Gardening, anyone?

flaviarose

Another shot of crabapple

flaviarose

Wada's memory magnolia

Wren44

Flavia, Is that a full size house behind the crabapple or a shed? The tree is just gorgeous.

ananda8

Flaviarose,  Such a beautiful tree and such a lovely property.  More pictures please.

This thread is so calming.  There is so much wrong in the world, this is one place where I can see things grow and thrive because of love and attention.  Thank you all.

flaviarose

It is a garden shed behind the crabapple.

flaviarose

another magnolia photo from last year

Jackbirdie

beautiful. Thank you.

flaviarose

hanging basket with petunias

Jazzygirl

Wow, I LOVE that hanging basket. Outstanding!

70charger

my trees hum. I live 2 doors down from a honey farm!! Guess what I have, tons of bees. Love the pics, keep them coming.

 

OncoWarrior

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TwoHobbies

I feel like I see fewer bees too.  But then in the fall they are totally swarming my sedums, so perhaps they just visit other plants the rest of the summer. 

Beautiful pictures flaviarose.  I do a lot of containers and I think I might want to do multicolor this year.  I have tons of purple in my front yard and some fuchsia/pink so I've always kept to those colors but I just kind of want to go all out wild color this year.  

TwoHobbies

not mine but an inspiration from the botanic garden for my back deck

TwoHobbies

My cherry tree a couple of weeks ago. I feel like the photo does not capture it's beauty. Not sure if it's the camera or the photographer!

Jackbirdie

two hobbies- both are great pics! I enjoyed them and thx for sharing!

I started a brand new garden about six months ago (just before dx) and for fun I decided to do orange and white ( of course green foliage too). I am a hopelessly impulsive gardening shopper and I just realized today my garden is already starting to look like your inspiration garden container. It looks great. I did end up with some dominant colors and repetition by at least starting with that plan so it's all good. I think of it as my cancer garden. Not in a bad way but cancer changed me and it's changing the way I garden. I want to bring more life in. Or even birds. More hummers. Butterflies. I want life

TwoHobbies

Jackbirdie its so funny you say that because that's kind of what I was thinking too.  Since cancer I want to be my "wild child" (thank you Kenny Chesney for putting it into words), full of life, full of color, warmer, fiery, not just coloring inside the lines.  That's how I want my gardens to look.  Not to insult my pretty purples and pinks, but I do just want to add the yellow and orange to warm it up.  

Hummers love my coral bells, fuchsias, clematis, calibrachoa, and foxglove.  They even liked my sunflowers, perhaps because I had some that had the reddish coloring in them. 

MagicalBean

Holy smokes, your photos are all so beautiful. We seem to have quite a variety of sizes and shapes of gardens.

My Master Gardner classes are about half-way done. I was surprised at the amount of technical info and I definitely should have stayed awake in 8th grade science. Fortunately, all quizzes and the final exam are take-home. Each one of us also must do an hour-long presentation to the current MGs. It will require a lot of research.

Nothing here has flowered yet-except for the spring regulars (tulips, cherry trees, etc) But my perennials are greening up nicely. Looking forward to rearranging a few beds in the next couple of weeks. Enjoy your week, and thanks for sharing.

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flaviarose

Japanese maple with lilacs

Lilac

Jackbirdie

Japanese Maples and Lilacs-

Have to have come from heaven.

Loved the photos! Thanks for sharing

Jazzygirl

Beautiful pics ladies!

We are continuing to have rounds of rain here which is making my yard happy. I hope to have some new blooms to show you soon!

70charger

hope I don't offend anyone. Just
 SO cute!

ananda8

Made me laugh out loud. 

 

Jazzygirl

Charger- me too, that is hilarious!

Teka

Charger, perfect flower! ;o)

I love the following flowers that are now in bloom throughout the property.

*sweet blue violets*

*sweet white violets*

*wild red columbine* *old fashion fragrant white lilies-of-the-valley* *old fashion cowslip in a variety of colors*

*wild jack-in-the-pulpits*

Rosevalley

Teka!! LOVE the wild Jack in Pulpit! Thanks for the photos. Gorgeous.

Jackbirdie

Teka- lovely, lovely flowers. I loved the naturalized colonies, especially the columbine. And I also love the Jack in the pulpit!

Jazzygirl

Teka- what lovely flowers you have! I LOVE columbine but cannot grow them in my yard because it is just too hot. Folks up in the mountains here have them in their gardens and they also grow wild in the Rockies.

Looks like we have more rain coming this afternoon.

LilacBlue

I shared this on the daily exercise thread and thought many of you may like this as week, (except Jazzy, sorry for the repeat).

Each night this week, BBC has a 8pm hour long programme that highlights Chelsea Flower Show. Last night they talked about Breakthrough Breast Cancer garden. The Silver Gilt Medal was won because it was so beautiful, amazing and clever. The garden is based around a DNA double helix shape represented by a beautiful stone pathway, crossed by a ribbon of soft pink planting. There are water pools that ripple up and down every 10 minutes to represent the shocking statistics of women diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK. A sculpture by Rick Kirby, is designed to symbolize the courage and dignity of all those fighting the disease and representing women who will be helped by the charity. Designer Ruth Willmott claims this garden has particular meaning to her. She lost her late sister-in-law Angela to breast cancer (triple negative) in 2014 aged 49 years. Angela was an incredibly positive person throughout her life and Ruth wanted something positive to come from her death, so that others may benefit in the future. What a lovely memorial to Angela.

Jazzygirl

Lilac- that is beautiful. Thanks for sharing it and seeing it here first on this thread today (will be on exercise thread later today...)

Jackbirdie

LilacBlue- Thank you for so thoughtfully describing this garden. I found both what you said and the photo very moving. Eyes welled up a bit. That is something I would truly have loved to have seen in person. Classy.