This week’s bouquet is a result of a need to do some serious cutting back. I needed to tie up the wayward new raspberry branches and to do that, I had to first remove the netting. But, I couldn’t even get near one side of the raspberry bed because of the verbena bonariensis. They had reseeded from last summer and become a gigantic patch of … Continue reading this week’s bouquet
This week’s bouquet starts with some golden rod that I nabbed from my elderly neighbor’s yard. Usually it is only found along the road side or in a country field. No one purposely allows this weed to grow in their yard. This year, while she was away, her son’s chopped down every weed and flower growing in her yard, but fortunately they missed her golden … Continue reading this week’s bouquet
There is nothing I love more in a garden than pink flowers – any variety will do. But there is something about pink roses that just makes my heart sing. This is David Austin’s English shrub rose, “Mary Rose”. I bought her in early summer not having any idea where I was going to plant her, so she kept me company on the deck where … Continue reading a new rose garden
It’s been a long, hot, and dry summer here in Ohio. We’ve not had a significant rainfall that makes a difference since mid June. Most of the garden is stressed from heat and lack of rain, and just barely hanging on. I’m stressed from the promising storms on the weather radar app that continually come to nothing, and also imaging how expensive my water bill … Continue reading a shady garden
Thought I had better get back to making bouquets before the summer is over. The August garden is waning, especially from the heat and lack of rain, but there are a few beauties still going strong. I started this bouquet with just zinnias since they needed picking. Grown from a pack of seeds, a good majority of the zinnias ended up being magenta, and they … Continue reading this week’s bouquet
Last summer I cleared an area at the far back of my yard to start an echinacea garden. This is what it looked like at the end of the summer, promising, but bare. Fast forward after one year’s growth and it is a lush garden full of color. I’m not one to mix my oranges with my pinks, but I just love the riot of … Continue reading echinacea garden – 2nd summer
In mid-March, I cast seeds for Poppies, Love-in-a-mist, and Larkspur on the hard frozen ground of one of my raised beds. Evidently these seeds need the freezing and thawing of late winter to germinate. They did not disappoint. If you missed them, the poppies can be seen here in a post I did on them a few weeks ago. Now, the Love-in-a-mist and Larkspur have caught up … Continue reading easy sow annuals
My one goal for today was to make a bouquet and get it posted online. Not a difficult job for any other time, but I was just released from the hospital following surgery for an acute appendicitis. I needed something to feel normal in my life today, even if it is not. Pictures are average, and the flowers of the Oakleaf Hydrangea appear that they … Continue reading this week’s bouquet
This week’s bouquet was fashioned around some shrub roses that are blooming in my yard. Though roses never seem to do well for me, these sweet roses never fail to produce sweet clusters of blooms off and on all summer. I no longer know their name, as they were a long-ago, end of the season purchase from the grocery store at only $3 a bush. … Continue reading this week’s bouquet
Once again, my good friend Jan, who gave me those lovely green birds, also gifted me with this vintage galvanized tub. Since I already had one that I had bought at a flea market, I decided to drill holes in the bottom of this one and turn it into a planter. I wanted to pot it up with something that would survive the winter and … Continue reading container planting
