely how attentive people are to their gardens. I really like getting glimpses into different gardens, ideas, and flowers, especially when I’m not driving! 🙂

Hybrid Tea Rose Pink Peace

What a lovely day I’ve had. It was nice to really appreciate all that was around me. I still get moments of “wow, I live in Ireland”!

Rosa Jacques Cartier (1868)

ground cover flowers in my rose garden

But mostly, I get feelings of “wow, I really like my garden”…

A view of the rose garden

It is a work in progress. But it is all a labor of love.

A glimpse of the roses at our front gate

I hope there is a beautiful garden near you to make you smile! Or at least, I hope a glimpse into my garden will make you smile 🙂

Happy Summer!

Dana

Roses, and blackspot, and milk, oh my!

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Mominthegarden

Rosa Jacques Cartier (1868) My favorite rose in the garden.

The dreaded blackspot has returned to my roses this year. Oh how my heart sank when I first saw it on those pretty rose leaves that seemed to be so healthy! But treating blackspot with milk? Really? Are you sure??? Well, here is my story so far! I love roses. So much so that they were the first flowers that I planted into my first flowerbed. That was way before I knew anything about blackspot. or roses. The next rose plant I buy will definitely be blackspot resistant. But for now I must deal with what I have, and that is rose plants with blackspot…

Blackspot damaged leaves

I gave Fruit Hill Farms in Cork a call last year (https://www.fruithillfarm.com/). They are an organic center and they suggested that I try and build up the health of the plant to prevent blackspot. I wasn’t too surprised to find that what they suggested, Mucofol, was quite smelly to use!

Rose plant early in the season

Rose plant (still healthy looking)

For those who wish the details of the Mucofol, here you go:

Mucofol (L) is absorbed by the leaves and the soil. Thanks to its root stimulant and crop care ingredients the roots, leaves and soil are increased with endogenic capacity and develop its own immune system. The ingredients in the product are working as soil conditioner, plant strengthener and have an indirect effect on pests and diseases. It consists of a highly concentrated composition of specific herbs based on water. The product is natural and of vegetable origin, non-toxic and not persistent. The product will be degraded in the soil and leaves no residues in nature.

Keeping track of rose plants…

The Mucofol is in liquid form which you then dilute with water. We sprayed the roses a few times early this spring. They initially seemed to be doing well. But unfortunately, the blackspot has appeared.

One of my climbing roses still looking good.

The same week that I noticed the blackspot, one of the blogs that I follow had a post about treating blackspot with milk. Kevin Lee Jacob, blogging from the Hudson Valley in New York (which is where I grew up), has a wonderful blog called A garden for the house. You can click on his post about treating blackspot here: http://www.agardenforthehouse.com/2012/05/got-black-spot-get-milk/ It seems easy enough: add one part milk to two parts water, and spray once a week. The feedback on Kevin’s blog is quite good. I have my fingers crossed that it will keep the blackspot from spreading.

Rosa Jacques Cartier (1868) late May early June (getting enough air circulation???)

I do know, as I am sure all of you do too, to clear away all of the bad leaves (and never put them in the compost). I pruned the roses this past winter to help with air circulation. I might have to revisit that, though, as my old fashioned rose plants (the Rosa Jacques Cartier) seem quite crowded despite my pruning.

Rosa Jacques Cartier (1868) on June 14th (after two milk & water treatments)

Speaking of pruning, I am filing this other blog post away for next winter as I think there are quite a few good points to it. Have a look and let me know what you think: http://www.hometalk.com/3816372/the-10-biggest-mistakes-people-make-when-pruning-roses

Quick, take some pictures while still looking good!

For now, I have cut off as much of the blackspot affected leaves as possible, and I will continue to spray once a week with my water and milk spray. Oh, and I’ll be taking as many pictures as possible while they still look pretty!

Climbing rose in June

Climbing rose in June (evening sunlight)

It is amazing how different things look with different lighting! Our evenings can be so beautiful, with sunlight right up until 10 P.M.

Rosa Jacques Cartier (1868) and bee

My garden has been buzzing for a few weeks now, with the busy sound of bees. Early this spring we had millions (really!) of lady birds (or called lady bugs, depending on where you are from). It was neat to see them all as they were everywhere! And unlike last year, I didn’t have any issue with aphids. At all. Just blackspot…

Rosa Jacques Cartier (1868)

I hope if you have roses, they are nice and healthy! If you happen to get blackspot and try the milk/water solution, please let me know how that goes for you.

Dana

Peony in a very special Vase

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Mominthegarden

In the beginning…

I started this post as a “Wordless Wednesday” idea. But I just have a really hard time not adding text! So I am going to forget about the wordless Wednesday part, and I’m just going to tell you about my peony. My father-in-law divided his peony plant for me a couple of years ago. Peony are fussy, so the first year nothing happened with my plant. The second year we had (maybe) a couple of flowers. Finally, this year we have a full shrub of flowers. Good things come to those who wait! 🙂

Peony flowers

I had enough blooms on the shrub that I didn’t mind cutting some. I actually waited a bit to cut them, so they were nearing the end of their lives anyway.

Peony in a water jug

My parents live in New York, so while Skyping with my mom I showed her my peony arrangement. Maybe you heard her gasp??? You see she gave me that beautiful vase. Well, I think it is a water jug but I used it as a vase. There are two to the set. But never would she imagine that I’d actually *use* it! They are quite special to her (and now to me), and beautiful, and more than 100 years old. Honestly, they’ve sat up high on my bookshelves for way too long. It was time to bring some of that beauty into our living space. I love it. And I think the peony flowers look lovely in it.

My special (water jug?) vase

I promised my mom I’d be careful with it. The peony flowers have since faded and the vase is back up high in its safe place again…

Peony in the garden at the front gate

I still have a few peony just barely hanging on to life in the garden. Even now they are providing a lovely splash of color.

Peony with rain in mid May

I tend to take lots and lots of pictures of individual flowers and close-ups. I like to be able to really focus in on one thing! But I actually have a picture of the area around our front gates as I had been working on one of the beds this past weekend. I hate taking pictures when weeds get in the way! (that explains why so few full bed pictures…) So this is a current picture of the peony flowers. Very, very, very near the end of their lives. But oh so beautiful even still.

Peony at the gate

I wonder what flowers I will put in the special vase next?

Thanks for visiting!
Dana

A Pink and Purple Garden

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Mominthegarden

In the beginning…

That isn’t a picture of our “pink & purple” garden. It is a picture of the area before we created our garden. Over the weekend my husband complimented our pink & purple garden. It was a little funny because he said “we’ve done a really good job with this garden”. I was weeding it at the time. He was watching me. I have to say that I just stopped and looked at him for a moment, before he smiled and then said “oh, I mean *you* did a really good job”! Indeed. 🙂 Here is a post which tells (and shows) the process of my creating it. https://mominthegarden.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/making-a-flower-bed-one-bucket-of-topsoil-at-a-time/

Pink & Purple garden (May 31st)

I have boxwood, called box plant in Ireland, around the border. It struggled for at least a year, and I thought it wasn’t going to make it. I’ll spare showing you the pictures of it turning a rusty orange color. I fed it quite a few times this past winter and it is now finally showing new signs of healthy life. There are three larger box plants on the left in the above picture. My husband and I are debating on what to do with them. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to sculpt them into something fun? 🙂

A better view of the box plant around the pink garden

A better view of the box plant around the pink & purple garden

I have extended the garden a tiny bit since I first planted the box plant. I must bring that line of box plant down a bit further to complete the garden.

Allium ‘purple sensation’, foxglove, erysimum bowles, Weigela florida ‘Alexandra’, Hydrangea Selma

Parts of the garden have really filled out. The foxglove plant wasn’t planted by me. It is the second plant that has been planted courtesy of the birds! It seems to fit in nicely where it is, lucky enough!

foxgloves

The Erysimum Bowles plant is on its last leg I’m afraid. It gets quite woody, gangly and unruly after a few years. I will be replacing it at the end of this season, hopefully with another of the same. It is still quite pretty from the front!

Erysimum Bowles ‘Mauve’

Purple sensation allium gives great personality to the garden. It is a real attention getter! Our spring must have been quite mild as I only put in a couple of stakes just the other day for the allium. Normally they would be completely flopped over by now!

Allium ‘purple sensation’

Allium up-close

Those are all of the blooms in the pink & purple garden so far. I have a few more plants that should give it some color later on in the summer. Undoubtedly I’ll be shaking things up a bit and moving things around as I figure out sizes. For instance, that globe artichoke plant is double the size it was last year! We’ll see. And I’ll let you know how it goes. 🙂

The globe artichoke plant is *huge*!

Happy June!
Dana

Wordless Wednesday – Lilacs

Posted on May 21, 2014 by Mominthegarden

Syringa v. Beauty of Moscow

Wordless Wednesday … man that might be hard for me! I always have something to say 🙂

Syringa v. Beauty of Moscow

The first few pictures are of my pink lilac tree (Syringa v. Beauty of Moscow). It is 2 years old and this is the first year we have blooms. The tiny flowers are pink until they open, and then they transform to white. It is very pretty!

Syringa v. Beauty of Moscow

This next little shrub is called Syringa meyeri ‘Palibin’. We bought it at the same time as the Beauty of Moscow and just the same, this year is the first that it is blooming. It wasn’t on my “list” of plants to buy, but I was convinced to give it a try by the owner of the nursery. I have to say that I am pleased that I did as it gives off a lovely fragrance, much stronger than the lilac tree.

Syringa meyeri ‘Palibin’

Syringa meyeri ‘Palibin’ before the flowers opened

Syringa meyeri ‘Palibin’ oh so fragrant!

The next photos are of lilac that doesn’t belong to me. I drive through a lovely little village called Drumconrath to bring two of my kids Irish dancing. I passed this lilac tree a few times before I decided that I had to stop and take some pictures. I love the darker color of the blooms!

Lilacs along the road in Drumconrath

As it happened, the owner was outside when I stopped to take pictures. She is a lovely woman, and offered for me to take some home with me! She didn’t know the variety of lilac, unfortunately.

lilac

I had fun taking pictures of the flowers at home. I love taking pictures of flowers! 🙂

lilacs in a vase

And that is my version of a Wordless Wednesday!
Happy Wednesday
Dana

My “flowers from the garden” Wreath

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Mominthegarden

Flowers from the garden Wreath

It has become rather popular on Thursdays to post pictures from the past on facebook and refer to “Throw back Thursday” on the post. Sure, when isn’t it fun to look through old photos? I found myself doing that today, and decided to join the Throw back Thursday movement and post about a wreath I made last summer.

My lavender

I have to say that I am a rather practical gal most of the time. If it is possible to recycle or reuse something I will try to do so. That includes what I grow in the garden! I like growing flowers which can be dried. I love my lavender for this reason! I’ve learned how to make lavender wands, and last year I made a lavender wreath for the first time. (of course I posted about it! https://mominthegarden.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/lavender-wands-my-first-lavender-wreath/ ).

Roses & hydrangea

Roses and Lavender from the garden

I have some lovely old fashioned roses that are beautifully scented. I dry them in my clothes closet and it smells so lovely every time I open the door!

Roses from my garden

lavender, roses, and hydrangea

The wreath is easy to make. I use Spanish Moss as filler between the smaller flowers. The hydrangea comes from my friend Susan’s garden. I have planted some hydrangea plants though, so I am hoping I’ll be able to use them (eventually)!

Susan’s blue hydrangea

Look at that blue! I know in my yard they grow pink, and I’m happy enough with that. I just might visit Susan around July though, and see how her blooms are doing! 🙂

My pink hydrangea

Annabelle hydrangea

The Annabelle hydrangea is the next plant I’m going to try growing. It is simply majestic!

Flowers from the garden Wreath

At the top-right of the wreath is some dried allium. I’ve used allium before, but only after spray painting it silver for a Christmas arrangement. So using it plain was something new for me. I like the different texture it gives the wreath.

Allium from my garden

I’ve had the wreath hanging in my kitchen throughout most of the year. It is getting time to replace some of the flowers, though, as they’ve lost their vibrant colors. That is O.K. as I like to keep things looking fresh!

Throw back Thursdays – I think I like that theme!

Happy Thursday!
Dana

A last look at the garden in April

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Mominthegarden

Bramley Cooking Apple tree

Today is the last day in April, and I just wanted to show you some of what has been growing in the garden this spring. I really think it is picture worthy. Of course, I might be a little biased. 🙂 The picture above is of our Bramley (cooking) apple tree. The blossoms are so pretty! My husband is responsible for pruning the apple trees every winter and I think he’s been doing a nice job. We moved our other (eating) apple tree this winter, so it doesn’t have as many blossoms just yet.

Bramley cooking apple tree blossom

New to this part of the garden are some supports for peas. My friend Susan gave me some useful Hazel sticks which my husband used to make tee-pee like structures. He then wrapped them in chicken wire. The peas climbed the wire quite happily last year, I just didn’t like how it looked in a straight line. I already like this look much better, even before the peas get going! The peas were planted this week.

Newly built supports for our peas using hazel and chicken wire.

Strawberry beds

Here’s a little peek at my strawberry beds. I’ve weeded them a couple of times this spring! They are coming along really well. Last year was an amazing year for strawberries. I have my fingers crossed that this summer will be as good! At the far end of the garden, closest to the red playhouse, we have raspberries growing. They look good this year. This is one fruit that has not thrived for us (yet). This year at least looks promising!

Mallow

On to flowers! This beautiful mallow plant was courtesy of a bird. Well, at least I didn’t plant it. The color is a lovely plum. We had to stake it as we live in a very, very windy area. Nevertheless, it is doing quite well!

Mallow

Ditch Wall Garden

This garden is affectionately called the “ditch wall garden” as I uncovered a ditch wall while creating this garden. I wrote about it here: https://mominthegarden.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/ivy-ivy-everywhere-finding-a-lovely-little-rock-ditch-wall-under-the-ivy/ . The current star of the garden is this primrose. It has really taken off since I planted it last year (given to me from a friend’s garden).

Primrose

Also adding to this little garden is this dark euphorbia. My friend Susan visited me yesterday and she loved the color combination of the euphorbia and my Freeman tulips. 🙂

Freeman tulips and a dark euphorbia

I know I’ve already posted about my tulips, but I had to add a few more pictures of them. They have done so well this spring!

White tulip

This white tulip is new to me this year. I like it, I just didn’t order enough of it!

White tulip close-up

I have a tulip correction, too. I mistakenly called my Foxtrot tulips “Innuendo” tulips. Yikes! The REAL Innuendo tulips are these:

Proper Innuendo Tulips

While the Foxtrot tulips are these:

Foxtrot tulips

How did I mix them up???

My favorites: Ballerina tulips

But without a doubt, my favorite tulips this year are my Ballerina tulips. I have loved every minute of them! The last flower picture is of some flowers that were in a flower pot from last year. I did nothing with the container over the winter. It sat at my back door, completely neglected. So it is funny to be rewarded with these lovely Calendula flowers after so much neglect!

Calendula flowers in a flowerpot

April was quite good to us, don’t you think? I hope your spring is as lovely for you!
Dana

Visiting Dorothy Clive Gardens in Staffordshire, England

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Mominthegarden

Dorothy Clive Gardens Visitor’s map

Two of my children are Irish dancers, and for the past year they have been working really hard towards the goal of dancing at the World Championships in London. Those championships were last week and dance they did! It was a wonderful experience for all of us, and their teams danced really well (spectacular, really!). I know I mentioned it before, but proud mama moment here: My sons’ team is 1st in the World for under 16 mixed ceili, and my daughter’s team is 3rd in the world for the Under 11 mixed ceili!

My son & daughter holding their Irish dancing teams’ globe trophies! 1st & 3rd place

As part of our “going to London” family vacation experience we took time to drive through some beautiful English countryside. It was so lovely! It really is a simply enjoyable experience seeing the different style country houses and gardens. The brick houses are so pretty, and just that bit different than what we would see in the Irish countryside. Our first day we stayed at Slater’s Country Inn in Newcastle, Staffordshire which was lovely and cozy http://www.slaterscountryinn.co.uk/ and fit the bill perfectly for us. The restaurant provided delicious traditional English food with a personal touch. Best of all, it was just up the road from the Dorothy Clive Gardens which is where we were heading the next day.

Slaters Country Inn Newcastle, Staffordshire, England

Slater’s Country Inn in Newcastle, Staffordshire, England

I was very lucky. The weather was mild and sunny. I’m not sure how amiable my kids would have been if we’d brought them to gardens in the rain! But given the day that was in it, they happily enjoyed going around the garden (and playing a bit of chase). There were some visitors there who I’m sure would have preferred them to walk quietly. But sometimes you just have to give a little.

Pond at entrance to the gardens

The gardens! Dorothy Clive Gardens are in Staffordshire ( http://dorothyclivegarden.co.uk/ ) . The entrance fee was 6 pounds 75 cents per adult and 2 pounds per child which I found to be a reasonable price. There are 12 acres of gardens to roam through. I loved so much about it! For starters, I like the rustic fencing and beech hedges of the entrance.

Entrance into the gardens

Plant supports

Here are some natural and rustic looking plant supports. I like how this blends in with the garden. This actually is in the formal part of the gardens. One section is now hosting tulips and hyacinth.

Tulip walkway

Tulip garden

The tulips were spectacular! They definitely made me want to plant MANY more tulips in my garden!

Tulip garden

I’m getting ahead of myself here! Before we even reached the tulips, as we were walking up the hill, we could smell the sweet smell of hyacinth. They lined both sides of the walkway and were lovely to see.

Hyacinth

More of the formal gardens

There were a few benches that the pathways lead to. Here is one that I really liked:

Pathway to a rest-stop! Imagine the plants that will shade that bench! The matching obelisk are lovely, too.

Another part of the formal garden included a beautiful Laburnum arch. It is at it’s best (in bloom) for about two weeks at the end of May. I thought it looked quite pretty even now. Those allium are going to be fabulous when they bloom all around the arch!

Dorothy Clive Gardens (Laburnum Arch)

Archway

Leaving the perfectly manicured section of the garden, we entered the woodlands. Such a completely different feel to the garden, very relaxed and “messy” yet so beautiful in a completely different way.

Walking among the rhododendron

I had a harder time capturing the overall feel to the woodlands, than of individual flowers. But take my word for it, please, that it was beautiful!

Red rhododendron

Pink rhododendron

Rhododendron and azalea are growing throughout the entire garden! Yeah, so I tried to get a shot of every color… I hope this isn’t too much rhododendron for you!

Light pink rhododendron

pink stripe rhododendron

A bench to sit and enjoy the view

White rhododendron

Woodlands walk

Rhododendron weren’t the only plants, though. There were lots of camellia – more than 50 varieties. This is down from the 125 varieties which were planted during the 1970’s! Harsh weather has brought the number down to what it is today. They were still beautiful even as they near the end of their blooming season.

My favorite Camellia (we called it the star camellia)

Camellias

Light pink camellia

pink camellia

Magnolia

There were plenty of paths to choose from. We wandered for quite a while. If you keep going up, these are the views you’ll see:

View from the very top of the gardens

We really did enjoy our time in the gardens. After making our way down the hill, we came upon the more kid focused section. They had an amazing Insect Hotel!

Insect Hotel

The kids were enticed to try some of the edible garden!

Edible garden

There was a small cafe & gift shop (of course!) too. I was so glad we had visited this garden. It was a lovely day out for our family.

I hope you have enjoyed my garden tour, too!
Dana

grape hyacinth

Easter Blessings! and perfect weather for tulips.

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Mominthegarden

Ballerina Tulips

“Happy Easter!” says she who is going to pop back into blog land with no fan-fare or hoopla, but a simple blog post filled with pictures of my tulips. 🙂 I’ve missed posting, and visiting blogs and all that goes on in the virtual world. I had a wee break, but I’m back now. I have so much to show you from my garden and travels!

Ballerina Tulips

I’ve gone a little crazy with pictures of my tulips this year. We live in an exposed area that is surrounded by fields on three sides. There is always wind, even on a calm day! So normally my tulips, actually all of my flowers, get quite a beating. It is rather unusual to see all of my tulips standing and their blooms intact!

Ballerina Tulips

We were in London this past week for the Irish Dancing World Championships (yay for my kids’ teams placing first and third!!!). Ahem, trying to stay focused here after a very fun filled Irish dancing week… During our time away, the tulips not only came up but filled out perfectly. The weather here must have been as nice as it was in London!

Ballerina Tulips & (rather dry) fields

I love tulips. 🙂 O.K., I love all flowers.

Innuendo Tulips

These Innuendo tulips are supposed to be a more solid pink color on the inside, and white on the outside. I only know what they are because I marked it in my book, because they sure don’t look like the picture on the bulb bag! I think they are lovely all the same.

Innuendo Tulips

Group shots of all of the tulips are harder to get just right. I prefer the individual close-ups. But because all of them were still standing and looking so darn good I had to capture them all!

Innuendo Tulips

Blueberry Ripple Tulips

Blueberry Ripple Tulips – isn’t that the best name? Again with these tulips the color is not a match for the lovely picture on the bulb bag – mine are more burgundy-ish instead of true purple. I’m O.K. with that.

Tulips group photo (in the rose garden)

If I were to be critical of this garden, I would have to say that color cohesion is lacking. My problem is that I love all o the different colors and styles of tulips! I would like to try and bring in a deep pink color throughout this garden instead of in a group. I’ll be thinking about that until the fall!

Deep pink tulips

Deep pink/purple like these tulips! That would also tie the two gardens together. Oh the possibilities…

Deep pink tulips with Mr. Fokker Anemone

We moved into our house four years ago. My husband bought these tulips for me on a trip to Holland shortly after we moved in. They were one of the first bulbs we planted. I love little thoughtful things like that. He even picked pink for me! The Erysimum bowles’s mauve in the back on the right goes really well with them too, don’t you think? Mr. Fokker Anemone are probably going to be the one plant throughout my entire yard because it is just so easy and pretty!

Two front gardens

Here’s a look at the two front gardens with all of the tulips. I still can’t believe how well all of the tulips have done this season!

mystery tulip

This last tulip is blooming where I planted Double Late Mount Tacoma tulips, but it certainly doesn’t look like that variety. I’ll have to see as it comes into full bloom.

Dorothy Clive Gardens, England

This last picture is from a garden we visited while en-route to London last week. The Dorothy Clive Gardens were simply lovely, and well worth a visit. I will definitely share the tons of pictures I took there in another post!

Happy Easter to my friends and family and fellow bloggers! Here is to new beginnings!
Dana

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Category Archives: Pictures of Flowers

Wordless Wednesday: Hydrangea Selma

A garden no matter how small…

Roses, and blackspot, and milk, oh my!

Peony in a very special Vase

A Pink and Purple Garden

Wordless Wednesday – Lilacs

My “flowers from the garden” Wreath

A last look at the garden in April

Visiting Dorothy Clive Gardens in Staffordshire, England

Easter Blessings! and perfect weather for tulips.