It has been one of those gorgeous weeks and the weekend has also been great. Temperatures just up to the 80’s. Blue Blue skies and cool in the evening. We started Saturday with a trip to Sky Nursery to see … Continue reading →
Echinacea ‘Julia’ We are having a long stretch of near record dry hot weather. Our garden is starting to show the effects along with keeping G busy watering. I am actually loving it even though the first couple of days … Continue reading →
Less than a mile from Schreiner’s Iris Gardens is Adelman Peony Gardens. They have a wonderful small display garden. We visited on May 31st which is mid-season but some of the best blooms seemed to already be over. We did … Continue reading →
I have always had a soft spot for bearded iris. They were my mother’s favorites. “Flags” is what she called them. She would get so excited when we came across someone who was giving a bunch of rhizomes away. We … Continue reading →
There was a slight break in the rain and wind so I took a quick walk around the garden. It was gray and dark so I decided to use one of my old fixed-length lenses which was fun and different. … Continue reading →
We are in that holding waiting pattern – waiting for the first serious freeze. It can come any time from mid-October. One year just before Halloween, we had several hard freezes. The salvia bed in the picture above looked like … Continue reading →