Gardening with Soule

 The subject is “The Gardener’s Intent”.
 In my entry, I am trying to convey what I love most about my  yard and gardens. ~ They are enjoyed. 

 I took the picture earlier this summer and I thought it fit the bill, at least for my garden.  The setting sun gives our fire pit area a spotlight, and the young fire [...]

 It’s mid July, time to see what’s going on in our gardens for Garden Blogger’s Bloomsday.  It’s also Fertilizer Friday!

I have a lot blooming,

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so it makes it hard to believe my yard and gardens are showing the stress of very little rain
and extremely high temperatures.
   My grass is brown in spots

and some of my plants have given in to the [...]

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
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Last week I took a little drive to meet my blogging friends.Â
~It’s true, the people we talk to on blogs don’t just live in the internet.  They are real.    ~  Donalyn Ketchum ( dlynz.com ), Kathy Purdy(Cold Climate Gardening), Jenn Fowler (Frugal upstate), and myself do our best to  meet up every month to have lunch and talk face [...]

away today after yesterday’s soaking rain.Â
 My plants seem to have given a sigh of relief now that they have had a good long drenching.Â
  We could use even more rain but I keep hoping it doesn’t choose Saturday to give it to us.  I am throwing a baby shower brunch and rain is not invited.Â
 This [...]

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These are the scenes in my back yard.Â
 I love just sitting and looking at it all, that is when I am not working, or should I say playing in it.

~’Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes!”~
William Wordsworth
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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 It’s hard to believe a year has gone by since the first time I posted this blog.  I have met so many kind and encouraging people that share the same passion~Gardening. Â
  The year mark has made me look back and compare my garden to one year ago and even back to when we bought this house 3 [...]

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Working in my garden today, I was taken back by the lovely scent of lilacs.Â
 Their delicate fragance floats in the air in little wisps that catch your attention.
  They are such pretty flowers in shades of purple, periwinkle and white.Â
 I have planted many lilacs in the 3 years since we bought this house, just for that small [...]

This past week, my husband and I got the materials to make our raised beds for the vegetable garden.Â
On Friday we stained them with deck stain(matches our decks and porches). On Saturday he dodged the snowflakes and raindrops and put them together. Today, I dug up weeds and leveled the soil where we are going to place them.Â
While [...]