Thursday, July 21, 2011

Thursday Thirteen - A Bountiful Year

                                                      Spring blooms on my Buckeye tree



Amorphophallus Konjac's stinky "corpse" flowers


                                         A Centranthus perennial in my front cottage garden


Some weeds can be easy to tolerate


                                                     Hellebores thrive in my shade garden


Another shade lover whose name escapes me


               My "Crimson Queen" Japanese maple needed a trim by the time the lilac bloomed



                                                          My miniature backyard pagoda



                               "Hen-and-chicks" succulents thriving in a gap in my retaining wall



                              Another view of my Centranthus next to once-colored Columbine


                        Lilly-of-the-Valley is a persistent perennial around since before we moved in



                                                           A dandelion at the local park



Hollyhocks about to bloom were prettier before they blossomed and the heat zapped their zeal

9 comments:

  1. That's so beautiful! This time of year in Texas everything is burned to a crisp. Totally jealous.

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  2. Your garden is so beautiful! I especially love your pagoda and Buckeye tree. I've got to work on getting my garden in better shape (translation: put the hubby on yard duty).

    Thanks for sharing!

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  3. Prairie fleabane is definitely one of the more tolerable weeds. We have a lot of it around here, though it is not as prevelent this year as the Queen Anne's Lace, Wild Chickory, or Wild Parsnip. And then, of course, there's my old nemesis ragweed... Lovely photos, Darla!

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  4. So many folks are giving me garden envy. I want one! *grin*

    These are just gorgeous, thanks so much for sharing them, Darla!

    Happy #T13,

    ~Xakara
    13 Paragraphs Worlds Collide

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  5. My garden is dried up and looks terrible. I totally having garden envy looking at your pics.

    Janice~

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  6. Lovely - thanks for sharing. I'm still doing weed triage in my yard. Your gardens are an inspiration.

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  7. Thank you, dears! I do need to do some weeding, though. Sigh... I wish the weather would cool off.

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  8. Nice...I have something somewhat like your pagoda! I love putting things like that in my garden, but then again I love to added rusty stuff too.....and then there is the rubber critters like the lizard!

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, Pam! You're such an inspiration. My garden looks nowhere near this nice now. I didn't keep up on weeding and the weather was not conducive to pretty flowers. Be well!

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