This week’s bouquet is made from two shrubs since not much is blooming in the garden at the moment. I started this weekly feature a year ago to challenge myself to not only be more observant of what was blooming around me, but to be more creative in the process. It’s been a learning process of thinking creatively with no rules whatsoever. The flowering shrub … Continue reading this week’s bouquet
May is usually a month of abundant blooms in the garden, but this year only a few things are blooming. The few tulips that survived the deer, have gone over, and the cold rainy weather has slowed everything else to a crawl. While everything is lush and green, blooms are few and far between. But what I do like about this lull in performance, is … Continue reading the mid-may garden
This week’s bouquet is simple and ever so sweet smelling. Being rushed for time, and not much in bloom at the minute, I took the easy route and made a bouquet from all the Lily of the Valley plants in my yard. I have never used them for a bouquet before and never looked closely at their sweet faces. Actually, I made three bouquets and … Continue reading this week’s bouquet
When I was a child, yellow was my favorite color. As an adult, it has to be green. Four rooms in my home are green, and my porch. I’ve come to think of green as a neutral, since it plays so well with every color. Nature provides every shade imaginable and in every shape and size. After a drab, brown, and dreary winter, colors are … Continue reading the many and lovely shades of green
The lilacs are glorious this year. My row of lilacs were about 4-foot tall plants when I put them in three years ago, and since that time, some of them have reached 8-9 feet tall with the largest blooms I’ve ever seen. I planted 11 lilac bushes and there were 2 older bushes in this row along the side of my back yard. This was supposed … Continue reading this week’s bouquet
Does your porch become a “catch-all” during the winter? A place where everything lands, to be “put away another day”? Well, that’s my screened-in porch from November to April. Yesterday, the sun was shining into the porch in such a beautiful way, that I wanted to sit and relax there, but it was such a mess, and so dirty from six months collection of dust … Continue reading opening the porch
This year, I have but a few tulips. Most have been eaten by the deer, and only a handful survived to bloom. I’m getting very frustrated with the deer. Last night, I accidentally left the front gate open, and they came in and ate the grape hyacinth on the table of my deck, and they thoughtfully pinched back my pots of beautiful pink petunias for … Continue reading a few tulips
This week’s bouquet is ever so simple. As simple as childhood used to be. This may look like a lovely chrysanthemum, but it is the humble dandelion of our youth. Remember when we picked them as a surprise for our Mothers? Remember when we made linked chains from their stems? Remember when we blew the seeds into the wind, fascinated as only a child can … Continue reading this week’s bouquet
This week’s bouquet is quite simple. All but the pure white daffodils remain, and they are fragile from a full day of beating rain. The tulips have all but a few, been eaten by the deer. So that left only the Virginia Bluebells for picking. I’ve never used them in a bouquet before, but since they flourished so abundantly this year, I could bare to … Continue reading this week’s bouquet
I must admit, I have always been greatly influenced by English gardens and gardeners. My lifelong goal has been for my gardens to have the “cottage” style look, and I’ve always felt I was born on the wrong side of the pond. One thing I have noticed in the last few years is how many plants the English grow in pots. That is not to … Continue reading a trio of pots
