Ok, here it is... a picture or more, about the flowers that showed up!
OklaMoni
7 years ago
I have some growing in my yard after all... and I want to share. If anyone wants some yellow Iris, or some "naked ladies", let me know. I can bring some.
Notice the greens from the naked ladies in the back ground?
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Comments (33)Jon, how proud you must be for your friends. I can imagine it's quite a milestone in the career of a professional gardener to be so recognized at a show like the Chelsea's. I'm afraid that the Chelsea Flower Show doesn't get much coverage here in the U.S., on television or otherwise. I can tell you that the gnomes did make the New York Times though. And so it goes. For those of us who are interested it can be frustrating finding a good source of information. One would naturally think that the RHS Chelsea website would be a good source, but its site really doesn't contain much in-depth information and even the RHS blogs are rather silent on the topic. When I had a subscription to the BBC's Garden Illustrated, there I could find a bit of information. Not a great deal of information though and it always seemed that you really had to be there. Or even better, be connected to those who move in the fabulous British gardening circles. I've come across some of your work here on GardenWeb and on HMF. And the pictures of the gardens you've created are some of the most beautiful I've ever seen. So congratulations to you also on your gorgeous achievements....See MoreButterflies are starting to show up here
Comments (5)Mike, I believe as you do that we butterfly folk try to do our best in a lot of areas. Probably a lot of us are into nature in general. I know I for one also like birds (remind me of that when they're singing and waking me up early in the morning :)) and all sorts of creatures great and small. Even moving a rock and finding a small salamander has me looking in wonder. Yes, I'm also tired of the harm done by people and sometimes wish I were Wonder Woman or someone like that who could put an end to things that aren't right. I'd like to right all of the wrongs. It's sad how many people just don't care about things. I've seen so many selfish, uncaring people I could cry. They just go along in their merry little lives seeming to not have a care in the world and I worry about something as "little" as a caterpillar. I never heard the Garth Brooks song you're referring to. Maybe I can look it up online so I can hear it or at least look up the lyrics. I can really relate to that quote from part of the song. As fast as the world is going downhill, I sometimes feel like I don't want to be a part of things. I march to the beat of my own drum and if the rest of the world doesn't like it, that's too bad. I feel like I'm the one saving things while others are destroying it. Not everyone but a lot. to do our best is all we can do! I'm firmly convinceed that we butterfly folk as a whole try to do our best in a lot of areas and probably do a lot more good than most people. I'm so tired of all the harm done by so many people and groups to other people and to our natural world. I recently heard Phil do a Garth Brooks masterpiece on American Idol. I think it was called "Changes". The theme of the song is that people doing good are often told that their efforts will make no difference and the line that moved me in the song is "I do this so the world will not change me." Sherry, I bet you're glad to be back into raising cats full force. :) Oh, and I bet your bathroom looks just wonderful. You and your husband are lucky that you tolerate each others projects. ;-) Most people would probably think that people like us are insane. lol I don't have cats or plants in my bathroom, but plants line almost every windowsill downstairs and are sitting all over our back porch. My husband used to get really upset with my quirks, but I think after almost 27 years of being together he's finally accepted that I am who I am and I won't change. I want to do some good in the world and if it means having a loaded-to-the-gills back porch and projects sitting around in the process of being finished, then that's the way it is. Btw, I can't thank you enough for all of the Tropical Milkweed seeds that you sent me. I have some really nice-looking plants! They aren't flowering yet, but I bet I'll have flowers on some of them in another few weeks. Cathy...See MoreMaybe a little more acceptance here? Im new and my story is...
Comments (39)Ladyvixen, we were in our 30's in 1985 when we bought our 1898 house. Looking back, we were very young. Neither my husband nor I had any skills or knowledge at all about how to work on houses. All we knew was that our house was nearly intact, was very inexpensive, and that we loved it. I had always wanted an old house, and had been buying things such as light fixtures, hardware, etc., for years before we bought the house. We bought the house "as is". Fortunately we were both employed and had no children. We had to hire almost everything done, and it needed a lot of work. We did not take a vacation for years. Then came a time of around a year or two that my husband was either unemployed or underemployed. During that time, the house just didn't get worked on. We didn't care that we lived in an unfinished house; in fact, I thought it was beautiful from day one. We have a corner in the dining room where all the little balls the cats play with end up, but you don't notice the slope otherwise. It has taken us over 25 years, and we are almost finished, but still have some work to do. We should have it finished by now, but are in our 60's now and do like to take a vacation now and then. Also we sometimes didn't have work done even when we had the money, because we were tired of the mess of having things torn up. We lived with a practically non-existent kitchen until about 2004. I said all along that this house was my dream house. People would look at me funny, but it was and still is my dream house. Don't let others talk you out of your dream. Make the decision based on what you want and what you think you can handle. If you think you can live with an unfinished house for years, go for it. If you have to have everything finished and perfect, you shouldn't buy an old house. I have the ablility to not even see the unfinished stuff until we get ready to do something about it. I meant this to be an encouragement to you, but reading back on it, maybe this will scare you because it has taken us so long. Don't let that scare you--you can do it faster than we did! I will try to attach some pictures if I can....See MoreMore garden pictures to cheer everyone up - long shots of areas
Comments (20)Nancy, your large Japanese Maple is spectacular. I'm partial to multiple trunk trees. We had a Jacaranda when we lived in SoCal, and I miss it. I hope your daughter's family enjoys living in Kirkland. She's in luck with a great climate for gardening. We're on the opposite side of the state, not far from the Idaho line and Canadian border, north of Spokane. It's nothing like the moist, fertile green side. It's dry over here with blistering hot summers and cold, snowy winters. Your camellia is a delicate beauty. Love the yellow stamens against the soft pink petals....See More
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