For years I have wanted to do a Valentine tree. This year I finally did! I also did a lot of dining room decorating. I also love vin...

Wow, I am loving this new-to-me ligularia! I liked it before it bloomed with only the huge dark leaves: But I am really wowed now with tho...

Just a few pictures so I can remember what was in bloom during July and early August. July 2 Loosestrife & Goatsbeard More Loosest...

I am loving the yellow pops of color from the two spirea Goldstrom in the distance This false cypress mophead echoes the same golden hue: ...

What a difference new gardening boots make after wearing Crocs for a decade—no more dirty feet! My 2022 Garden Season Begins!

I have thoroughly enjoyed my deck and gardens this year and I am not ready for it to end! I took a few pics to remember the abundance of ru...

This one is in glorius bloom and most afternoons I sit in my glidder directly opposite and watch a humming bird flit throughout it. The hum...

Snowflake is a very small dahlia, known as a pom pom dahlia. In this container I have it growing with the larger ball dahlia called Jowey Ma...

 I spent a good deal of time and effort last fall dividing and rearranging many of my perennials to achieve larger swaths of color.  I am li...

I recently moved 3 other Limelight hydrangeas to the opposite side of this one  that just began blooming.  I moved them all during the past ...

 I have saved this container of red geraniums in my basement for the past five years.  It started blooming last week and it did not disappoi...

 I have my deck containers planted with mostly dahlias, calla lilies and canna lilies.  The calla lilies bloom first and now the dahlias are...

 The Ninebark flowers are turning into their beautiful red seed heads.  I love this with the feathery plumes of Goatsbeard. I replanted this...

  The label on this peony called it Red.  I call it a very bright purple!

 I love the blooms on this mature Ninebark.  If memory serves me right, this guy is about 8 years old and has never been cut back.  I find t...