@Weedwhacker Thank you Sandy. I love being outside in my flower beds and gardens even when I am weeding. There is always so much to do. I am getting a little behind now that the veggies are ripening and I am canning and freezing.
Name: Linda Omaha, N.E (Zone 5b) Always room to plant one more!
Jeanne, have you had to battle Japanese Beetles this season, I am in Omaha and they are awful. And I just adore your gardens, beyond beautiful!
I always want to cry when winter is going to come, I want it to be flower season all year! Thanks for sharing all those pretty pictures, you are really
great at flower gardening I can sure tell.
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because they have roses!
@freedombel Thank you for your kind words. I love my flowers and decorating my beds. To be truthful, there has been so much work this year battling the weeds and grass growing where I don't want it, that I am half way happy to see winter come so I can rest up. Although, I really don't like the cold and sometimes large snowfalls that we get. I just wish that winter didn't last so long.
I have not had any problems with Japanese beetles this year. I have been battling wasps. My DH and I have both been stung by them. He is really allergic to them and so far, I am not.
Name: Linda Omaha, N.E (Zone 5b) Always room to plant one more!
Next spring me and my husband both plan on being retire, then we can dedicate more time to the yard....happily! Can hardly
wait! I have such grand plans for next spring. And you are lucky you did not have the Japanese Beetles....I am always hoping
the neighbors around here are as vigilant as I am so it can be under control. I imagine yo need to rest up, I can tell by the looks of it
you have worked very hard to keep it looking nice, well done!
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because they have roses!
@Reine I am glad that you liked my flowers. I still have work to do in my garden area which is on the north side of our yard. We have bought the posts and rails for the 2-rail fence to put around my 8 raised bed flower garden but have not gotten to it yet due to the hot, humid weather and now all the rain is keeping us from working on it. The playground needs to get seeded down with grass seed. I used to have wood chips in it but have decided to go back to grass. Between the playground and my garden shed I wanted to put a Pergula or something similar but this spring I planted my peppers and vining plants there. Now I have to wait until I harvest my pumpkins, squash, and Indian Corn. I still have the area in front of my garden shed that needs work. I need to decide what I want growing on both sides of the walk way. I probably won't get the majority of this side of the yard done until next year. I will post some pictures soon.
Name: Sandy B. Ford River Twp, Michigan UP (Zone 4b) (Zone 4b-maybe 5a)
Wouldn't it be something if we could make a flower bed, plant it just the way we want, and then not have to do any more work on it?? THAT's the flower garden that I need
“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight." ~ Albert Schweitzer C/F temp conversion
Name: Reine Cleveland, Texas (Zone 9a) On the 3rd day God created plants.
@gardenglassgems My sister and I put our property up for sale. Half way through a 3 year contract, we've decided we don't want to sell. So I am so ready to add some flowers, shrubs and such in the ground.
We have 4 ½ acres and most of it is wooded and will most likely stay that way, but I'll do one area around my home at a time. Sure would like some lovely flowers to enjoy like you and others have.
It's been a while since I have posted here so I am going to add pictures of what is blooming in my Iowa flower beds. I am not one for posting the names of the plants I am showing. So I hope you enjoy the blooms anyway. This area is right in front of the house. I have dedicated each end of this bed to my parents. The flag pole center was my very first flower bed after we built our home.
I can't wait until the Lilies bloom in this first bed. I would like to move this creeping phlox to my road bank after it is done blooming.
Here are some of the Tulips that are blooming in the back yard along the back fence.
There is a Clematis behind these first Tulips that will bloom this year. Can't wait.
More pictures of Tulips as they open up. I hope you enjoyed by blooms.
I haven't posted anything here since 4/27 so I am going to try to do a little updating.
May, 2017 photos:
June 2017 photos:
Well, that is pretty much it for photos of my flowers to date. My next post will be of my flower beds and my new projects that are completed or still in progress. I hope you enjoyed my blooms.
Here are some of my flower beds taken so far this year. Some have not had the mulch replenished yet.
1st pic taken 5/17/2016/2nd taken 4/17/2017 a work in progress. I am planting mostly Iris here besides a few other plants already there. This is behind the "Outhouse garden" along the horse pasture.
Outhouse garden taken 4/25/2017/2nd pic taken 6/12/2017 (date on pic is wrong by a month)
Ferris wheel garden also taken on 6/12/2017//Dump Rake Garden
Driveway South bed
These next 4 pictures are the front of the house from the front deck to the corner.
Front NW corner and Hosta Shade Bed
Front Deck Garden. My girlfriends gave me the sign "Gardener's spend all day in their beds" so I painted an old barn board and put the sign on it and hung it here. I added a little area to this front bed by adding the rock boarder.
This is the flower bed that runs along the whole backyard. It starts at the horse pasture and goes to the 4-rail fence that runs along the north side of our acreage where our 2-rail veggie raised bed garden and our 2 rail Flower raised bed gardens and Asparagus patches are located. The 2nd picture is the 2-rail Flower raised bed area in the NE corner of the back yard.
This my latest project. We moved the garden shed closer to the 2-rail veggie raised garden area this spring. I decided to start fixing this area up. This is no completed yet.
Gotta go for now but will continue at a later date. Hope you have enjoyed a tour of my gardens.
