This blog is about my garden and the outdoors. I am new to photography but I am trying to show some of the pretty things that grow here in Michigan. I love the wild things who visit me and I dont mind if they eat a bit here and there. I like it more if they let me take their picture. As time goes on I think I will try to show you around the beautiful area that I live in as well as my garden. I try to use my own pictures as much as possible but will also use pictures from the web. If I inadvertently use your photo or work without permission please email me and I will remove it or give credit if you prefer. I will give credit when I know who the owner is. I would ask that anyone using my pictures do the same.
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Sunday, June 14, 2015

Just a few blooms.......................

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I keep taking pictures of those Granny Bonnets that are not really the same as the old fashioned ones. They are so pretty.
Some of my flowering shrubs are beginning to bloom. I have some with green leaves and some with dark leaves
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I like the Poppies too, they are doing better this year. I am hoping they will continue to spread
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I do fill in with pots of annuals
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The Painted daisy is doing Ok in the spot I found for it. The others I will know soon if they survived winter
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I put this Clematis in next to the other one. That has not bloomed yet but looks as though it will soon. maybe they will encourage each other????
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The Iris are not coming out en masse but one at a time here and there
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So when a bloom breaks off I put it in a glass jar and let it finish off its life still looking pretty
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Well I can also supplement with ornaments here and there. A couple of new ones
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So day by day the garden will change and I will record it. I remember my Dad's garden. Mine is nothing like his. His seemed to bloom all summer things did not have to hurry like they do in Michigan. The growing season is so short here. They bloom and are gone in two days. I would love to find things that would bloom all summer. The closest to that is the good old Day lilly but they have not began yet.
So far we have had rain enough and cool enough to keep things growing and lush. Once it heats up that will change.

3 comments:

Craftymoose Crafts said...

Hi, Just stopping by to say how much I enjoyed both this and your Hosta post. Besides the peonies, I am still waiting for my flowers to bloom here, so it was nice seeing some of yours.

Craftymoose Crafts said...

Hi, Just stopping by to say how much I enjoyed both this and your Hosta post. Besides the peonies, I am still waiting for my flowers to bloom here, so it was nice seeing some of yours.

Merlesworld said...

So nice to see flowers not many around here but it is the middle of winter.
Merle................