WIP Wednesday: The Garden

The Jungle I call my garden

By this time of year, my garden gets out of control. I am pleased just to be able to mow the lawn and harvest all my lovely vegetables. It has not rained since I got back from England so weeding is impossible because the ground is so hard. If you don’t look too closely, it does look lovely:

Elephant Ear and Rudbeckia

And there are some lovely surprises (I thought I planted fragrant gladioli which is white):

Red Gladiolius

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As always photos are Copyright © 2008 CDavies.

Friday Flowers

Sunflower

Here are more pictures of flowers from my garden. If I ignore the weeds, it is looking very pretty at the moment. Actually even the weeds are looking pretty

Queen Anne's Lace

I need the food to ripen.  Both tomatoes and blackberries are this close to being ready.  Sigh.

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Longwood Gardens

Last Thursday I went to Longwood Gardens with Lisa.  This is my first visit there for about 18 months.  It was a great time to visit as the Mediterranean Garden in the Conservatory was in full bloom.  I have never seen it looking so pretty.

There were even Birds of Paradise in flight

More pictures of the gardens can be found at flickr in my Longwood Garden Set.

Carpenter Bee

Perhaps I should have saved this lady for “I is for…insect” but I wanted to share her with you. There are lots of carpenter bees buzzing around my garden. This one stopped for a rest on my Trex deck - no nest building here for you buddy.  Fortunately, in my garden there are lots of wooden fences and raised beds in which she can create a home.

Please fertilize my flowers well.

H is for…

Honesty.

The plant, not the behavior*. The plant Lunaria biennes is also called moon plant and money plant because the seed pods look like both money and the moon.

I also have purple honesty:

Which puts a new light on “purple prose” if taken literally.

Honesty is a self seeding biennial. I have them every year because sometimes they manage to flower in the year that they germinate. Confusion reigns.

*Although honesty as human characteristic is good.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread. ~Josh Billings

Spring Flowers 8

Nooo, not another one. How many daffodil types can one person have in their garden?

Well I did purchase one of these collections.

Any more?

Wait and see..

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Spring Flowers 7

Another two-toned daffodil. Wait, there are more…

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Spring Flowers 6

When I posted those daffodil pictures earlier this week, I had not noticed that I have at least three more two-colored daffodils. In fact I have more multicolored daffodils than I have singles.

And, alas, no rainbow colored daffodil has appeared in my garden yet.

Spring Flower 5

As promised this is the third type of two-colored daffodil in my garden.

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Spring Flower 4

I have three different sorts of two colored daffodils. There are the ones I showed yesterday and these tiny little flowers are slightly larger than a quarter. The third sort will be up tomorrow.

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