Gardening with Soule

       ~”The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.”  ~Gertrude S. Wister  

Violet.  My most favorite flower of all!  ~“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”~ Mark Twain

 Gardening is something that just about anyone can do.  Children to older folks can participate and there is no right or wrong way to do it, just easier and harder. It gives us something in common with people we meet. It connects us with those that made us aware of the pleasure it can bring.  It is [...]

     Amaryllis are the easiest of flowering bulbs to bloom.  It’s botanical name is Hippastrume and it is now a popular Christmas time flower that originated in South American tropical regions.  They are not winter hardy bulbs but they are fun to force in the wintertime to have holiday blooms.  They always seem like a Christmas flower to me.  [...]

~”When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.”  ~Chinese Proverb

 Gardening by the moon is an age old practice.  Since the moon controls ocean tides, it is believed that it influences the groundwater tables beneath our feet and the movement of fluids in plants.  This is why planting at a certain phase and harvesting at a certain phase is supposedly beneficial.  These photos I took of [...]

 Nothing new in my garden this week, just the typical fall flowers, like sedum and mums,  but there’s plenty of fall colors like the nasturtium and marigolds with their bright orange color. And speaking of color, we took a drive and the Leaves seem to have turned over night into the blazing oranges, reds and yellows of autumn. [...]

Although many of my plants are giving a wonderful dose of color to the garden,  I can’t help but enjoy a few of my pots that are bursting with color also.     I have had a few casualties due to the heat this summer, but most have not only survived, but also thrived in the heat.  Container gardening can [...]

Here are a few blooms from my garden this week!   There is so much color everywhere it’s hard to choose which  one I like the most.  What do you think? ~”I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” -   L. M. Montgomery   Visit bloomin [...]

~Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?  ~Maurice Maeterlinck visit lisa’s chaos for Macro Monday