Ruminations

  Spider Lilies Water Lilies   These photos were taken at Mercer Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. 

More beauty from the gardens.   I loved the Oak Leafed Hydrangeas and want to add some to my garden!   Painted Lady Butterf...

Still basking in the beauty of the gardens.

I took some pictures of the flowers in our butterfly garden. The salvias were lovely but have faded with the heat. Fortunately there is plen...

Oh my, Spring has arrived and my garden is in shambles. I never even got around to pruning the roses much less ordering any new roses. JMM...

My sweet DH spent the morning shoveling cow manure to be composted for my roses. One of the good things about having a cow pasture just an ...

We have had the hottest, driest summer I can remember--and I've seen a lot of them, LOL. Today is the first 24 hours that we have not h...

My Day Breaker roses have survived this hot, dry summer with blooms almost all summer. It has meant almost daily watering and trimming but ...

Tomatoes and bell peppers, that's what!! We planted 4 varieties of tomatoes. I usually have good luck with cherry tomatoes so we have ...

It is beginning to look like spring! I am certainly ready for it because I am tired of being cold. I love my house but it is the coldest h...

JMM is finally catching some of my interest in vegetable gardening!! He put up trellises for sugar snap peas and got them planted this morn...