You all know how much I like taking pictures of what's blooming around my house. Well, a funny thing happened on my way to take pictures the last couple of months-I got distracted by construction. I finally made it out into the yard this morning for some photos and below are my passel of posy pictures. :)
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| Spirea |
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| Oak-leaf hydrangea |
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| Zinnia's that the rabbits have been enjoying. |
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| Lantana |
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| Vinca. In the upper left, you can see part of the fig tree. |
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| Day Lilies. |
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| Black-eyed Susans. You can see where the Japanese beetles are eating the petals. They eat the coneflower petals, too. |
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| Coneflower |
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| Four O'clocks. Later this afternoon, say around 4 o'clock, these will be in full bloom. |
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| Bachelor's Button. Notice the pollen sacs of the back legs of the bee. |
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| The allium are ready to burst into full bloom. |
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| The row of begonias along our front walk do great every year. Not only do they provide good color, they require essentially no maintenance. |
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| This lone azalea bloom is about two months behind the others. |
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| Dianthus. Most of these are suffering from the heat. |
Until next time...
How pretty they all are! Always enjoy seeing pictures of what people grow since we don't grow anything here (ourselves, I'm sure others grow flowers and the like) and most of the people in our neighborhood have xeriscape for landscape. Such a nice plethora of flowers you have!
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I enjoy seeing what other people grow, too, especially in climates that are different than mine.
DeleteI agree that it's fun to see what people grow in different climates. That's the fascinating part about travel--if everything looked like it does where you live, why bother going? :)
ReplyDeleteI grow begonias, too, for similar reasons. Very colorful and very little work on my part.
Your title made me think of my dad. He would mention getting "posies" to give to my mom. Thanks for a sweet memory.
We're trying vinca in a couple areas this year. We'll see how they do as the season gets hotter and drier, but we may be using them again next year because you also get a big bang with them. But the begonias are our old faithfuls.
DeleteThat is a nice memory of your parents. And posy does have a sweet connotation to it now that you mention it.
Those are beautiful, especially the lantana.
ReplyDeleteI just looked and there are two more blooms on the lantana that weren't there before. When we lived in TX, lantana survived the winters and grew quite big. Here it's an annual.
DeleteThat's funny, about the four oclocks. Not the Japanese beetles this year, doing all the damage--earwigs! I have day lilies blooming too. My mother loved them, and we'd do a count everyday on how many bloomed.
ReplyDeleteI like that your mother and you counted how many lilies bloomed each day. I think the blooms on day lilies are stunning, but as soon as the weather gets warm all of the green leaves turn an unsightly brown. I don't like that part so much.
DeleteWhat pretty flowers! Oh, but, the poor zinnia! Those rabbits don't leave much when they decide to dine on the plants, do they? Your lantana looks nice and fresh; mine are all withered and look half dead. That row of begonias are lovely, too; I've tried growing them, but, they don't grow so well for me. I don't have many flowers in my garden, currently, so it was a joy to see the ones growing in your garden. :)
ReplyDeleteI have zinnias in another spot in the yard and the rabbits did the same thing to those. However, those died before they had a chance to revive. Something else has been snipping of stems of the petunias without eating them and have killed several plants. I assume it was birds. Now we have a chipmunk who seems to be taking a bite out of everything. He especially likes roots. And the deer like tomato plants and have eaten the top out of most of them. But all of God's creatures have to eat, too, I guess.
DeleteI agree all God's creatures have to eat, but this year my yard seems to be their buffet table. The addition of the groundhog has really increased the amount of dinner damage and we have found he really likes green beans.
ReplyDeleteSo far, the ground hogs haven't made it into the yard. Although, it's probably just a matter of time. We had a lot of them at our old house. Have you thought about trapping them and relocating?
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