Gardening with Soule

 When I think of Hydrangeas I think of old fashioned gardens.Â
To me, they spell romance and warm summer days.Â
Mine are all very young  but I was able to get enough to fill a vase  this year.Â
 It ended up in my bedroom.Â
It is so fulfilling to see flowers from your own garden right before you fall asleep and as soon as [...]

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The temperatures are in the high 90’s to low 100’s here for the past week or so.Â
The heat is one thing, but the humidity makes it so hard to breathe. 

It’s hard to find a spot that is cool to stay in unless you are in front of an air conditioner.
  Although most of my plants [...]

There are so many different flowers.Â
I even had a tomato that turned red.Â
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.Â
 I am not sure if it’s squirrels or chipmunks.
Devils, I ‘d say.  They have pulled up [...]

I  had a bunch of fun taking pictures today for this post.Â
There are so many colors to take in right now.Â
Just when I think how sad it is that a certain flower is done blooming,
 another steps up and takes it’s place.
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This lily is so bright and vibrant
   …and huge!  Â
 My rose “hot cocoa” has begun to [...]

My husband and I took a drive last Friday.Â
 We stopped along the Delaware River and had a picnic.Â
 He is an avid fly fisherman so we stopped to see some of his fishing spots.Â
It was such a pretty place.Â
We saw an eagle’s nest as well as a cow or two.
 The purple phlox were everywhere as well [...]

This is my favorite time of year.Â
 There are so many colors and fragances.

I thought I would give bigger views this week of what’s blooming here.
There’s plenty to see.Â
The bees and the birds have been very busy this week.  It’s nice to see all the activity in the yard.Â
I have a chipmunk in my garden [...]

  The sun was shining and it got to be 80 degrees today, with a nice breeze.

 Perfect garden weather. 

There was so much to photograph. 

 It was hard to choose only a few of them for this post.

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Hopefully nice weather is here to stay.  

~Who would have thought it possible that a tiny little flower
could preoccupy a person so completely [...]

There is a lot of blooming going on right now.
 Tulips, daffodils and pansies along with lilacs are all lovely smiling for the camera.
There’s a lot of color.
As well as white.

There is nothing like spring time.Â
~How can one help shivering with delight when one’s hot fingers close around the stem of a live flower, cool [...]

Yesterday was a hot sunny day.  Great for putting in our raised vegetable beds, finally.Â
 We were able to put them in place, fill one of them and put a few plants in that can stand some cold weather. (pretty sure there will be more of that to come.)
I planted some lettuce and snap peas for now. Of [...]

 

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