Gardening with Soule

~”Earth laughs in flowers.”  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

HOLLYHOCKS ~”Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?”  ~Maurice Maeterlinck                                        ~~~~~ Women’s Charlot  from Garden Shoes Onlineclick on image for more info    

 Needed to take some photographs of boots for Best Garden Blogs and couldn’t resist sharing a couple of the REDS with Ruby Tuesday followers.  I am always thrilled to find red accessories or red anything for that matter. So I thought I would share these wonderful reds which are available at Garden shoes Online and Rainbootsonline.  [...]

Last winter, while out on a drive we came upon this wonderful tractor.  And what could be better than an old tractor? An old red tractor.   ~ Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.  ~Palmer Sondreal

Trying to keep the delights of summer in my mind while it is blustery and cold outside.  Today I am thinking red… Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.  ~Author Unknown Visit Ruby Tuesday to see [...]

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. ~Pietro Aretino    

Thunder, our wonderful dog who is an English Setter.  He is showing his holiday spirit in front of our RED front door with it’s RED wreath.  ~”Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”  ~Roger Caras             Check out this photo on Front Porch Ideas and More… Thunder is famous now. 

     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.  [...]

Life is simple, it’s just not easy.  ~Author Unknown   Rednesday

  My wonderful husband brought me a dozen roses yesterday.   What a treat and he didn’t even know I needed an R word for today’s post.    He knows that I am in desperate need of a flower fix now that Jack Frost has stolen them all away from my garden. ~”A single rose can be my [...]