DixieDreamer
05-23-2002, 09:46 PM
<center>The weather has been cool and gloomy, but the garden is growing nonetheless. I posted on the POTW thread that my favorite for last week had to be my bearded iris. They were just beginning to bloom last week - and the first splash of color was really doing my heart good. This week the "BLUES" have arrived in the patio garden and the iris has hit the height of their display.
As you can see, the patio garden is mostly blue flowers right now - with the exception of the iris and the very few coral bells that are starting to bloom. Cranesbill geraniums and spiderwort are the highlight blue plants. Soon to bloom will be the pink shrub roses.
http://www.lyonfamilywdw.com/2002photos/garden/GARDEN052202_1.jpg
The Cranesbill geraniums - Johnson's Blue. These are very hardy plants and the blue is a beautiful shade. What I like about them... is the flowers seem to float over the rather lacy looking foilage.
http://www.lyonfamilywdw.com/2002photos/garden/GARDEN052202_2.jpg
The spiderwort is prolific and will continue blooming from now on until the hard frosts of fall. The only fault I can give these wonderful plants is that they are invasive and will readily spread... and often they will require some support or a shearing by midsummer.
http://www.lyonfamilywdw.com/2002photos/garden/GARDEN052202_5.jpg
But the real beauties right now are the iris. :) Nothing like a stand of flowers to awaken the joy in your heart.
http://www.lyonfamilywdw.com/2002photos/garden/GARDEN052202_3.jpg
http://www.lyonfamilywdw.com/2002photos/garden/GARDEN052202_4.jpg
I love to sit on my patio on summer mornings before work, sipping my coffee, listening to my water fountain and the mourning doves cooing in the fields... and savoring the show that the garden provides each and every day. Always changing.. yet comforting in it's constancy.
Wish you all could join me.
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As you can see, the patio garden is mostly blue flowers right now - with the exception of the iris and the very few coral bells that are starting to bloom. Cranesbill geraniums and spiderwort are the highlight blue plants. Soon to bloom will be the pink shrub roses.
http://www.lyonfamilywdw.com/2002photos/garden/GARDEN052202_1.jpg
The Cranesbill geraniums - Johnson's Blue. These are very hardy plants and the blue is a beautiful shade. What I like about them... is the flowers seem to float over the rather lacy looking foilage.
http://www.lyonfamilywdw.com/2002photos/garden/GARDEN052202_2.jpg
The spiderwort is prolific and will continue blooming from now on until the hard frosts of fall. The only fault I can give these wonderful plants is that they are invasive and will readily spread... and often they will require some support or a shearing by midsummer.
http://www.lyonfamilywdw.com/2002photos/garden/GARDEN052202_5.jpg
But the real beauties right now are the iris. :) Nothing like a stand of flowers to awaken the joy in your heart.
http://www.lyonfamilywdw.com/2002photos/garden/GARDEN052202_3.jpg
http://www.lyonfamilywdw.com/2002photos/garden/GARDEN052202_4.jpg
I love to sit on my patio on summer mornings before work, sipping my coffee, listening to my water fountain and the mourning doves cooing in the fields... and savoring the show that the garden provides each and every day. Always changing.. yet comforting in it's constancy.
Wish you all could join me.
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