Our Scottish Heather Is Blooming Now

Our Scottish Heather Is Blooming Now

Look At This

Look At This!

Got These Narcissus For Christmas.

When They Came They Were Under Ground In The Pot.

In Less Than A Week They Were18 Inches Tall And In Bloom!

Jack Pulled Up The Yellow Hostas Yesterday

Jack Pulled Up The Yellow Hostas Yesterday

We have had a frost that yellowed our green hostas so Jack pulled up all the yellow hosta leaves yesterday. Don't worry. They will come back up in the spring nice and green. It suddenly is beginning to feel like November with the grey skies and the foggy mornings. Days are getting so short. I admit that that I don't like. I like light. But the days will not gain light until after the winter solstice in late December. By the end of January there should be a little more light at night.

What To Do With The Fallen Leaves

What To Do With The Fallen Leaves

Some folks rake them into piles and then put them in plastic bags. Some folks like Jack use the lawnmower to pick them up and place in the trash cans. Our dear neighbor Dickie whose Dragonquilter blog is down below on the right has a fancy dancy device that sucks up the leaves into an attached bag that can be emptied into the trash cans. Dickie notes on her blog that to her the bummer is that not all the leaves fall at the same time. That means you can get the leaves picked up in some fashion one day and by the next day or week your yard is again filled with fallen leaves. For Jack and I the last trees on our property to lose their leaves are our three Bradford pear trees that are just now approaching full fall color. Two of our neighbors who have a certain type of oak tree, which does not lose its leaves until mid spring when the new leaves emerge from the trees. Now for me that is the real bummer. Picking up the leaves in the fall is one thing but doing it in the spring is no fun at all when you are thinking early spring flowers emerging and blooming.

Our Fall Mums

My August Flowers

My August Flowers

Take A Look.

Crepe Myrtle Tree In Full Bloom

Crepe Myrtle Tree In Full Bloom

My Coneflowers Are Now In Bloom

My Coneflowers Are Now In Bloom

They Bloom For About A Month

Then In August When The Blossoms Turn To Ripe Seeds

Lots Of Beautiful Yellow Finches Will Sit On The Flowers Devouring The Seeds

Our American Wisteria

Our American Wisteria

Our American wisteria is getting its second round of blossoms. It first bloomed in early May with blossoms about four inches long. Now in late June it is blooming for the second time. This time the blossoms are smaller---just two to three inches long. And this past month a pair of mourning doves built a nest in the greenery and raised the two cutest little mourning doves. I got to watch them as they were learning to walk around the swing. It was like watching a pair of human twins learning to toddle and explore.

Monument Fire Update: Our former neighbors in Sierra Vista may now be able to return home. Pueblo del Sol Village I and II has had a controlled ground burn of vegetation around homes the past two days while winds were mild. There is a three mile wide "firewall" now. The Monument Fire is now about 57% contained and they hope that if the mild winds remain they may have the fire totally out by this weekend. The fire has burned close to 30,000 acres and has destroyed over 57 homes, several businesses and many cars.

Three Pics Of My June Garden

Three Pics Of My June Garden

Enjoy

I'm Off For More Chemo

Our Two Little Gem Magnolia Trees Have White Blossoms

Our Two Little Gem Magnolia Trees Now Have White Blossoms

The 90 Degree Days Did The Trick

Wish I Had Smell-A-Blog So You Could Smell The Blossoms

My Flower Gardens On May 28, 2011

The Gardener Trims Up The Climbing Roses

The Gardener Trims Up The Climbing Roses

I purposely didn't trim back this spring the white climbing roses on this black metal arch in our side yard. Big mistake. When the roses bloomed last week the weight became so heavy that the arch began to lean to the right. So my Gardener Jack had to rescue the leaning arch by cutting back the climbing roses. Lots of white roses ended up in our AAA trash bin. It was hard to do but we had to do it. After the roses finish blooming we will give these roses a second trimming.

Never a dull moment around here. First an arch about to capsize from all the blooming roses and then our beautiful robin eggs disappear. Most likely stolen and eaten by a crow or red shouldered blackbird or grackle. Fiddlesticks!

My Peonies Bloomed This Week!

My Peonies Bloomed This Week!

I made lots of bouquets for the kitchen and breakfast room of the peonies that bloomed this week.

The other day I looked outside my breakfast room window to the far left and saw a hummingbird gulping down hummingbird food from the feeder.

I then looked over to the far right window and discovered momma robin was sitting on two eggs in a nest in my white climbing rose bush near the patio. It has been so much fun to watch her sitting on her nest and guarding her two eggs. I wonder how long it will be till the eggs hatch?

Below is another peonie bouquet on the kitchen island. The blue flowers are catmint.

Last Sunday's Pics Taken By Daughter Jeanine

Last Sunday's Pics Taken By Daughter Jeanine

Last Sunday daughter Jeanne came home for a visit and I handed her my little Sony camera and asked her to some pics of what was in bloom in my flower gardens. Here's what she saw and shot.