nice shots everyone!
Spring Blooms - Part 13
I'm due August 15th but I also have a daughter who is 11 months old and still isn't walking so she wants to be carried. Needless to say, I've been sticking her in the stroller as much as possible. I try to get out and garden when she takes her naps!
Hardy Gladiolus.
wild rose
Oops here's the Blue Campanula.
Nice shots, Dyane. Wow, that's pretty close. You'll have your hands full!! Do you know the gender?
Thank you, Victor.
Yes, I know I'm having another girl. They'll be 13 months apart. I'd like more kids so I feel like I can't space them out too far, getting older every day. I want to have enough energy for all of them. Plus, I'll need an army of weeders for all these flower beds!
Omg Dyane, I knew you were pregnant but I didn't realize that your other was only 11mo! Wow, and you still manage to get outside in the heat and garden. You're a real trooper, that's for sure!
Yes, I second that! Wow - we stopped at two and are glad we did. You have courage!
Good luck with the little stranger Dyan
I am looking for a White Baptisia, anybody seen one?
Great shots. You gals are teaching this ole dog some new tricks....with the flowers mixed in the various pots. Believe it or not I never really played with many flowers. Now you and others have got me even growing seed and cuttings. I still can not memorize the latin so they remain pretty somethings. Works for me.
Congrats to the new baby in the hanger. I promise I will not do that or excite one either.
We raised our two and had a great trip. Now we enjoy the grandchildren. That's our seconds on children. I wish the new little one the best and to moma too.
I like your term docgip.... pretty somethings! Works for me.
Grief Doc..."baby in the hanger"? That's a new one on me and I'm an L&D nurse.
Joanne, I think your roses look beautiful. Ours lasted about a minute and a half in the heat.
Dyane (sp?), your photos are beautiful and the fact that you have any time to garden is impressive. I have two that are nine and one half months apart (double deduction in '86). It was challenging, but we loved having those babies after having an "only" for eleven years. It is the same marriage and was a very good decision in retrospect.
Laurel
"in the hanger" Slipped up there....bet you all have not been around air force couples. :)
Dad was Army but a control tower operator....Mom had one in the hanger in 1942,1946,1947,1948,1951,1954, and 1960.
Nice pics Dyane.
My youngest brother and sister are 11 months apart.
A few blooms from today.
Yellow columbine
Cinnamon Twist rose
Actually my Dad was a flight engineer in the Army Air Corps...which service were you in? I think you were on the cusp of the change. He belongs to a forum of old Air Corps guys. How cool is that at eighty nine?
I never knew I was "in the hanger". I thought I was a "bun in the oven" :). Sorry Dyane. The good news is the L&D census is always low in August.
L
Rio Samba bud
Boy Celeste, what was that Mom of your's flying? Stupid question.
L
And the pansy bed from Highland Park back around Mother's Day.
Yarrow 'Paprika' (Achillea-sp?)
LOL Laurel...I pretty much followed her suit. 1978,79,80,82 and 1986. It's a hereditary thing I think.
Maybe I should throw in a flower this time.
Foxtail Lily, Desert Candle (Eremurus--sp?) not sure what else they are commonly called. At this point in their flowering, it's my favorite...as the flowers (florets) blossom, from the bottom, up...they start to look a little ragged.
Nice shots Deb, Thom and Celeste. Great colors on those roses, Deb. Here is clem Patricia Ann Fretwell in a single and my noid 'native' rose that looks a lot like New Dawn.
Victor--Don't yell at me, lol, it's my only Clematis, and I have no idea what so ever what it is...but I like it. It was a box store buy.
Rooguchi growing through oakleaf hydrangea.
You're forgiven, Thom - this time! This is Oso Easy Peachy Cream.
Happy Asiatics.
And inside - busy ants...
Thanks Victor. I like the clem and rose combo - and of course Oso Easy is gorgeous.
Clem growing through heptacodium. Thanks Deb!
I wish I'd been more brave when younger Celeste. I chose a career 'til it was almost too late. Glad we made three.
L
Serotina honeysuckle.
Niobe growing through paw paw.
This is a no id peony...it's on the smaller size...but cute. I had the tag, I think one of the tree rats relocated it while planting their corn :-/
Very nice peony, Thom. It's noid time, I guess. Here's my noid rose.
I love your noids....I have a huge collection of them myself.
Rugosa
Grown from seed, Petunia 'Blue Merlin'
I found some new things growing in a new bed - figured weeds, but hadn't seen them before. I pulled one up today to find a corn kernel at the roots. I started feeding the squirrels corn cobs to deter them from the bird seed. So now I have sunflowers and corn planted by the critters.