Archive for August, 2008
My Black Eyed Susans are prolific this year. I don’t know how many I’ve pulled out as they creep into other areas of my garden, but I still have three or four large clumps of these bright yellow beauties cheerfully showing off their colorful blooms in my garden. I love these flowers. They bloom from [...]
Whenever I see a sunflower I always think of the hot, humid, hazy days of summer. These flowers just mean summer to me. Perhaps it’s because Sunflowers are one of the first flowers I can remember liking as a child. In fact I do believe that sunflowers were one of the first flowers I ever [...]
With a name like Strawberry Candy you know even before seeing this scrumptious daylily that it’s going to be delightful. I grow this lovely daylily in my planted boulevard in front of my house. It grows along side Siberian Irises, malva, pink cactus dahlias, sunflowers, marigolds and other plants that bloom at various times throughout [...]
These are French Marigolds. I grow them around the border of my planted boulevard garden. As you can see I also have a short bamboo fence in my little garden. It helps separate the planted area from the sidewalk. The short fence is very helpful in the spring as it lets people know that they [...]
Malva – such a simple yet lovely flower. This one is growing in my planted front boulevard. The Malva plant produces flowers from June right through to September or so. It looks lovely when it’s covered in blooms. Related Reading: One Dozen Assorted Wooden Roses Spellbinders Shapeabilities Dies, Foliage Rothco paracord 550LB NYLON 100 FT [...]
Morden Sunrise Rose These lovely roses are called Morden Sunrise. This is an appropriate name for this hardy Canadian Explorer series rose as the colors of the petals with their light yellows to soft peach and orange colors do look quite a bit like a sunrise on a beautiful day. This rose is growing better [...]
This rose is called Iceberg. It’s a Floribunda rose and it produces clusters of lovely white roses almost continuously throughout the growing season. Not only does it produce and abundance of pretty white flowers but these flowers also have a light pleasant rose scent. I grow this rose at the front of my house near [...]
I love Butterfly Weed. It produces lovely long lasting orange blooms each summer that attract Monarch butterflies as well as other species of butterflies, moths and as you can see even honey bees or wasps! I believe even hummingbirds enjoy Butterfly Weed Flowers. Related Reading: One Dozen Assorted Wooden Roses Foliage: Astonishing Color and Texture [...]
Maltese Cross is one of the easiest to care for plants that I grow. It’s quite hardy, grows tidily where I first planted it and returns each year to produce it’s lovely clusters of orangish red blooms. Related Reading: Just Ambulance Photos! Big Book of Photographs & Pictures of Ambulances and Medical EMT Rescue Paramedics, [...]
This delphinium grows like a weed in my garden. It either spreads or reseeds itself so well that each year I have to pull out several new plants just to keep this flowering plant under control in my garden. Still, it’s a lovely flower isn’t it? Droopy little purple bell shaped blossoms. Related Reading: Spellbinders [...]
These are Gayfeather (Liatris) buds. Each bulb develops a spike in June and by Mid to Late July each year the tiny flowers on each spike begin to bloom. They have a soft feather look from a distance and look lovely in large round clumps. Related Reading: Partingtons/Sinopolis [HD] Umbra Foliage Kitchen Sponge Holder, Smoke [...]
