Hi! May you have a wonder-filled remainder of the week!
To Paint or Not To Paint-- cause once you do it there is paint on it
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I normally leave metal to its own devices in the yard. That frame I painted for my clematis and rose looks so nice, I have been wondering about a couple of other pieces. This bicycle was a Mother's day gift some years ago. It blends in. It is in a darker area because of being under the tree and the tree trunk. I had tried different types of flowers but the roots have too little dirt. So I thought Sedum! Sedum does not have extensive root systems. So the bike will not have flowers or color to brighten it up. Tell me what you think would you paint it Ocean Mist?

Previous Years Pictures

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Present



Any thoughts on this being a Take and Make? Color? Better types of plants?

May your heart be painted with love and happiness!

My thoughts are it looks wonderful and "fits" in just like it is. I have a child's chaise lounge that was painted and all of the paint came off. Now I have to decide whether or not to repaint it! I guess it depends on whether you want to go to all the work and possibly have to do it again in the future. Like I said, I personally love it just the way it is and the setting is beautiful

for your thoughts. Your sentiments are exactly why I am torn about doing it.. I need a little more color up there, might think of some other ways to bring in color!

May you have a joyful weekend!

What about putting some bright colored annuals in the pots? That would really add pops of color.

Ginny -- The pictures of the pots may be deceiving. They are pretty small. Flowers have no real room to grow . Sedum has done the best. It is a very small decorative bike. I agree annuals are great for adding pops of color!

May happiness surround you!

What about painting the pots bright colors and maybe some polka dots or something?

Ginny-- That thought has crossed my mind. You might have a winner there! I like polka dots!


May you be blessed!

Hi! May many things put joy in your step, a smile on your face, and much love in your heart!

My Blue Eyes
Here are my four daylilies that best "show" some blue whenever you see them. Lavender Blue Baby is reliable. It blooms every year but some year's are better than others. Last year it had a fantastic year. This year it bloomed OK, but I also divided off a fan and moved it late season. Destined to See was new this year but had a wonderfully long bloom season. Chasing Shadows was new this year and did OK because it had a last minute transplant. Ra Hansen has been reliable and steady with beautiful coloring. It blooms every year.




********Lavender Blue Baby******************Destined To See*****


********Chasing Shadows********************Ra Hansen***********
Blue is always a great addition! Except in delphiniums it is ever elusive!



I give thanks to God for yesterday's miracle and I pray that you are the recipient of many miracles!

Some of my favorite colors

Hi! May today treat you especially nice!

I really have neat full garden shots and tour of how I started this garden that I want to share. Copied and pasted pictures, removing identifying objects such as address, and then sending copies to a new file, but the address keeps coming back.
One little step to fix and soon I will be doing more garden tours.

But I found Roses of Snow looking so beautiful this morning, best ever! How would you know that? So I will recap her year so far. Starting with today and working backwards. Last picture would have been one of her first blooms.




My most favorite is the first photo. Way more gorgeous in real life, lots of depth to the coloring. My second favorite was the bottom left, the bloom was that shiny. And, yes one morning she was purplish. All of them gorgeous to me. Roses in Snow
The only changes I make are a crop. No setting changes, no Photoshop. I feel that way you can compare my pictures to each other.

My Julia Coneflowers are growing!


The Marigolds are zooming! How much click and see!


This next group is in the background of the above picture.


This is one of the Marigolds stems. It runs on the ground for 8 to 10 inches before going upright. So it would be really tall over 4 ft.
The stem is thicker than my thumb.


How big will these Marigolds get? They may have peaked. 100 degree days are not kind to them. I do not dead head because this could be my seed batch. They were planted in March. Very few will survive July and August to see the fall. I know dead- heading them would save their energy, but if I loose the plant to heat then I have zero seeds.

May your garden and home grow more beautiful each day!

Beautiful and I agree on the best blooms for Roses in the Snow. What are you feeding those marigolds, steaks

Hi! May this be an exceptionally calm and peaceful week!

Sometimes we almost miss the neatest things. I was intent on photographing Dixie Land Band, and capturing that center I find so fascinating. When someone came to see what all the fuss was about!



Two new lilium opened up.
The first one -- do not think it's Vermeer. The second one possible but also questionable. The last picture is Vermeer.



Lilium in your garden I have been most successful with LA hybrid or Asiatic. Lilium does not have to be expensive. If you have time to add to your garden buy a mixed bag of Asiatics.
Sam's Club, Walmart, most inexpensive Aldi . Because you will not know what you have, I recommend two ways.
One way is In ground make a lily patch! Plant 7 or 8 liliy bulbs about 6 inches from each other. It makes a nice green group that can bloom any color. I have a couple of these. I recommend that as they bloom, tie yarn around the bottom of the stem. A different color for each variety. In the fall you can move them around to be together based on color. I recommend separate and move. One lily will dominate your patch and after a few years you could lose the others. The second way is to pot or container garden with them. In an 18 inch pot you can put 3 along with annuals, etc. Yarn to mark colors again and then in fall put bulbs in the ground.
Try for each variety to have 3 bulbs. That looks the best to start.

Liliums are tough! They can reproduce by seed, by scale, or by bulbils or bulblets. They want to grow!





May love and happiness surround you!

Sharon it's absolutely beautiful Great idea on the lilies. Loving all your blooms

Yes, they want to grow...and the squirrels in my yard want to EAT.

Hi! May everyday forward see you more richly blessed!

I am going to start to throw in some oldie but goodie pictures of how this all started.
It started with an empty lot, but not as clean and as empty as this. This is is after two weeks of working on the lot. Getting the lot ready for my daughters home to come.




Delivery Day

My first two projects were painting inside and redoing these chairs. We bought 4 chairs for $5.00 at a local thrift store. I painted and covered, luckily it was only stapling and tacking over.



The next outside shot was Christmas, pretty bare outside, only had added decks at this point.
No signs of a garden. It was cozy inside.



Thank you for taking a peek at the first year. Not much of anything as you can see, but a dream of something to come. I hope you keep coming back to see my oldies and my new activities!

May you find happiness and contentment in your home and family! You are loved!

I love to see transformations

Ginny! It has been slightly challenging going between
photographs taken on 5 different devices. Then going between a computer and tablet. I have had to edit in pictures between what's on the computer or on the tablet. Can't wait until I get caught up!
Like that ever happens.

May you have an exceptionally nice week!

Never Have to many lilies. Asiatics and LAs for your area. Maybe as LO or an asiapet.

Sharon I go between my iPhone, iPad, iMac and HP desktop at work and have pictures on all and now my desktop won't import my pics from my iPad and iPhone. Spend 1/2 hour on apple support and they can't figure it out