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| Daisy Lou |
Making sure I’m planting those seeds right!
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Chain Saw Sculpture
Today we went to Starved Rock Lodge to look for fall foliage.
There were bits of color here and there but not much to speak of yet.
So instead I’ll share some chainsaw sculptures carved out of dead trees trunks.
Theses are all still rooted in the ground
Lazy Sunday
I’m going to be lazy today and just post some blooms and plants without too many comments.
We finally got the rain we were waiting for
and it has cooled off a bit,
and it has cooled off a bit,
so rather than sit here and do a lot of writing,
I’m going to go out and enjoy the rest of the day….
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| Self sown Echinacea or Coneflower |
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| Blackberry Lily finally bloomed |
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| More self sown coneflowers ( I’ve got these everywhere) |
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| Diablo Ninebark ~ Physocarpus opulifolius ~ newer leaves on stem tips |
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| older leaves |
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| Gazania Daisy |
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| Blanket Flower ~ Gaillardia |
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| new buds on blanket flower |
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| Portulaca grandiflora |
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| Honeysuckle reblooming ~ Dropmore Scarlet |
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| Wormwood ~ Artemisia absinthum |
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| ARTEMISIA ‘SILVER BROCADE’ |
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| Lambs ear doing well |
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| second round on the Kmart rose |
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| Wha’cha doing mom? |
Summer Flowers, Grapes & Labrador Proofing
The first day of summer is almost upon us
and the flowers continue to bloom in my garden…
……as I spend all my time in the Garden Center! (sigh…)
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| I don’t care what anybody says about spirea! I love my little spirea! It blooms with abandon in almost dense shade and does very well in the dry sandy soil against my house… |
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| A closeup |
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| and a little sunlight |
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| Another itsy bitsy spider… Very hard to get the auto focus on the camera to fix on this. I think it took about ten minutes to get this shot! |
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| Dappled light on the Pachysandra |
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| A perennial Geranium called “Splish Splash” |
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| Also a mail order plant of several years ago…. |
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| More Blooms on my dark pink clematis |
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| The House Bunn’s veggie barrel ~ celery, Kale, oakleaf lettuce & seedlings, Cos lettuce, tiny thumbelina carrot sprouts on the left (very tiny right now) and red and white Swiss Chard sprouts on the right (also very tiny). Our Bunns are very spoiled rabbits…. |
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| Butterfly weed or asclepias tuberosa ~ also started from seed a long time ago. It’s almost ready to bloom. |
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| A Heliopsis or False Sunflower I planted from seed several years ago,,, from this one planting in my front yard, is has reseeded itself all over my backyard…. But I love it and so do the yellow finches! |
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| A metal butterfly I painted and attached to my arbor…. |
And in the vegetable garden….
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| GRAPES! I have grapes! Yay! This is one of two grape vines on my back fence. This one here is a seedless Red Reliance |
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| And this one is a green seedless~ I will have to go out and look at the tag on it because I can’t remember the variety at this moment… Both of these came from Dan & Jerry’s Green house five years ago… Last year was the first year it had grapes and I’m glad to see them producing again. |
….and finally, the Labrador proofing!
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| I got my garden in ‘very’ late this year (I’m so embarrassed!) because every day off I had, it was pouring down rain! So last week it was finally nice enough to get out and till, compost and plant! The chicken wire is to keep my black Lab, Annie out because she ate the entire garden last year! Yes, everything! Even the strawberry plants! This dog’s number one hobby is eating! |
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| Sure… She’s all sweet and innocent now~ but as soon as your back is turned…. |
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My Helper
Hey! Hey! Hey Mom!
You dropped your water bottle!
By the way, I opened it for you!
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Happy May Day!
May 1st arrived bright and sunny!
Even if the temperatures only made it to 55 degrees
and it sprinkled later in the afternoon!
To celebrate,
here are a few more pictures of what’s blooming in my garden.
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| Bleeding heart, Dicentra spectabilis |
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| The tart cherry is finally fully bloomed! |
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| Even Daisy was enjoying the sun! |
Hard Times…….
Money’s getting a little tight around here.
When Daisy heard that we were going to cut back on her dog treats, she went out and got a job!
“Would you like to see the new spring line of lipstick colors?”
Daisy Lou
What cha’ got there mom?
A new camera?
W – O – O – F
The roses are blooming & so are the Daisy’s
(for those who can’t read dog lips- she said “woof”)
the rose is a “Jeanne Lajoie“, a miniature climber
it gets ten feet tall
Lil's Garden Tour 