Sunday, June 13, 2010

Sunday's walk about

Coral bells
Glowing Embers Hydrangea
Robin egg shell...I hadn't realized that they were still nesting.
This is what happens to a newly planted oriental lily when a rabbit gets hungry....needless to say, I don't think he will be back.
This hosta is so pretty this year. I like the leaves on the flower stems.
Side yard hosta bed
Another hosta bed
Black eyed susan
Baby bug...grasshopper??
My ailing pepper plants...something ate a few of them. The others are coming along.
Raspberries
Tomato blossom....I wonder if there is a certain time frame from blossom to fruit?
Italian green beans...a little spotty germination. My overgrown sage plant made it in the pic also.
Black eyed peas....for the southern girl @ heart :)
Oriental lily
Knock out rose
Lavender
Lavender
Stella d'Oro daylilies
Potatoes that have been beat up by our stormy weather here recently


Our lone Wolf River apple
Annabelle Hydrangea in full bloom
Purple coneflower just starting to bloom....funny how they start out cream colored
Oriental Lily
Purple coneflower plants
Purple coneflowers....because of these plants, I am learning how to throw away living things...they border on being invasive!
Latest window box picture
Oakleaf hydrangea starting to bloom
Looking like there will be a lot of daylilies this year
Bumblebee on the Delphinium flowers

Friday, June 4, 2010

This week in the gardens

My backyard Oakleaf hydrangea....this guy has almost been moved because of not doing really well under this maple tree. This year seems to be a turn around year for it. I will leave it for one more year to see how it does.
For the life of me, I cannot remember the name of this flower. I'm sure that I have the tag somewhere in my shed.
Lauren's very own raised bed. She loves it! Last year it was over run with her gourds. Actually the gourds over ran most everything around them!! This year...no gourds...just some flowers and some veggies.
The very first red raspberry of the season. Not quite ready yet. We have had a fair amount of bee activity which is encouraging with all of the talk of Colony Collapse Disorder.
Baby red raspberries :)
The remainder of my tomato plants...total of 40 this year. Many different varieties.
Volunteer dill....love the way it smells just by bumping into it!
My pepper bed. Something is making my plants on the left side of the picture all wilt. I think that something is eating them just below the soil line. :(
Roma tomatoes
16 Roma tomato plants....hoping for lots of canning and some salsa!!
Potatoes poking through the ground
Potato bed with plants just breaking ground
Annabelle Hydrangea This plant has become huge! I received it in a gallon pot for Mother's Day about 10 years ago, have transplanted it when we moved to this house and it seems quite happy where it landed. It gets some pretty punishing summer sun from the west. I think that next spring I will be dividing it.
Black raspberries...will have to net these very soon. The birds will think that they have dessert otherwise.
Same black raspberry bush. We transplanted this from a start near our compost pile that was probably deposited from a bird. Last year was a great year and we got a lot of berries from it. Quite a bit of the plant died after this past winter.
Yellow primroses
Oakleaf Hydrangea. I have quite a few hydrangea bushes...six actually. This is the best that this one has ever looked. As you can tell, we are in the process of remulching the flower beds this year....as well as getting ahead of the darn weeds.
My rogue Delphinium among the Columbines. I started all of these perennials from seed and this one got planted in the wrong place. It seems to like it here though, so I hate to move it.
Close up picture of the Delphinium
My pride and glory Jackmanii clematis. I have had others of these and they have never lived past the first year. Thought I had found something that I just was not going to be able to grow, but persistence paid off with these pretty blooms!
Believe it or not, this is actually a Glowing Embers Hydrangea. You would never be able to tell by looking at the flowers. They are supposed to be red. Mine are white with a pink tinge to them. I nearly killed three hydrangeas one year by liming them to try to change their color. They didn't bloom for a couple years after that. This year is the first year that they seem to have come out of it.