I’ve been waiting for the peonies to bloom for the last couple of weeks. In past years, once the peonies begin to open up, a big storm hits (rain, high winds, the works) and the petals fall to the ground. The weather states it’ll be clear for the next few days so maybe, just maybe the flowers will stick around for longer.
Flashback to summer days a few years ago, when the sunflowers stretched into the clear blue sky and competed with the sun.
I’ve pulled together all of my favorite garden photos that I’ve taken over the years and put them in a book. The book includes lots of photos of tulips, hydrangeas, roses, and vegetables looking their best as well as some gardening tips.
It’s available for Kindle and on good old fashioned paper on Amazon. Click here to buy.
My favorite part of spring is seeing all the flowers I had forgotten I planted. I saw these coming up in the same bed that I have garlic. Thanks to the huge clean out of my greenhouse, I had no idea what they were. So, I Google image searched it and came up with Geissorhiza. Who knew?
Last year was super busy so I wasn’t able to post as often as I should have. However, the blooms don’t stop in the garden. Here are some of my favorites from 2019.
These roses bloomed in early January, a welcome surprise in the new year. I can’t remember the name of the rose; it’s one I purchased at a grocery store. It reliably bloomed all last year. The hip is from another rose in the garden. Typically, I harvest the hips and keep them in a baggie in the freezer. When I bake or make jam, I take some out and crush them, and then add them to the recipe.
This is one of my favorite times of year, when the lemon trees explode with fruit. I only have two small trees, yet I get a huge bucketful of lemons every winter. Enough to make several bottles of limoncello and lemonade.
