Showing posts with label clematis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clematis. Show all posts

First Day of Summer

He spent the morning weeding and trimming in our beds this morning.
 This clematis is hidden from view from our house, so it wasn't until he sent in the phot
from is cell phone's camera that I realized it was blooming!
 A major chore was accomplished with the trimming of The Three Sisters
as we've come to call these three viburnum bushes growing along our property line.
For better or for worse, this is how we've been trimming them.
Somehow it appeals to us, but the look requires periodic "pedicures"!
In another part of our yard sits this potted tomato plant.
We are very inexperienced in the vegetable-cultivation department.
Maybe that explains our excitement over finding FOUR tomatoes on the vine last Saturday.
Why in the world have we not done this sooner???

It's OUR Turn

Seems everything is a little slower on our property....
but it finally IS our turn to bloom!
We had really cut back these rose bushes along side one side of our sleeping cabin out back...
My!  How they bloom...

Clematis Time!

Yes!  It's Clematis Time!
 And the single Spirea bush we have is showing brilliant colors, too.
Our yard has a way to go before it reaches the beauty of one
we saw on a House and Garden Walk Saturday.
Just look at it!
 I wish you could hear the lovely music piped into this charming place.
 It was hard to leave,
but finally we exited on this rose-lined, brick path.
We returned home with ideas and  plans to implement in OUR yard--
like the wood benches below.  I just LOVE them!
 Have you been on a Garden Walk this season?

While I was Away

 While I was retreating near New Haven, Kentucky
enjoying the beauty of the mountains and the Abbey of Gethsemani,
our rose bushes back home were going BONKERS!
 The clematis, too, are beginning their show!  
What a spring it has been for flowers.

the Last Day of May 2012

The state of the yard/flower beds
this morning....

It's Very Dry Here...

We REALLY need rain!  This poor clematis bloomed....but just barely.
There's not even rain in the rain barrels!

Coming and Going

 While I was visiting this little guy who is fighting a 
 nasty rhinovirus,
 things in our yard and flowerbeds were coming and going!
 The roses are coming on strong.  The bushes are covered with blossoms.

 Soon the clematis will be out in full, colorful force, too!
 The iris are saying their good-byes...
 at the same time the lavender says, "Hello!"
From the comfort of our newly refurbished swing/glider
I take in the sights of the peony's "coming"
 the flowering of  its neighbors in the flower bed...
 
 and the "going" of the stone path, newly cleared of its weeds.
 What beautiful weather we are enjoying!
A rain would be welcomed just about now...

A Reluctant and Temporary Farewell

to early hosta flower...
first flower on last clematis vine to bloom...
spiderwort (that was shutting down for the evening)...
always the roses...
blossoms on unknown tree (too late for dogwood, I think)...
messy mulberry tree...
and unexpected iris, transplanted earlier after my North Carolina brother
gifted me with it...

Yesterday while my husband mowed the lawn, I cut back the dead leaves of early bulb flowers, divided and transplanted a bleeding heart bush, weeded various beds, and filled in parts of the new bed behind the shed with rocks and aanother transplanted hosta and a Rose of Sharon bush.

Tomorrow morning I'll leave for a week at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky.  Rumor has it that I won't have cell phone or internet access, so it appears I won't be able to transmit news or photos of the lovely scenery I will be enjoying.    I reluctantly leave our yard and garden but know they're in my good husband's capable hands.  I'll update Scene in our Garden when I return.

In the Cool of the Day

...the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day...Genesis 3:8
This bush was full of buds this morning!  If you recognize it, I'd sure appreciate knowing what it is!  The full bush is to the left on the photo below...
Beardstooth (above and below) is one of my husband's favorite plants.
 
Other sights around our yard include a pair of these large wrought iron candle holders...the washtub hanging on our cabin, a double-heart wind chime,
these chairs that never seem to weather themselves out...
and a few more miscellaneous items....
I couldn't resist taking yet another picture of the clematis - flowers vying with unopened blossoms for space on their support.
How about this for clutter?  This area is beside our garage.  It has been too wet to do much here.
Well, that's my excuse anyway.  Looks like the Lamb's Ear is about ready to flower.
Now--to the work while it is still cool enough to do it!