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Wildflower Garden
I came home to more blooms. This garden does just keeps on giving.
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Roses
The day after I posted what was blooming, I came outside and the roses had bloomed, just like that! They’re magnificent!
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April Blooms
I have been out cleaning up some of the beds. Unfortunately I can do maybe an hour at a time. This week not so much, it’s been in the 90’s all week. The weather didn’t stop me from taking pictures of what’s blooming. Notice all of the Azaleas in the background.
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Wildflower Garden Bed II
When I looked at the garden bed today I noticed that all of the Dianthus, “Green Ball,” as described in previous text are all changing colors. So they are not “Green Ball” they are Dianthus, “Sweet William.” I thought by cutting and putting in a vase, that would maybe stop them from changing colors but…
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Wildflower Garden Bed
New flowers seem to be blooming every week. I first saw the green spiky flower, which when I googled it, was Dianthus barbarous, “Green Ball.” Today I looked and there was a pink flower and when I got closer it was the Dianthus, “Sweet William.” The pink flowers were coming out of the green spikes…
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Bloom Timeline ‘26
We returned from NC on Monday to see the seasons newest blooms here in my garden in VA. In the wildflower garden that I planted from seed last year there was a new flower I wasn’t familiar with. I looked it up and the name is Erysimum allionii, common name Siberian Wallflower. It is a…
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All My Fault
On Friday, March 20 for the first time I felt better, almost back to normal, (my normal with MS). I kept busy all morning; I called three doctors and made appointments, paid bills, did some laundry and felt good. It was also the first day that I got out of the wheelchair and started using…
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1st. Bouquet of the Year.
The Daffodils and Lenten Roses are from my garden. (look closely or enlarge to see the Lenten Roses). I bought the Alstroemeria. Lifts my mood all day long.
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Cleaning Garden Beds
This week the weather shot up to 79 and 85 yesterday. Today woke up at 68 and going down to 47 with rain and snow showers, that’s March. Anyway not feeling back to myself yet I decided I would start with cleaning up one of the smaller beds. This bed has Hellebore’s, (Lenten Rose), Crape…
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Daffodils in N. Carolina
While we were in NC, I was happy to see that the daffodils I planted in the fall were up and blooming. I planted four clumps that I had taken from my two huge ones in VA. Every year they spread so big and I’m able to dig up, (in the early fall) and replant…
