Flowers: May 2010

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Fresh tropical orhid flowers

flowers garden photo gallery

tropical orhid flowers

fantastic summer flowers arrangement for wedding

flowers arrangement for wedding

fantastic summer flowers

summer flowers

fantastic summer flowers arrangement for wedding

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Angelica Flowers Florists

Angelica Flowers

Angelica Flower

Thursday, May 13, 2010

August always gets to be very busy around here. Much of our garden bounty is ready to harvest in August. We spend a lot of time picking, preparing, and preserving food. Sometimes we forget to slow down and enjoy the beauty around us. I am glad I have P to remind me of that. She picks a little bouquet of flowers EVERY time we go to the garden. Luckily she has a long row of flowers to choose from each time.

I like growing things such as fruit trees, raspberries, and rhubarb that come back every year. We are getting our first peaches this year from trees that we planted.

We also get fruit from pear and apple trees that were planted long before we moved here.

This is the time when I start to think about what I want to do differently in the garden next year. What new things do I want to plant? I think about which grew easily and which things are easiest to preserve etc. First on the garden list for next year - picking flowers.

July Flowers in Hot Colors

I have often wondered about the flowers that bloom in July. Why are so many of them orange? I am enjoying them more than usual since July is cool here this year. I usually look out and wish for lots of blue flowers in July. Blue would make things seem cooler. These yellow and orange flowers often make it seem like the yard is fiery hot.

brown eyed susan in our prairie field

butterfly weed in our native prairie field

daylillies -19 years ago we planted one tiny plant on the corner of the outhouse we also have them all along the road in front of the house

poppies - started in a garden but we never know where we will see them each year

lilies - the one area where the deer don't eat them

Yellow in July

Just a quick break from sewing and knitting to share pictures of the cone flowers blooming in our native prairie area that we burned in April.

Rain Covered Blooms and Birds

It rained on and off all day today but I still tried to get out between the raindrops to photograph more first blooms. Here are our first irises.

An early Rose Rugosa bloom,

and one waiting for its own day to bloom.

Candytuft flowers.

The rain and cooler temps kept the birds busy at the feeders. Here a soggy-looking female Downy Woodpecker gets a mouthful of suet, perhaps to take back to the nest.

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