I love peonies. They are beautiful, lovely vibrant colors in pink, rose, carmine and white, huge and fragrant. As a bonus the plants have lovely shapes and foliage, making them perfect plants to use as the foundation for your garden. I don't know what variety this one is. It's frilly, and … [Read more...]
Misty Mornings Mid May in Michigan
Yesterday morning I looked out the back window and saw this beautiful view of mist raising from the Kalamazoo river valley a mile away to cover the trees and most of the field behind our house. The spiderwebs sparkled with raindrops and the faint misty sunshine. Everything looked shrouded in … [Read more...]
What To Do With the Potted Daffodils
This is the time of year stores have potted flowers at ridiculously low prices like this pot of miniature daffodils Dave bought me this week, lightly fragrant and a beautiful spot of color. This little pot has six or seven blooms, all with the golden yellow trumpets and pure yellow perianth, … [Read more...]
Sweet Williams – Beautiful Sun Loving Flowers Ready to Bloom Next Year
My Dad always enjoyed the Sweet Williams my Mom planted. The flowers are big heads of pink, rose, white, crimson and bicolors and smell like cloves. Mom always grew them and once we got a garden I did too. Sweet Williams are supposed to be biennials in Michigan, but we had plants survive for … [Read more...]
Bleeding Heart – Old Fashioned Beauty for Shade Gardens
Years ago my Mom had a bleeding heart that she found in the woods when we were camping. We dug it up and put it in the shady part of the garden where it bloomed in the spring and died back in the summer. I remember because it was pretty and she liked it and so did I. When Dave and I had our first … [Read more...]