Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 9:17 am Post subject: My Garden Photos
The Beauty in My Garden
I would like to share with you a few of the photos that I have taken this year of my garden. I am not an accomplished photographer by any means but I do have an eye for the beauty growing around me in my garden refuge. I have been a gardener for what seems like forever in my life and have always gotten great joy in raising many different kinds of plants in my garden. Many of the plants I raise have come from friends over the years and it is a delight to me to enjoy the plants that still carry the names of the original owners in my memory.
Through the years, I have tried to label the plants that I raise with the right "common names" that they bear. (I have never mastered the propernames however. I have pretty much given up on that effort.
Too many things can happen to destroy labels and I think I have experienced most of them. Thererfore, most of my pictures will NOT tell you the proper names but will bear a simple title such as, ROSE, etc.. I have never mastered the art of learning the proper botanical names. I did try but must admit that I was a miserable failure at doing that. :)
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My Japanese Red Maple is one of my favorite trees. It adorns the area next to the driveway in my front yard.
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The Honeysuckle that wraps itself around my mailbox provides nectar for the hummingbirds. I love to watch them from my living room window as they dart to and fro partaking of the nectar that it provides.
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The beautiful old White Dogwood in my neighbor's yard. It has been there for many years and I always love viewing it in the spring when it puts on its spring dress of lovely white flowers.
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This is the Orange Pyracantha that is under my bedroom window. Judging from the many blooms that it had this spring, it should be full of berries later on this year.
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Years ago I thought that Hybrid Tea roses were the grandest of roses. Althought I still love them, I have stopped planting them and as they die off I don't cry over them. (At least I have never resorted to shovel pruning them....Not yet anyway!) They require a LOT of work and these days it just isn't worth the trouble to me to do it all. We still fertilize them and faithfully spray them for black spot. I don't dead-head them often like I once did nor do I pick off each and every diseased leaf as I so painstakingly did for so many years. The David Austin roses are not as much trouble to raise and I recommend them over Hybrid Teas for busy people.
Over thirty years ago my college student daughter went to a friends's house, dug a shoot of this old fashioned rose and gave it to me for Mother's Day. This rose blooms faithfully for me every Mother's Day and gives me new joy each and every year. It is truly the gift that keeps on giving.
Other favorite plants in my garden Butter and Eggs Click to see full size image Dusty Miller Click to see full size image Dwarf Bamboo Click to see full size image Shasta Daisy Click to see full size image Lamb's Ear with Dwarf Bamboo Click to see full size image Money Plant Click to see full size image
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