Tuesday, July 29, 2008

This Year's Flower Garden

I'm finally seeing some progress in my flower garden this year! We haven't had much hot weather at all, so the growing has been S-L-O-W.

Below we have morning glories (Grandpa Ott variety - purple heirloom) climbing up one of the trellises that Dad made . In front of them is a row of zinnias, and in front of them a row of larkspur and rudbekia (which is a yellow flower related to black-eyed-susans).

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On the other side we have some wind-blown sweet peas climbing up another trellis. In front of them is a row of a different kind of zinnia and in front of them is another row of larkspur. In the big gray pot next to the sweet peas is a climbing pink jasmine plant that we've had for a few years.

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Close-up of the zinnias:

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Asters

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Zinnia

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Larkspur

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And my first sunflower that bloomed!

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We have more flowers than this, but that's all the pics I have for now!

Monday, May 12, 2008

Signs of Spring

The infrared mix sunflowers I planted last week started to come up yesterday (on Mother's Day)!


The delphiniums that took soooooo long to grow last year have exploded recently. They're going to produce a TON of flowers this spring.