Gardening, anyone?

looks great

Much better picture to show how pretty they are...what a gift...

Gumdoctor

So beautiful, and at least nine more promised!!

Perfect in it's simplicity

please keep the photos coming. We are taking a break from gardening this season as there isn’t time to take care of it. Planted a handful of flowers but no “food”. Suppose that will be good for the soil. Will be living thru your work this season

I'm loving the pictures. Gonna build me a fairy garden.

Jazzy, who is going to tell you no to the dragon? Dracarys, city council! I am really going to miss GOT, and nothing surprises me more than to say that. I don't watch much TV, I had a hard time getting through all the violence initially, and here I am hooked and sad it's over and can't stop re-writing the last couple of episodes in my head. It has been a fun thing to share with my 22 yea old son. Now back to real life.

Congrats mommyof2! I had mine finished, but something decimated my cuke seedlings and now I’ll have to replant. 😞

Still have a little space to plant something else in my veggie garde

Got a new backyard swing - of course it has been raining here ever since we set it up. The hope was sitting and looking at the backyard, I would be more motivated to actually put in a garden.. Right now it is weeds...

Love the dark purple lilacs. Mine didn't do that well this year. My giant rose bush tree bloomed with tons of flowers even though the snow broke a major shaft last winter. We had an usually warm spring, we kind of went winter right to summer my spring flowers were short lived. My roses bushes are doing really well. But it it is a constant battle against black spot and insects. I liken it to fighting cancer, cut, spray, and keep debris picked put. Daily battle.

Wren, those I actually painted - forgot I used to stain glass paint.

Well, all my roses are in bloom and I have allergy issues. The roses are so pretty and being they are the old ones that actually smell, I love it.

The vines are mandevilla.

I have had hibiscus on this porch and they have not done well. The mandevilla are very hardy and do extremely well with minimal attention, in this climate and location. This will be the third time I have used them here and they will grow to completely cover the stakes. I have had to trim them before just so I can open the front door

Gumdoctor I would love to sit there too. Beautiful.

Jazzy what are the yellow stalk flowers? That is one I do not recognize so it must not grow near me.

I got my purple themed annuals planted, plus two pots for the porch and planted various lettuce seeds in containers on the deck. And of course my fairy garden. I am trying to stop now and not buy additional items but I think I need gardenaholics anonymous. I see the mandevilla and I think, oh I could put that on my trellis for the summer! Oh I probably needs hibiscus too to continue the tropical theme, And some hanging baskets for the deck...