My husband and went to Ithaca, NY on our anniversay last week. We love to go and sit near the willow trees on the side of Cayuga lake and take in the beautiful view. While we were there we decided to visit the Cornell Plantations. It is a part of Cornell University which includes a 25-acre botanical [...]
Arlena Schott told us the National Garden Bureau named the Zinnia the flower of the year for 2011. She is having a Zinnia photo contest on her GardenWiseLiving FB page so I decided to take a look through my photos. It made me realize just how many zinnia pics I have, so here are a few since [...]
There are so many different flowers. I even had a tomato that turned red. Unfortunately, the critters that live amongst us decided it would be great fun to pick, take a bite or two and leave in the dirt to rot. I am not sure if it’s squirrels or chipmunks. Devils, I ‘d say. They [...]
This is an amaryllis blooming. It caught the afternoon light just perfect. This is one of my favorite photos that I have taken. Visit Gardening Gone Wild’s Picture This Photo Contest to see the other entries.
To spite our crazy weather here in upstate NY, plenty of flowers are starting to show themselves. One day it’s hot~ like 80 degrees, and the next it’s in the 30′s. There’s been a lot of wind and rain as well. The last couple of days have been rainy but not really cold so the whole garden [...]
Here are a few more of the pictures I found last week in my husband’s grandfather’s trunk. The girl on the right is my husband’s grandmother in 1917. They have such nice gardens in these photos, I wish they were in color so I could see the hydrangeas. What are these girls up to here? [...]
If you are looking for a way to grow plants that’s easy on the eyes and the budget, consider container gardening. It is a great way to accent plants in your yard, deck, porch or garden. Containers are a great to keep herbs in or near your kitchen. You can even keep lettuce growing in a pot so [...]
I couldn’t resist this subject. I had a few pictures that work, so here they are. ~”But each spring…a gardening instinct, sure as the sap rising in the trees, stirs within us. We look about and decide to tame another little bit of ground.” -~Lewis Gantt Visit TNchick for photohunter [...]
Everyone is ready for springtime and that was very apparent at the Philadelphia Flower Show. So instead of more snow pictures I will share a few more of the sights I saw there last Friday. This is what I wish my outdoor Wednesday looked like. But it still looks the same outdoors here, even though our [...]
Dahlias are great flowers that give such pleasure with their different colors and constant blooms. They are tubers that bloom in the summer and grow well in full sun. They are hardy in zones 7 – 11. If you live where it gets very cold, you have to dig them up after the first killing frost and store [...]
