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Happy Plants equal Happy gardeners

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This weeks theme is Happy

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I’m sure that anyone that’s been to this site before knows that as far as my garden goes seeing my plants doing well and blooming makes me happy.

Just look at the lovely rose photo I’ve included in this post.

I took that photo last year and I can’t remember just which rose bush those flowers were blooming on. My guess is that it’s either Compte de chambord or Baronne Prevost. Either way, the roses are lovely and highly scented.

Imagine walking into a garden filled with lush blooms like those above, surrounded my their beautiful scent. How could you not be happy.






The Color Purple

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My garden is made up of many different colored flowers, but when I look at the photos I’ve taken it seems that there are much more of some color than others. I thought I’d show you a few of my lovely purple flowers today.This flower is grown from a bulb. It’s formally called Liatris and more commonly known as Gay Feather.

Liatris

In my front flower bed I grow a small woody plant called Pervoskia Little Spire. I believe it’s a form of Russian Sage. I think it was a little windy when I took this photo and the flower stalks in the center moved closer to the lense as I shot the photo so the center is slightly out of focus.

If you can’t grow lavender you might try growing Russian Sage or even a nice Salvia as they are similar in appearance (tidier I believe), but they don’t have any scent.

Pervoskia Little Spire

Finally, here’s the common but ever so lovely purple petunia. Need I say more?

Purple petunia

How many purple flowers do you grow?

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They can clean the feeder out in one day

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This weeks theme is Two

Two birds, two photos …

They have their eye on something …

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Yep it was one of the bird feeders …

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I wrote a post the other day saying the birds that visit my yard are pigs.

It’s true. These birds are fairly small and the one feeder in the photo is about two feet tall and perhaps 6 inches in diameter. They can clean this feeder out in as little as one or two days depending on how many birds come around.

As someone commented on my piggy post I also do believe that the birds tell their friends that they’ve found a great place to eat and more and more birds show up over time. There’s no such thing as secret dining establishments in the bird world.

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