Emelle, your cannas are a stand out color.
My daughter did not end up picking that University, even though both her Dad and I went there and the campus is like one huge garden: Michigan State University.
Instead she has chosen to go to University of MIchigan which is in higher standing, but is pretty much surrounded by a city. :o(
Crocus and Glory of the snow are finally blooming. :o)
toofew
I'll show you my gardens if you show me you Yours. :o)
QuillGordon, Where did you get your bird houses? Love them! I am just starting to put bird house into my gardens (I have so many bird who fight for place to stay)
toofew-
I adore your arbor- I'd like to do something similar. I'm going to show yours to my husband and see what we can come up with. I live in the woods so I'm leaning to one a bit more rustic.
This photo is from last june- 2006. Astilbe in the forground and sweet cicely in the back.
Bird houses :
My husband made a lot of bird houses ,for starlings .The holes had to be drilled a certain size so that other birds could not get in and harm the starling babies .
Starlings do a wonderful job in feeding on grass grubs which do so much damage to our pasture land by destroying the grass roots ,so we encourage them.
I am not sure if I have shown this picture before somewhere -forgive me if I have ,but I think it is so funny
Zoe our cat .
Great photo of the cat!
European Starlings here are a major nuissance -- people try to protect the native birds from them and from English House Sparrows like you were trying to protect your starlings in NZ!
There's a great thread started over in the Wildlife Gardening forum with designs and links to designs for birdhouses.
Thank you for the link ,It sounds really good ,I hope I can access it ,as there are many forums that are only available to subscribed members .I really want to make a bird feeder ,with winter approaching ,so will look out for advice there too .
I am astonished at your story about the European starlings -I would think they are the same as ours ,as the early settlers to NZ brought English birds with them .They are terribly messy ,trying to make their untidy nests in barns ,even in tractor engines .They don't seem to be a threat to other birds here ,as magpies and minahs are .
Emelle.
Emelle, you had me chuckling in my coffee with your cat picture. Zoe is beautiful by the way.
toofew
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I spilled my coffee! That cat picture is priceless!!!
Edited to add, Dale, keep posting your pictures. I'm so jealous I could spit, but they are an inspiration. Thanks for sharing your beauty with us.
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Thanks Killer
Emelle, I post the same pictures on several threads, only a couple of times has anyone ever written about that. A good photo should be shared-repeatedly.
Dale, what is the tree you posted the picture of at 5:40 am?
Daltri, Tabubeia umbellata.
Dale, I love the riot of color in Post #3428143!
toofew, notmartha, gonative - I WANT your gardens!!
I only hope mine turn out as lovely as yours have. Your pictures are absloutely gorgeous, very inspiring. I shall go give a pep talk to my gardens, to encourage them to turn out like yours!
Here is a pic of a buddleia that seeded itself right among some wild verbascum I'd let grow. Talk about natural.
Thanks WGG!
Blue, and what a nice combination of color, the purple and yellow!
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Your pictures are just gorgeous -a sight for tired eyes .Being Autumn here ,I have just cleared up tatty dahlias ,scruffy other bits and pieces of my garden ,so it is such an inspiration to see the wonderful new life in bloom -I really love the archway - how inviting !The mauve picket colour gives a soft effect that I like.
Emelle .
Way to go, girlgroup! I love the purple fence! It harmonizes so well w/ the surroundings.
girlgroup....yours are lovely!!! wow, can i come there to live?(grin)
dale, as usual yours are beeeutiful:)
GGG, very inviting, can I invite my self over for some iced tea?
I invited myself over to GGG's and her place is amazing.. She's actually gardening the house next door too!! It's just a sweet place and very inspiring :)
Dale.. you always have the loveliest pics.. Is that last one Gallardia? Mines starting to bloom right now.. One of the very first plants I grew from seed and I bought the seed on Ebay! :)
I took some pics today.. need to load them up!! :)
Susan
Susan, yes it is gaillardia. I love taking and sharing photos.
dale a, you can invite yourself over anytime, for anything as long as I can come and see your garden the next day! The swaths of hot colors you have are fantastic.
Soulgardenlove, you know you are very welcome any time.
Today my beautiful new herbs came today to fill in some of those "holes". Much of my cottage garden is made up of herbs and roses.
GGG
Lovely, lovely, lovely, everyone!!!
GGG, here is my house, I live in half of a duplex (a rental) my main garden is 12X15, with a small strip along side. Also, if you look in my journal I have a photo tour.
99% of the photos I post are elsewhere-places I work, public gardens, homes that I drive by.....
I have my camera with me and when I see something that catches my eye....
I will even walk up onto the lawn and snap a shot, like this orchid. It is 6' around, in a container under a tree, must have had 50 spikes on it. It was put there at least 20 yrs ago
I always take multiple shots, then edit for the permanent collection I have.
I have file folders on the computer, Flowers, Compositions, Commercial, Cottage, Croton, Begonias, Trees, etc etc
I have a file called DG Garden, every photo I put on this site is in there.
I would guess that I take about 30 photos every day
Some are what I call 'head shots' - trying to capture some element/quality of a plant.
Some are shot a to get a design element.
Some are taken for 'point of view'
And some I take, then look at and say "what was I thinking?"
