{"id":3818,"date":"2011-06-30T04:45:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T08:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/?p=3818"},"modified":"2011-10-24T22:18:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T02:18:28","slug":"my-gardens-beautiful-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2011\/06\/30\/my-gardens-beautiful-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"My garden&#8217;s beautiful this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>At the beginning of this month I wasn&#8217;t sure how well my garden was going to do this summer.<\/p>\n<p>You see, we had my neighbors putting in a new fence on one side, and the neighbors on the other side don&#8217;t take care of their yard at all so there&#8217;s always weeds creeping into our yard from their side, so the month started out in battle mode and it didn&#8217;t look good.<\/p>\n<div class=\"912745ff53504cd4aef8ff3ef7b9aa95\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* gardengrows_300x250inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4054669721\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I&#8217;m quite happy to report that after several weeks of giving our garden some tender loving care &#8211; ie lots of compost, mulch, planting new plants in the bare spots, making up <a href=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2006\/08\/05\/stinking-brew-alfalfa-tea\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">my special alfalfa tea<\/a> to fertilize the garden beds and so on &#8230; the plants are looking quite happy.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve actually been out in the garden taking quite a few pictures in the last week, maybe an extra 200 pictures!  You see we just got a new cellphone.  It&#8217;s a Nokia N8 and it has a 12 mpg camera inside it and it takes fabulous pictures and video!  I was going to post an HD video that I took with the phone in this post but for some reason I&#8217;m having trouble posting it to Youtube. Youtube keeps saying it&#8217;s going to take about five hours to upload a 7 minute video. Crazy!   So for now &#8230; I&#8217;ll just post a few pictures and I&#8217;ll try to find a way to get my garden tour video in another post soon.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some lovely White Petunias. I always put a few Petunias in hanging baskets near my bird feeders.  They help attract more birds, even hummingbirds if I plant red or pink ones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"06282011234 by triciawd, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dragonden\/5887171638\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"White Petunias\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5315\/5887171638_f2c34b3861.jpg\" alt=\"06282011234\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>Another flower that&#8217;s blooming like crazy right now is this Octavia Hill Rose, isn&#8217;t it pretty?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Octavia Hill Rose by triciawd, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dragonden\/5886589187\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Octavia Hill Rose\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5239\/5886589187_b492a565e4.jpg\" alt=\"Octavia Hill Rose\" width=\"400\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Lavender plants are just beginning to bloom.  I believe I have 7 or 8 Lavender plants scattered throughout my garden beds. The ones in the sunniest spots are flowering the most right now, but the others will catch up quickly I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Lavender by triciawd, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dragonden\/5886585623\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Lavender\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5236\/5886585623_38b60137ef.jpg\" alt=\"Lavender\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also have several Clematis vines in both my front and back yard garden beds.  This lovely pink\/red clematis flower is one that grows on a trellis at the front of my house.  The plant climbs along the trellis about 12 feet up the wall.  It&#8217;s beautiful when it&#8217;s in bloom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"06262011132 by triciawd, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dragonden\/5887129782\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Red Clematis\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5195\/5887129782_9cb692d4b2.jpg\" alt=\"06262011132\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds--><p>What&#8217;s blooming in your garden this month?  Is your garden just gorgeous right now?  I know I&#8217;m loving mine at this time because I have so many roses in bloom that whenever I walk outside all I smell is lovely old rose fragrance.  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