Do you like orange flowers like the Orange Jubilee shrub? I do. Orange Jubilee (Tecoma x ‘Orange Jubilee’) Which is why I have the orange flowering beauty in my garden. Clusters of orange, tubular flowers hang from this large shrub from spring through fall, making the hummingbirds in my garden very happy. Learn more about this beautiful […]
I am sharing with you a few of my favorite sunflower close-up flower photographs this week. Here is one that brightens up my garden summer and into early fall… Sunflower It is hard to find a flower that grows so large and that is easy to grow. I plant mine from seed each spring and then […]
The dog days of summer have arrived, which means that I spend most of my time indoors. So, I spend time on my garden writing, knitting, trying new recipes and catching up on reading some great books. I also decided to tackle my photo library. It is very large and filled with gardening photos, covering […]
Life has been quite busy, which has kept me out of the garden much of the time. Of course, the with the hot temperatures of summer, I probably wouldn’t be spending a lot of time outdoors, regardless of how busy I have been. I did spend some time weeding my vegetable garden last week and […]
Do you enjoy going out into the garden in summer? I don’t! I admit to sometimes neglecting my garden when the temperatures go above the century mark. My aversion to gardening in a furnace is one of the reasons that I like to use desert-adapted plants that don’t need much attention. One of my favorite fuss-free […]
I am always on the lookout for new ways to display annual flowers. I’ll do anything from transforming old, antiques into planters to using brightly-colored containers. On a recent visit to the Green Bay Botanical Gardens in Wisconsin, I saw this creative use of an old, decaying tree trunk… What a great example of a […]
Do you like red yucca (Hesperaloe parvifolia)? Landscapes throughout the desert southwest come alive in spring and early summer as the coral-colored blooms of red yucca burst forth. There are a few reasons that this succulent is a popular plant. For one, its grass-like foliage add texture to the garden, even when not in flower. […]
Do you have a list of favorite plants for your Southwestern garden? I do. Today, I’d like to share with you about one of my favorite shrubs, desert ruellia (Ruellia peninsularis). It has beautiful, light-green foliage and purple flowers that appear off an on throughout the year, with the heaviest bloom occurring in spring. Unlike its cousin […]
Do you have friends with whom you share a common interest? I do. My friend and fellow blogger, Amy Andrychowicz of Get Busy Gardening loves gardening as much as I do. Amy and I have spent time together in Arizona and later in Florida. Last week, while on a road trip through the Midwest, I made sure […]
It’s a beautiful summer day outside, yet my mind is on fall and Halloween? Why? Because, this is what I discovered growing in my vegetable garden this morning… Okay, maybe you cannot see it yet, but once you part the leaves… You can see a white pumpkin happily growing. I’m so excited to have a pumpkin growing […]
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