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Flowers everywhere!

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I can’t believe my garden!

The roses have begun to bloom this week.

The winner of the first to bloom contest is my William Baffin Explorer rose as it was a close first to bloom, quickly followed by about five other roses on the same day including Morden Sunset, Bonica, Stanwell perpetual, the fairly and I believe Iceberg.

Three or four of my clematis are blooming, as is my Dropmore honeysuckle, the Siberian iris’, Princess Victoria Louise Oriental Poppy, and one of my peonies – peony Pecher.

Many of the other roses and perennial plants will soon follow as they are covered in buds!

The first rose to bloom, and many of the first roses to bloom are extremely hardy roses.

I’d actually have to say that William Baffin is no longer a rose bush or shrub but rather a rose tree. It’s at least 8 feet tall! So heavy with roses that it’s new branches are leaning out from the garden bed weighed down with buds and flowers. It’s a beautiful sight to see.

Yes, I will take photos shortly. I love being able to document how the garden is maturing with my camera.






A colorful Marigold

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I haven’t planted any marigolds yet, but I have purchased some. They’re sitting in their little seedling containers just waiting for me to plant them. This marigold is my neighbors.

On mother’s day her family actually did some work in the yard and they planted some flowers for her. A few days later I was out taking photos of my flowers and she insisted that I take pictures of her flowers too. Funny thing is that once I started she wanted me to stop because she decided she didn’t want me to waste my film. Try explaining to a lady that’s almost 90 what a digital camera is!

I truly must be on some kind of orange kick. I have flowers of many colors but I keep wanting to post flowers with orange in them. Even this new theme that I picked out and modified for As the Garden Grows has a lot of orange in it.

Orange is not my favorite color, but for some reason I seem to be very attracted to it in the last while. Odd. I haven’t purchased all my annuals for the garden beds yet … I wonder how many of them will have shades of orange this year?

Hyacinth Macro

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Many of the regular readers of this site are gardeners, or gardener wannabe’s. Everyone seemed to love my close up photo of the coral colored Hyacinth in one of my recent posts.

I bet you didn’t know that I took it a step further and got even closer. Hyacinth flowers are each less than once inch wide, perhaps as small as half an inch wide. Here’s an extreme closeup of one single hyacinth blossom:

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I got as close to the flower as I could and used the zoom function on my camera. Once I downloaded the photo to my computer I cropped the photo until I got the image you see above.

Interesting? Too close?

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