How to attract butterflies to your garden06.19.08

Back in 2002/2003 when my husband and I landscaped our backyard and created our raised bed garden I’d wanted to grow plants that would attract butterflies and birds to the garden. I spent the winter researching plants that would thrive in my area and that would attract butterflies. If they happened to [...]

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Rose buds are forming05.21.08

Wordless Wednesday

Most of the roses in my garden are beginning to develop rose buds. It won’t be long before beautiful roses like this Prince Napoleon Climbing rose fill my garden with their beauty and their scent.

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The Iceberg01.30.08

Wordless Wednesday

This lovely rose is an Iceberg.

It’s a hardy shrub that, in this area, seems to only grow to about four feet tall by 3 feet wide.
It blooms several times each season. Each time there are multiple flowers that each last for a few days.
Iceberg doesn’t have much scent. Not for me [...]

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Lovely hyacinth01.13.08

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I love scented spring flowers, don’t you?

I believe that the Hyacinth is one of the strongest scented spring flowers. They’re lovely scent is so strong that if I have the kitchen window open just a little bit when the flowers are blooming in the back garden I can sometimes smell the scent in my [...]

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