"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what your are. "
Alfred Austin
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Azalea and Bergenia
'Love in bloom'
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Azalea, Trillium, Bergenia
Angelique Tulip
'Spring Green' Tulip
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Tulips and white dwarf Iris
Double tulip
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Tulips
Japanese Painted Fern
Trillium
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Virginia Bluebell, Hosta, Variegated Solomon's Seal,
Sweet Woodruff, Japanese Painted Fern, Geranium, Celandine Poppy,
Lady's Mantle, Trillium, Jacob's Ladder
Trillium and Maiden Hair Fern
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Flowering azalea and fern
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Hosta, Heuchera (Key Lime Pie), and Rhododendron
Budding Rhododendron
Comments
You must be working very hard to have that much beauty in your garden. Those azaleas are gorgeous.
Eileen
I can tell that you are a beautiful, well organized, out going and slightly irreverant(cute frog) by looking at you garden.
Happy May!
kiki~
Stopped by for an entirely different reason than to gush over your amazing eye with the camera :) but here I sit loving every picture in your post...
I saw a recipe contest that seemed soooo perfect for you. Santa Margherita wines is looking for original recipes and wine pairings. I immediately thought of my favorite chef. You should enter! You could shoot the video in your fabulous gardens!
You have so many lovely azaleas in your garden. I've tried several time to grow them with no success. Our soil is quite alkaline and they just don't do well here.
Marnie
Your garden is just breathtaking.
Surely you jest, Scott, but big thanks! You are a master! Life behind the lens is always a joy when we love what we shoot.
Thanks, Rick. A bit of whimsy is good contrast :)
Sweet Beckie, you are a dear, and thank you. Beautiful is never a word one would use if viewing me working in the garden ... a mess, dirt from head to toe, more like it. Now irreverent, I like, and I must admit, I am a bit of a fanatic, both inside and out :)
Thank you, dear Kiki. Come and join me on my chairs and we can enjoy the marvelous colors of spring together!
You are such a sweetheart, Kate, and thanks for pointing me toward this interesting thought. Who knows, perhaps someday ... just crawled out of the kitchen ... lemon thyme cookies (took and hour to gather the little leaves) and Rosemary Pound Cake (Garden Club board meeting while sipping May Wine).
This has been an amazing spring, Marnie, however too warm for my liking ... all that I wait so long for evaporates too fast in the heat. 60s with a soft breeze is great for me ... and much more garden/gardener friendly!
Welcome Sweet Bay and thank you. Yes, this is my garden ... and just part of the whole!
Thanks Nancy ... I have many more loving rhodos coming!
We are blessed, CVF, to be able to grow/tend these lovely plants. Angeliques are a must in my garden so treated as annuals. If I could have one plant, it would the fern ... I have many varieties and love them all ... the one I am looking at or photography is, for the moment, my favorite :)
Hello, dear Kala ... thank you fun camera friend :)
Thank you, Eileen. I must admit I go to bed exhausted this time of year. Thankfully I have Mr. Ho-Hum who takes great pride, both inside and outside, in all that we do.
Thank you, Lindalou. You must call when you are near and see for yourself!
Thank you, KC. Just what I had hoped ... a bit of whimsy! Hope to see you again.
Hope all is well and you had a wonderful Mother's Day!
Love the photo of the bed below the tree. What is planted there?
I have an area in which we took out a large pine, but a maple and another pine remain. It's quite shady in the AM but does get sun in the PM. Hostas, hydrangeas,and vinca ground cover does very well there. Loaded with daffs in the spring!!!! Trilliums are the stars right now. Do you think Rhoddies or azaleas would do well in this area?
But, then again Mother Nature is not too technical!!!