I wanted to put something up while I am away, to get you into the mood for spring and summer...
And thinking FLOWERS ( Say it with Flowers blog hop next week)
And thinking FLOWERS ( Say it with Flowers blog hop next week)
Our garden is flourishing...I had my DH in the garden all weekend, digging and planting more
bushes and flowers...Me, well you can see what I was up to lol
You would think I would grow up...still playing with Barbies for goodness sake....Not happy just to dress them up now, I have to have one on a vespa...Thought you would enjoy some smiles...
I bet that other lady does not have a vespa wink? I know she has the same Barbie...
I bet that other lady does not have a vespa wink? I know she has the same Barbie...
It seems the only time T-cup our main coon does not object to me
taking photos of her is when she is cat napping...
She's on the bench on our deck on the most comfortable spot
she could find all cuddled on her cushions...( writing this early Sat morning)
She stayed there for 2 hours while I was busy taking shots
of the garden...
And as you will note this one Sumatra ( rag doll)
is not camera shy...She still has her winter coat...
I have been brushing her and the hair has been coming out
enough to make her a coat for next winter lol
She is manning my bacopa's which will be planted
in planters this week...
( she is not fat, that is alllllll hair)
When we built our home here 4 years ago. where you see the middle tree,
we had a globe maple. It was a tree we planted in every home we ever lived.. These trees would grow
into a perfect umbrella.. no trimming it just grew like that...
WElll last year, with our frost spell that damaged many fruit trees here on the escarpment,
we lost our tree to a fungus. We tried nursing it but the fungus got to her root ball.
When we purchased it, it was
already 20+ years. So it was a fairly large one!
Our local nursery advised us not to plant a similar tree, in fact we were
to stay away from the family of acers...( all maples) as the soil would still have
the fungus in the soil that would attack all maples... So we decided, ok, I decided
on European Viburnum, it was shaped into a tree....Got 2 of them... they are about 6 feet tall!
One is at the back of the garden, where DH is digging up the whole back
yard to have another 60 x14 feet garden....
Our whole garden has nothing but white flowers ( some people call it a moonlight garden)
...it starts off with our tulips,
all white, then viburnums which are green now, but in a week or so they will be
filled with white popcorn balls ...... our white lilacs are in bloom, our pear trees
had white blossoms, they have already dropped their flowers,
then the peonies will come up,
and the bridal wreaths, and black eyed susans that are all white,
and some climbing hydrangeas as well as snowball hydrangeas...
we even have some award clematis, they too are all white...
all Summer long something white will always be blooming.
WE even found some Italian sunflowers that will grow up to 9 feet tall,
they will be all white too...
we had a globe maple. It was a tree we planted in every home we ever lived.. These trees would grow
into a perfect umbrella.. no trimming it just grew like that...
WElll last year, with our frost spell that damaged many fruit trees here on the escarpment,
we lost our tree to a fungus. We tried nursing it but the fungus got to her root ball.
When we purchased it, it was
already 20+ years. So it was a fairly large one!
Our local nursery advised us not to plant a similar tree, in fact we were
to stay away from the family of acers...( all maples) as the soil would still have
the fungus in the soil that would attack all maples... So we decided, ok, I decided
on European Viburnum, it was shaped into a tree....Got 2 of them... they are about 6 feet tall!
One is at the back of the garden, where DH is digging up the whole back
yard to have another 60 x14 feet garden....
Our whole garden has nothing but white flowers ( some people call it a moonlight garden)
...it starts off with our tulips,
all white, then viburnums which are green now, but in a week or so they will be
filled with white popcorn balls ...... our white lilacs are in bloom, our pear trees
had white blossoms, they have already dropped their flowers,
then the peonies will come up,
and the bridal wreaths, and black eyed susans that are all white,
and some climbing hydrangeas as well as snowball hydrangeas...
we even have some award clematis, they too are all white...
all Summer long something white will always be blooming.
WE even found some Italian sunflowers that will grow up to 9 feet tall,
they will be all white too...
My DH did not think we had enough garden...lol
he decided to dig up back there...where you see the beams on the ground...
as our yard slopes to the forest...( which is till not in full bloom yet,
that tall tree on your right is about 80 feet high...it is always the last
to bloom and the last to drop its leaves in the fall...)
The tree by the red chair is a Beech Nut, it is about 30 feet tall.
The Beams will be in a trench so as not to lose all our triple mix
to the forest....it will act as barrier...So he tells me wink...lol
WE have another Viburnum to plant in there and I have 6 bushes
of snowball hydrangeas and bridal wreath already planted..
I will be scouting when I return for some white annuals...
I am sure I will be able to fill it up within weeks ....
with of course nothing but well you know...
Every home we had we have had white gardens....
I have this thing about 3 colours...in my home, in my quilts
and now my garden....What is with that? lol
Our neighbours always called it a Fairies garden...
I called it Fairies in a Tea Garden, because at night
hundreds of fire flies come and visit the flowers...
It really is a spectacular event...
They look like Fairies coming out for tea!





































